All Things Retro
The gloves are off. Piko Interactive, as we’ve mentioned in the past, is a company which acquires the IP of other firms – such as those which are no longer in business – and repackages them for re-release, either on their existing system or modern-day ones. We’ve already had three packs of Piko-owned games for…
40 years of Alan Sugar’s baby. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC home computer – and it almost slipped us by. Were it not for a tweet (spotted half a day after publication) by Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner, this momentous occasion might have gone unnoticed, at least by the Time Extension…
“The spiritual sequel for the Maze of Galious”. Modern-day MSX2 title Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is getting a Steam release, it has been confirmed. Developed by UnEpic Games, it’s pitched as a “spiritual sequel for the Maze of Galious” and was released on MSX2 hardware in physical form a while back. Read…
“I would like to make that totally clear”. Australian FPGA developer Wizzo – the man behind the brilliant TapTo NFC system – has revealed that he has left the team behind the upcoming MARS FPGA platform. Posting on Reddit, Wizzo said: Read the full article on timeextension.com “I would like to make that totally clear”….
You can also slow down time. Open-source Tomb Raider engine TR1X has just been given a bunch of enhancements, including an “experimental” 60 FPS mode. The Windows, Mac and Linux-based engine has just been updated to version 4.0, which includes the new 60 FPS mode – as well as the option to slow down the…
“I don’t bother shopping for retro games in big Japanese cities anymore”. A Japanese resident has lamented the state of Kyoto’s retro gaming stores, blaming foreign travellers for bleeding the country’s stock of vintage games. Kyoto-based American researcher Oliver Jia posted images of his local Surugaya, a store which sells retro games along with other…
Ufouria! Aero the Acro-Bat 2! Blaster Master: Enemy Below! The first Evercade Sunsoft Collection was a decent mix of titles, with highlights being Blaster Master, Mr. Gimmick and Journey To Silius. This second pack offers more of the same, with some welcome surprises to boot. The included games are: Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Distribution begins on April 18th. During today’s livestream, Hamster Corporation announced that it will be bringing Namco’s falling block puzzler Emeraldia to both Nintendo Switch & PS4 on April 18th (as reported by Famitsu!). Emeraldia was originally released in the arcades back in 1992 for Namco’s NA-1 hardware (the same hardware used for Exvania, Cosmo…
“I’m very happy with the result”. For the longest time, people doubted that the MiSTer FPGA system could ever host an N64 core – but that has now become a reality. As we reported a while back, Robert Peip / FPGAzumSpass has been working tirelessly on an N64 core for MiSTer, and it recently got…
The gaming world is perverse, as are its constituents… and what makes it all so perverse? Perceptions. Allow me to start by digressing. When I first arrived at Hewlett Packard, a rosy-cheeked budding youth fresh out of college, I was rather a wild and crazy sort. To the dismay of some, the delight of others…