Retro Gaming News
“We’ve seen that this work can go better than ours”. Back in 2022, we reported on the fact that a homebrew coder by the name of Retro Encoder was porting Data East’s legendary 1988 RoboCop arcade game to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The project went somewhat quiet until very recently, when Retro Encoder…
‘Dacholer’ & ‘Kick Boy’ arrive tomorrow. Following last week’s release of the early Taito game Steel Worker, Hamster seems to be sticking with the theme of the early 80s, revealing that it will be reissuing Nichibutsu’s football-inspired action games Dacholer and Kick Boy later this week. Both games were originally released in arcades back in…
‘R-Type DX’ is being resurrected later this year. In the run up to Tokyo Game Show, City Connection has revealed that it will be bringing out a new version of Bits Studios’ 1999 Game Boy Color title R-Type DX for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) later this year. The…
Now you’re playing with power. The Evercade EXP and Evercade VS are now a few years old, but both have already had a redesign in 2024, swapping out the white colour scheme of the original models for a grey-and-blue approach, known as ‘Neon Retro’. Manufacturer Blaze has now given both machines a third spruce-up, this…
From its debut in 1979, the Atari 8-bit computer family set a new standard for home computing by combining cutting-edge graphics, rich sound capabilities, and a design philosophy rooted in arcade gaming expertise. Powered by a trio of custom chips – ANTIC, GTIA, and POKEY – these machines delivered features like hardware sprites, smooth multi-directional…
Heavyweight Champ was released by Sega in 1976. A museum based in Bologna, Italy has recently come into possession of the blueprints to a Sega game from the 1970s that has long been considered “lost” (the video game historian/preservationist Damiano Gerli recently informed us). Heavyweight Champ was a boxing game that Sega originally released in…
Sweepstakes-style platforms have been attracting greater attention across the United States, and the reasons are easier to understand once you look closely. These platforms came about as an alternative to traditional payment-based casino gaming, and they work by using virtual currencies to keep everything accessible. Players have been looking for options that feel easy to…
‘Super Mario World Rumbled’ launches next week. A new ROM hack for the SNES classic Super Mario World has just been released, giving players the chance to experience the 16-bit title with rumble support. Super Mario World Rumbled is the most recent project from KandoWontu (who is probably best known for his work on Starfox…
“They said, ‘We want to do Phoenix Wright’. I was like, ‘Really? That’s not a name’. Yesterday, we published a feature on Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, in which we dug into how Capcom’s 2005 Nintendo DS remake was localised for the West. As part of this, we heard a lot of interesting stories about the…
…and you don’t need to crane your neck! It’s fair to say that Nintendo surprised everyone when it recently announced it was bringing Virtual Boy games to Nintendo Switch Online alongside a replica accessory of the ill-fated tabletop console in February of next year. Notable for being one of the company’s rare missteps in the…