Retro Gaming News
“I was surprised at how it felt almost exactly like playing back then”. Aqua Jet is available now as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archive range, bringing Namco’s 1996 jet ski coin-op to the home for the very first time. Arcade buff @yggdrasill_SIM / AEX-RYU has revealed that he was involved with play testing the Arcade…
Rave Racer? Time Crisis? Alpine Racer? Cast your vote! One of the most welcome retro-related events of 2025 so far has to be Hamster’s recent Arcade Archives releases, which now include 3D games made for Namco’s legendary System 22 arcade board. So far, we’ve had Ridge Racer (1993), Air Combat 22 (1995) and Aqua Jet…
“A high-difficulty 3D dungeon RPG”. Hummingbird Soft’s PC-88 horror RPG Diable De Laplace is coming to Nintendo Switch next week, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. First launching in 1987, Diable De Laplace (which is also referred to in various places online as Laplace No Mia and Laplace’s Demon) originally debuted…
Toaplan’s classic flies again. Toaplan’s Tiger-Heli is rightly regarded as one of the most influential shmups of all time, so it’s somewhat surprising that it hasn’t been ported to more home consoles. For many years, Micronics’ much-maligned NES port was the only way to experience it outside of the arcade, and while it has made…
‘Project X: Light Years’ is a successor to 1992 Amiga shoot ’em up. Over the weekend, Team17 have officially given the thumbs up to Project X: Light Years — a new follow-up to its 1992 horizontal shooter for Amiga that is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. When the campaign’s organizer, the “big Amiga fan” Retronix originally…
Over a decade has passed since the deal was struck. Remember ‘90s Arcade Racer? Back in 2013, it showed almost limitless promise, and was successfully crowdfunded and lined up for release on modern systems, including the Wii U. Described by developer Antonis Pelekanos as a love letter to Sega’s Daytona USA, ’90s Arcade Racer never…
“We’re doing everything we can to fix this as soon as possible”. French retro game publisher Broke Studio has announced that it is suspending all orders to the United States following new customs regulations introduced between the US and Europe. Broke Studio releases physical games for old systems, and helped bring the utterly brilliant Changeable…
‘Cubix’ launched earlier this month as part of YRGB 2025. As you may or may not already know, last week saw the start of YRGB 2025, a retro game development competition for the ZX Spectrum computer scheduled to last between August 7th to August 20th. As a result, we’ve recently seen a large increase in…
“Clear PCBs feel illegal”. I’ve been around long enough to have seen the Game Boy modding scene rise from a tiny niche of the retro gaming community to one of its most exciting sectors, but even I’m speechless at how beautiful this new device from @natalie_thenerd has turned out (thanks, Tom’s Hardware). The self-taught modder…
The Settlers II arrives on Amiga computers this October. Blue Byte Software’s beloved city builder The Settlers II is finally being released on the Amiga later this year, almost 30 years after skipping the platform. The Settlers series originally began on the Amiga, with the release of 1993’s The Settlers. However, when it came time…