Retro Gaming News
For gamers who prefer the classics, settling down for a session on a retro computer or opting to play a former favorite on a modern-day console appeals. While many games of today are hogging the limelight, there is still an appetite for some of yesteryear’s classics. In fact, the options are extensive these days. Although…
Available to pre-order now from Strictly Limited Games. Last month, Giants Software, the developer behind the hugely successful Farming Simulator series, announced via a trailer on its YouTube channel that it would be releasing Farming Simulator 16-Bit — a new retro demake of the classic sim for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. And it’s now…
King’s Field was released for Japanese feature phones in 2004. The feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo has announced that a long-lost i-Mode version of From Software’s PS1 dungeon crawler King’s Field has now been preserved giving players the chance to experience an obscure part of the company’s history for themselves. King’s Field, in case you’re unfamiliar,…
A new demo of ‘MSX Wings’ has just been released. A remarkable demo has just been released online for a new MSX2+ game that pays tribute to Video System’s arcade Sonic Wings / Aero Fighters series. MSX Wings is the work of the Brazilian fan developer André Silva and was first teased on the MSX.org…
OK, maybe not soon, but tonight I heard something very interesting about a possible pinball machine based on the characters “Jay and Silent Bob.” Many of you will be familiar with the director / actor Kevin Smith. His big debut came in 1994 with the movie Clerks. He went on to create a number…
Update 3 adds Sigil II to the main game and some minor modding improvements. During last year’s QuakeCon event in August, Id Software, Bethesda, and Nightdive Studios surprised everyone when they decided to release a new feature-rich version of DOOM + DOOM II for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S,…
BioMenace was originally released back in 1993 for MS-DOS computers. Apogee Software is a company that will probably be best known to most people for creating games like Duke Nukem and for publishing early Id Software titles like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D. But that isn’t all it had to offer the world of gaming….
From the developer CRT Games. Update : As of today, CRT Games’ remake of Snow Bros 2 (Snow Bros. 2: Special) is now available across Nintendo Switch and Steam. As you may have already seen from our previous report on the Steam Demo, this new remake lets people choose between playing with either revamped visuals…
The port is based on the WonderSwan remake of the 1989 Game Boy title. Yesterday, it was announced that the feature phone preservation community had managed to find a way to locate and preserve a previously lost i-Mode port of the first-ever SaGa game, Makai Toushi SaGa — a title that is perhaps better known…
“We plan to share the results later”. NEC’s PC-FX was supposed to be the glorious successor to the PC Engine / TG-16, but it had the misfortune of launching around the same time as the PS1 and Saturn and went down as something of a commercial bomb. This was due in no small part to…