Retro Gaming News
Before RPGs, 1986,to strong narrative. Sir-Tech’s Wizardry from 1981 dumped players into a massive 10-floor dungeon with little more than a sentence of congratulatory text for beating the game. The first Ultima came out the same year and switched players from a first-person perspective in dungeons to a quasi bird’s-eye view when venturing the overworld,…
How a tiny British studio helped Nintendo fly in 3D. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. 30 years ago, British engineering ingenuity and Japanese design savvy elegantly combined to…
Bride Hard. Mega Cat Studios has announced that it is bringing the top-down shooter Lethal Wedding to Genesis / Mega Drive via a Kickstarter campaign. Described as “a love letter to 16-bit shooter classics like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and action flicks from the ’80s and ’90s,” Lethal Wedding sees you assuming the role of…
Wizardry 1-5 are now owned by Atari, though Drecom still retains its rights. Atari has just announced the acquisition of “the complete and exclusive rights to the first five Wizardry games and their underlying IP”. This includes Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (1982), Wizardry III: Legacy…
Jupiter Fracture Title Screen In case you haven’t heard, the classic Commodore has undergone a rebirth. Retro computer YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson managed to gather the support and financing to purchase the bits and pieces of Commodore held by other companies and bring them together into the new Commodore International Corporation. The first major…
Saberman is on the ball again for the retro gaming video community, as just recently he’s uploaded a new gameplay video of a Commodore 64 game called ‘ Spider Maze 2 ‘ which was created by The New Dimension in co-op with Blazon. This game developed using Kick Assembler, CBMPRGStudio V4.7.0 and Exomizer V3.1.2 , is…
‘Arkanoid’ & ‘MagMax’ are this week’s “Archives” releases. Taito’s 1986 brick-breaking arcade classic Arkanoid is coming to PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S later this week, on May 7th, 2026, as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2. Designed by Akira Fujita and Hiroshi “ONIJUST” Tsujino, Arkanoid builds on the…
The console was scheduled to release on June 16th, 2026. Retro Games Ltd has revealed that the A1200 — its upcoming plug-and-play system based on the original Amiga 1200 — has been delayed again. Originally teased back in 2023, the “full-size Amiga replica” was scheduled to launch in 2024 but was delayed due to a…
Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. A promising new sci-fi action arcade platformer for the NES has recently launched on Kickstarter and has already hit its funding target, with 18 days left in its campaign. BioCreeps is a new project from the pixel artist Nate Ehlers, who is co-designing the game alongside the experienced NES programmer Łukasz…
“They were… hesitant to use people from overseas”. Speaking exclusively to Time Extension, Tom Shiraiwa, a former localisation lead at Capcom’s Osaka offices, recently offered insight into the localisation of the 1996 survival-horror classic Resident Evil, including a potential explanation as to why the game’s dialogue ended up being so laughably bad. Despite its reputation…