Retro Gaming News
“Unfortunately it has nothing to do with your favorite game”. The publisher ININ Games has recently announced it will soon be revealing a new “old” game it has been working on bringing back, but it seems, in an effort to keep expectations in check, it has warned Shenmue fans not to get too excited as…
“Stan’s vision of people running at each other is fun but ‘unique!’”. Created by Japanese-born American comic book artist Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo is a cult comic creation that originally debuted all the way back in 1984. First featured as a comic strip in Steve Gallacci’s anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics, and later in several issues of…
“Was hungover yesterday so I fired up GameMaker”. Andreas Yiannikaris, lead designer on titles such as OlliOlli 2 and Rollerdrome, has posted footage of a mash-up title he’s currently tinkering around with in GameMaker, and it’s looking very promising indeed. Lightgun Dungeon is described by Yiannikaris as “Dungeon Master x House of the Dead” and…
Only a single copy of TRIPITAKA is known to exist. When you’re talking about obscure video games, they don’t come much more obscure than 1993’s Cosmology of Kyoto, developed by Japanese studio SoftEdge. A nonlinear CD-ROM adventure, the game was lucky enough to get a Western release in 1994, and while it wasn’t commercially successful,…
‘Raw Fists’ is a new game from indie developer Joel Strange. If the constant new stories in the media about AI have got you fearing a Terminator-style uprising, then we have the perfect game for you — a promising new 8-bit-style action platformer from the indie developer and three LD Jam-winner Joel Strange, which allows…
Creator of the Sega SDK. GenesisFan64—a Mexican homebrew coder who worked across pretty much all of Sega’s consoles—has passed away, we’re sad to report. The news was broken on social media a few days ago and was spotted by @PigsyRetro, another Sega-focused homebrew developer who is currently hard at work porting Castlevania: Symphony of the…
This month’s Old School Gamer Magazine has been shipped. In the issue, I interview the owner of Arcade 92, Michael Lepsch. The article is a short version of the interview I did with him back in March of 2025. Here is the full interview with all the questions asked. Don’t forget to see the new…
“I still get people contacting me about them”. If you’re based in the UK and were alive when the original PlayStation launched, then you’ll almost certainly be aware of the various ‘Demo’ discs which were bundled with the system and given away with copies of the UK’s Official PlayStation Magazine. These discs were essential items…
Zvitor does it again. Zvitor, a prolific creator of unofficial fighting games, has just released his remake of Konami’s coin-op X-Men title from the early ’90s. Like the developer’s other projects, it’s been made using the Open Beats of Rage engine and pulls together characters from other X-Men releases while maintaining the same graphical style….
Released back in 2002. We’ve seen quite a few retro games get the decompilation treatment recently, but there’s a new work-in-progress project that is attempting to do something a little different. The process of decompilation basically turns ‘executable’ code back into human-readable source code, and zeldaret is doing just that with the N64 emulator used…