Retro News

“Composed and designed to run on actual Amiga computers”. German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware. He’s already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it’s the…

From Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) and so-bin (Overlord). While Wizardry was created by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead and is recognised as one of the foundational releases in the history of the RPG, the franchise has taken on a life of its own in Japan, where it was equally influential and spawned its own…

“This is the last go to keep it open”. A British amusement arcade is reopening this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to secure its future. Highest Score Arcade, located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, opened last August. However, it recently closed its doors and posted “Game Over” messages on social media, leading many to assume it was…

Steam version is still on track, however. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe Games has revealed that the download console versions of Earthion have been delayed until September. A social media post confirmed that “the release date for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, and Xbox Series XIS has been postponed from July 31st to mid-September.” Read the full…

Partnerships confirmed with Ubisoft, Atari, and Argonaut. Despite some well-founded concerns over the business practices of its founder Palmer Luckey, ModRetro appears to have enjoyed plenty of success with its FPGA-based Game Boy Color clone, the Chromatic. The handheld has been sold out for a while, but ModRetro has today revealed that it is “back…

“Finally, thirty-four years later, we got an answer”. If you were one of the many kids who picked up Battletoads when it launched on NES back in 1991, you might recall gazing at the back of the box and wondering about which stage the bottom-right screenshot was taken from. While it looks like level 7…

It will get its claws into you. There are plenty of Sega Genesis / Mega Drive games out there that can claim to be the best looking on the console, and now we have another to add to that list in the form of DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar, a side-scrolling action title developed by BitBeamCannon…

‘Alternate Scarlet Symphony’ is out now. If you’re someone who knows the layout of the PlayStation 1 title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night like the back of your hand and is looking for a new challenge, then you may be interested to learn about Alternate Scarlet Symphony. This is a brand new mod from the…

“It’s a knockout!”. A new fanmade port of the 2D run ‘n gun platformer Cuphead has just been released for the Nintendo Wii U, featuring compatibility for the Nintendo Wiimote, Nunchuk, and the Classic & Pro Controllers. As you’ll probably already be aware, Cuphead never got an official release on the Wii U back in…