Retro Gaming News
The game is inspired by early Chinese folk beliefs. The first-time game developer Weiwei Leung and publisher Incube8 Games have officially launched the Kickstarter for Aaling the Ghost, a promising new Game Boy Color RPG inspired by the Han Dynasty funerary arts and the Qu Yuan poem “Summons of the Soul” (Thanks RetroDodo!) The game…
The finest games on Commodore’s beloved 16-bit system. While gaming history tends to be dominated by home consoles, it’s important to remember that, at one point, many players got their fix from a home computer. During the ’80s and early ’90s, powerful 16-bit machines like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga went toe-to-toe with the…
For the ridiculous price of ¥999,900! As spotted by SuddenDesu on Twitter earlier this week, an extremely rare and undumped piece of Mega Drive software called WonderMidi has just gone on sale in Japan on Yahoo Auctions for an eye-watering price of ¥999,900 (roughly £5,462/$6,765). Wonder Midi was a Victor-developed program created for the special…
The Sega Pluto visits Sega Europe’s HQ. Back in 2013, a forum poster named Super Magnetic blew the collective minds of the Sega community when they revealed the existence of the Sega Pluto, an unreleased Sega console from the 1990s that was essentially a cost-reduced Sega Saturn with built-in NetLink. Only two prototypes are believed…
Pre-orders are open now! If you’re one of those people who still can’t get enough of playing Tetris on the Game Boy all these years later, then we’ve got some great news to share with you. Matt Hughson, the developer of the incredible NES homebrew From Below, has just announced the launch of From Below…
“There was no connection between Game Yaroze and Net Yaroze”. You likely already know about Sony’s Net Yaroze project. It was a well-publicised global endeavour which attempted to allow PlayStation 1 enthusiasts the opportunity to create games for the system. Buying in to the project provided users with a black Net Yaroze dev kit, plus…
You can help by backing its Kickstarter. A Metal Gear fan named Zac Fitzsimmons has just launched a new Kickstarter to fund his research into deconstructing the Metal Gear D — the iconic bipedal tank that features on the box art of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and that also appeared as one of the…
Featuring Hi-Score SRAM & difficulty tweaks. SNK’s Mega Drive / Genesis port of Art of Fighting is a lot harder than your typical fighting game, thanks to its punishing AI and challenging single-player campaign. But a new ROM hack has recently set out to change just that, improving the number of options available so that…
The game features music from Nobuo Uematsu. Update : The download link for the English fan translation of Dynami Tracer is now available on romhacking.net. So if you want to play one of Square’s more obscure titles from the ’90s, now’s your chance! You can grab the patch here. Original Story : Another “lost” Squaresoft…
“Social media has become absolutely useless for sharing anything meaningful”. As well as being a Time Extension contributor, Mikolai Napieralski runs Forgotten Worlds, a website about video game magazines. It’s not a magazine about video game magazines, and he’s here to tell you about it, and several other examples… My COVID fever dream has a…