Retro Gaming News
Ninja Baseball League-Man is back! Chances are, if I asked people to name an Irem arcade game, their first thought wouldn’t be Ninja Baseball League-Man (otherwise known in the West as Ninja Baseball Bat Man). Designed as Irem’s answer to Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games, the game rather famously didn’t do too well…
A Design That Never Needed a Rewrite Charles Fey built the Liberty Bell in the back of his San Francisco workshop in 1895: three spinning reels, a handful of symbols, a single payline, and a mechanism simple enough to run on nothing but springs and gravity. According to Britannica’s history of the format, Fey’s design…
Once your classic cartridge collection reaches a certain size, you’ll discover you’re finding few new cartridges at thrift stores. In order to “get their fix,” so to speak, many collectors start collecting label variations to keep their number of “finds” up. “Label variations” simply means different types of labels on the same game. For Colecovision…
“All the living things in this world await your awakening”. Clever River Games appears to be teasing a re-release of Quintet’s SNES RPG Terranigma, which launched on the SNES back in 1995. Created by a team that includes Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (director, designer and writer), Kamui Fujiwara (artist) and Reiko Takebayashi (writer), Terranigma is part of…
Powerful enough for PS2 emulation, authentic enough for SNES. Over the past few years, retro handhelds have felt less and less retro. Powerful new chipsets and drivers have pushed Android handheld performance into PC handheld territory, with widescreen panels to match. The Retroid Pocket Nova ($244) is different. It combines the original vision for the…
You can download ‘Mega Man X Regenesis’ for free. Mega Man X: Regenesis, a brand new fan game inspired by Capcom’s Mega Man X series, has just been released and is now available as a free download. Mega Man X: Regenesis is “set in an alternate timeline following the events of Mega Man X” where…
Pre-orders are going fast. A short while back, Polymega maker Playmaji announced that it was refreshing the base unit of its modular retro gaming console to improve emulation performance. The Polymega first launched in 2021, but it has struggled to reach as many people as it deserves to, thanks to manufacturing issues and stock shortages….
“I like to think I’ve helped some insanely talented people along in their careers.”. The games industry legend Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Ultima Underworld, Disney Epic Mickey) has announced his retirement from games in a new statement on LinkedIn. Spector first rose to prominence in the world of video games in the early-to-mid ’90s as…
“Somehow, someone put Breath of The Wild on 3DS”. A fan-made demake of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has appeared out of nowhere online, predictably causing quite a kerfuffle. As spotted by @nintygametube on social media, the game currently only works on 3DS emulators and not actual hardware. Read the full article…
“Charge us $15 for it, we will pay it!”. Konami has announced that it is terminating the smartphone title Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, triggering a wave of pleas from fans to preserve it in some shape or form. Released on Android and iOS as a Canadian exclusive in September 2019, the game initially relied on…