Retro Gaming News
Good evening you fine retro gamers! Thanks to a recent heads up through Facebook, we’ve been told that JuanGM has released the rather enjoyable arcade game of ‘Bonsai Quest’ for the ZX Spectrum. A game in which not only play as a Ninja, but you are secretly trained in the art of ninjutsu, on a…
Yesterday, American Pinball announced that it is going to build 100 units of a new “Classic” Edition of its Galactic Tank Force pinball machine in 2025. The new Classic version of the game will have an MSRP of $7,995, which is $1,000 less than the previous lowest trim level of the game, the “Deluxe” Edition….
“Make your Game Boy cooler to use”. If you’re someone who regularly finds themselves nostalgic for the days of Windows 3.1, you may be interested to learn about the release of Windows GBS — a new homebrew title developed for the Nintendo Game Boy that aims to bring some of its best features to the…
Was written by Final Fantasy alumni Kenji Terada. The Casio Loopy is one of many consoles released in the ’90s which failed to make the impact intended by its manufacturer. Like the PC-FX, Bandai Pippin and FM Towns Marty, it was exclusive to Japan, but was unique in that it included a built-in thermal printer…
Was planned for Amiga, Mega Drive and PC. We’ve now got fresh information and images of the cancelled Warhammer racing game Kult of Speed, thanks to Games That Weren’t and Steve Cook. Planned for release by Electronic Arts in 1994 on the Amiga, Mega Drive and MS-DOS PC, the game features Ork racers on motorcycles…
The video shows footage of an earlier build of the game. Given its incredible influence on the world of gaming, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that fans of Super Mario 64 have spent the last couple of decades doing all they can to find out more about the development of the…
“This is my present to the Xeno-community!”. A Xenosaga fan named CycloneFox has just released a fan recreation of the Japan-exclusive mobile title Xenosaga Pied Piper for PC & Mac OS. The fan recreation had previously been available as a demo on itch.io but has since hit version 1.0, as of two days ago. It…
“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”. Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s. While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to…
On March 1st, Paragon 5 opened up its remix contest for the classic Game Boy Color game Project S-11, which has recently seen a rerelease for the Chromatic by ModRetro. The original 8-bit soundtrack, by Finnish composers Jonne Valtonen and Aleksi Eeben, has a strong reputation in its own right beyond the top-down shooter…
Live broadcast and sale have also taken place. Japanese company City Connection turns 20 this year, and has a series of releases and events planned to mark the occasion. Taking its name from a Jaleco title, City Connection managed to pick up Jaleco’s IP when its parent company Game Yarou declared bankruptcy in 2014. Since…