Retro Gaming News
On June 24th, Tassei Denki made an initial offering for the G’AIM’E Plug & Play Time Crisis Gun, a device which can play Time Crisis and other lightgun games of its era on a modern television display. Tassei Denki launched its initial offering on Kickstarter here with a fairly modest initial funding request of…
…so we’d better stick with Hogs of War. The headline news with Evercade’s Gremlin Collection 2 is undoubtedly the inclusion of Loaded and Re-Loaded, two top-down PS1 shooters which seem to perfectly capture the feeling of the mid-’90s gaming landscape, at least in the West. The first Loaded launched soon after the original PlayStation arrived…
I do love a good roguelike, it’s one of my favorite genres to play, especially when I’m delving deep into dark dungeons looking for decent loot and avoiding many of the nasties contained within. So if like me, you like that sort of gaming experience. Then make sure to check out Syntaxerrorsoftware’s upcoming Commodore 64 game…
Michiru Yamane has been involved with the Castlevania series since 1994’s Bloodlines. If you’ve spent a good amount of time playing Castlevania games in the past, there’s a high probability you’ve probably encountered Michiru Yamane’s music in the past — even if you don’t happen to know her name. The acclaimed Japanese composer has been…
Could Nintendo have made the system a global hit? I recently covered the glorious ’90s relic that was the Barcode Battler on this very site, and it apparently inspired one of our “readers” to do something a little out of the ordinary. Not long after our piece went live, a package arrived at Time Extension…
Was confirm last year by the company’s transmedia boss. Sega has teased the imminent arrival of a new retail store in Japan’s capital. Like Nintendo, Sega is keen to leverage its brand beyond the realm of video games, and brick-and-mortar stores like this are part of that strategy. Read the full article on timeextension.com Was…
‘Rockman The Puzzle Battle’ & ‘Galaga Kai’. It seems like it’s pretty much every other day now that the Japanese feature phone preservation community shares an exciting new announcement about a previously lost games being discovered and dumped online. Earlier this week, for instance, we published a short article about a rare Lost In Blue…
Taito’s ‘Crazy Balloon’ lands on Switch & PS4 this week. Hamster has revealed the next Arcade Archives release it will be releasing is Taito’s 1980s’ balloon-based title, Crazy Balloon, which notably sees players trying to navigate a thorny maze without popping. The game will be released on Nintendo Switch and PS4 tomorrow (June 26th) and…
“Mark the date, spread the word far and wide”. Based on FPGA technology and designed to run both past and next-generation Spectrum software, the ZX Spectrum Next may be a niche proposition, but it has found plenty of fans in Sinclair fandom—the only problem is that it’s incredibly hard to get hold of one as…
3DSen hits version 1.0. After 10 years of development, the unique NES emulator 3DSen has finally reached left Steam Early Access, its developer Geod Studio recently confirmed on social media. If you’ve never heard of 3DSen before, it is essentially a novel way of re-experiencing your favourite NES titles from the past in a brand…