Retro Gaming News
Launched back in 2005. The 2005 PS2 title Cowboy Bebop: Tsuioku no Serenade (Cowboy Bebop: Serenade Of Reminiscence) has been translated into English by SonicMan69. Developed by Chime and published by Bandai, the game is an action title based on the popular anime series. It focuses on a totally original storyline and allows players to…
‘Irena: Metal Genesis Fury’ was first crowdfunded back in 2021. White Ninja Studio, the developers of troubled Kickstarter project Irena: Metal Genesis Fury, have offered a new update on the project (as well as a backer-exclusive demo), following the loss of its publishers Mega Cat Studios and Broke Studio. Irena: Metal Genesis Fury, in case…
Just keep your expectations in check. When Bitmap Bureau recently announced He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, it made dreams come true for an entire generation of 40-something adults raised on the classic ’80s Saturday morning cartoon series / toy line / cross-media franchise. A 2D side-scrolling fighting game in…
Well, it’s controller is, at least. We’ve already had Nintendo Lego consoles in the shape of the NES and (soon) the Game Boy, but it would seem that the Danish toymaker is teaming up with Sega for its next block-based video game hardware tribute. As spotted by itavix_bricks on Instagram, a new set has leaked…
“Austin Powers…completely changed the perception of our game”. Monolith Productions’s 1960s’-inspired first-person shooter game The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a title whose legend only grows year on year. Originally released in the year 2000, for PC, the spy-themed, gadget-filled adventure was an important project for the now shuttered Washington studio, helping to give…
After 42 years, someone has finally worked out a way to make a mini version of my favorite ’80s console, and it involves an AMOLED screen Preview Video While ’80s rivals such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision fought for domination of the TV, the Vectrex offered gamers something different – it came with its own built-in screen capable of producing…
“There was no internet, no email, no Excel…”. Back in the early ’90s, Sega and Novotrade International released Ecco The Dolphin — a unique underwater adventure for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis starring a cute bottlenose dolphin and featuring a pretty bonkers plot about sunken cities, extraterrestrials, and time travelling devices. Originally hitting North…
A nifty tribute to an RPG classic. A Japanese merchandise company called Hakkokudo has today released a new keychain, based on the classic Nihon Falcom RPG series Ys. The acrylic keychain, which measures 50×55×10mm, is modelled after Adol Christin, the main protagonist of the Ys series, and is intended to be the first in a…
A sharing session with more info is scheduled for tomorrow. In a social media post earlier today, AYANEO announced that its upcoming “budget-friendly” handheld, the Konkr Pocket Fit will launch with a starting price of less than $369. It was at the end of August this year that the Chinese hardware manufacturer first announced in…
“Transmission incoming”. If you cast your mind back to March, you might remember hearing that the game publisher Acclaim was being brought back from the dead, with the help of the WWE legend Jeff Jarrett. The news ended up making headlines both here and elsewhere, with a lot of people getting excited about what this…