Retro Gaming News
“I wonder if they had already had some of the Cammy stuff recorded by someone else”. If you look up who voiced the Street Fighter II character Cammy in the 1996 arcade game X-Men vs. Street Fighter you’ll find a large number of websites claiming Susan Hart to be the voice of the character and…
Known in Japan as Wild Fang. Tecmo’s 1989 belt scroller Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang has come to MiSTer FPGA and Analogue Pocket, thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. “This belt-scrolling action game was created by the same team as Ninja Gaiden,” says the FPGA developer. “An interesting aspect of the game is that the protagonist fights…
Kickstarter launches later this month. We hate using lazy comparisons, but there’s no getting around the fact that the upcoming indie title Monsterpatch is basically what happens when you combine a farming sim with Pocket Monsters. Developed by Sean Young (not the one from Blade Runner and Dune, we assume), Monsterpatch is described as a…
During 2019 Psytronik Software released(link) a C64 game by Megastyle called ‘ Mancave ‘; a game which follows the hilarious adventures of Richard Morningwood who has the unfortunate task of gathering up the pages of some rather naughty magazines that have been nabbed from his secret stash by his pesky kids. Well if you were…
Who are you going to vote for? The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York yesterday announced the 12 finalists that will potentially be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in May, after receiving thousands of entries for consideration. The list, which is available on the Strong Museum’s website, contains a wide range…
“It’s a really happy surprise”. Back in 1999, developer Sacnoth released the RPG Koudelka on PS1. Created, produced, written and directed by former Square staffer Hiroki Kikuta (who also composed the music), the game is unique in that it’s set in Wales, and its dialogue is spoken entirely in English. Kikuta—who recently reunited with Square…
The Game Boy title was originally released in 1991. The retro publisher InCube8 Games and British developer Elite are teaming up to reissue the 1991 Game Boy title Dragon’s Lair: The Legend both physically and digitally. The game, in case you’ve never heard of it, is based on the hugely popular 1983 arcade machine, developed…
“It’s time to break the habit”. Retro accessory maker Hyperkin has issued an apology on social media after a series of fumbled launches and heavily delayed releases. The company has an unfortunate track record of announcing products and then going quiet on them for ages; for example, the RetroN GX was revealed back in 2022…
“SF2 was so popular that people were quitting their day jobs to open arcades”. Legendary Street Fighter player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has been speaking about the incredible impact Street Fighter II had on the games industry back in the early ’90s and feels that we haven’t witnessed anything like it since. The sequel to…
One neat aspect of Boss Fight books is that despite their all having the same basic premise, the exact content of these books differs widely from author to author, and the Silent Hill 2 book by Mike Drucker is no exception. As expected, the book deals with the historical context and production of Silent…