Retro Gaming News
Check out those controllers! Atari and Plaion are relaunching the 2600+ to celebrate 45 years of one of the most iconic characters in video game history: Pac-Man. Launching on October 31st, the Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition is the same as the basic model, but comes in a new case colourway and ships alongside a Pac-Man…
As you’re all probably aware, Limited Run Games is the industry leader in producing and distributing premium physical video games. Founded in 2015, the team has published over 1,000 physical games and soundtracks in addition to winning several awards for their bespoke Collector’s Editions. They live and breathe their craft on a daily basis, and after many…
A fool and his money are easily parted. If you value the human spirit’s boundless creativity and resourcefulness, then the tiresome trend of Generative AI is probably getting on your nerves right now. Sure, AI has its uses – it’s already helping us gain enhanced understanding of the worlds of science and medicine, for example…
¡Ay, caramba! When the developer Vicarious Visions released its Game Boy Advance port of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 in 2001, it ended up taking a lot of video game critics by surprise. Utilizing an impressive isometric engine, with a real-time rendered 3D character, it far exceeded many people’s expectations of what a Tony Hawk…
Known as Target Earth in the US. The 1990 Genesis / Mega Drive title Assault Suit Leynos has been blessed with a new fan-made patch which translates the dialogue and restores much of the content that was cut from the Western release, Target Earth. The original Western version was censored and dumbed down, with story…
The final release date is still a mystery though. After three years of silence, a new 4 minute trailer has just dropped for the Doom mod, Fallout: Bakersfield, and it is looking absolute incredible from the footage we’ve seen of it so far. Fallout: Bakersfield, in case you haven’t heard of it, is Saur X‘s…
14 different palette options! Six MSU-1 soundtracks! The welcome trend of NES titles getting native ports to the SNES continues, and it’s the turn of Konami’s gothic epic Castlevania. Originally released under the name Akumajō Dracula on the Famicom Disk System in September 1986 (it would come to the NES as Castlevania in 1987), this…
“A modern handheld Super Nintendo with ALL the bells and whistles”. It never ceases to amaze me how modders, hackers and homebrew enthusiasts continue to push the envelope when it comes to retro gaming tech. Take the incredibly talented YveltalGriffin, for example; not only are they part of the team which gave us the “Wii-on-a-keychain”…
Deathchase and Renegade updates on the way. The Kickstarter campaign for the third production run of the FPGA-based Spectrum Next has gotten off to an incredible start, raising over £1.2 million in less than two days – and blasting past its funding goal of £250,000. In fact, it passed its funding target in just over…
Fenrir Lite ODE announced, “better/faster/stronger Fenrir” in the works. While using original media will always be the most authentic way of experiencing classic games, in recent years, we’ve seen a rise in the number of Optical Drive Emulators (ODEs) being produced for CD-based consoles – and Saturn has been blessed with several great options. One…