Retro Gaming News
“We paid special attention to the death scenes…”. Following its original release on the Apple II computer back in 1989, Broderbund and Jordan Mechner’s cinematic platforming classic Prince of Persia went on to receive countless ports to other machines. However, very few of these are as well regarded as its 1992 Super Famicom/SNES port from…
“It is not possible for us as a retailer to absorb these costs in the long term”. Funstock, the online store run by Evercade maker Blaze, has announced that it is suspending US orders “until further notice.” The decision has been made due to “recent changes in the suspension of the De Minimis exemption for…
Check out The Realm Realm in Walsall. The arcade business is in a funny spot right now. While the glory days of the ’80s and ’90s are a distant memory, independent arcade operators are still plying their trade all over the world. Sure, we’ve had plenty of sad closures recently – not to mention financial…
“They basically forced the publisher to restart the game again”. When Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay released on PC and Xbox in 2004, the review scores for the game ended up being far higher than what many people had expected, with most simply assuming the title would be yet another mediocre film tie-in…
As of next year, developers will need to get verified. There’s a reason so many retro handheld makers have embraced Google’s Android OS over the years – not only is it a hotbed for advanced emulators, but it also allows the side-loading of unsigned and unverified apps, and this has allowed the emulation community to…
The company has cancelled support due to a “hardware-level compatibility issue”. In a statement on social media, the handheld manufacturer Retroid has announced that it’s new dual screen add-on won’t support the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, as previously suggested, due to the discovery of a “hardware-level compatibility issue”. When the Retroid Dual Screen first went…
C64 Ultimate Edition seems to be a hit with fans. Commodore CEO Christian Simpson (holding the C64) with Ultimate 64 Elite-II board creator Gideon Zweijtzer The revived Commodore has raised over $2 million via sales of its C64 Ultimate Edition computer, it has been revealed (thanks, Tom’s Hardware). Read the full article on timeextension.com C64…
“Oh baby I hear the blues a-callin, tossed salads and…”. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been announced as the 1983 “action game” Scrambled Egg, an early title from the Double Dragon developer Technōs Japan. The game is a single screen arcade title that is played inside of a maze, which sees you having to…
Infidelity reveals his next project. Coder Infidelity has produced some amazing NES-to-SNES native ports in the past, and his next venture will bring one of the console’s best-selling titles to the 16-bit system. Released at the height of TMNT fever in 1989, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an action platformer which has become notorious for…
“If I stayed at Sega any longer, l’d die soon”. The world of Japanese video game development has never been an easy one, but during the ’80s and ’90s it was especially harsh, at least for the staff of certain studios. As documented in Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak’s peerless ‘Untold History’ series of books,…