Retro Gaming News
“I have no employees, I have no investors”. The rise of retro gaming has led to a flood of aftermarket mods and optional equipment, all of which is designed to make playing your classic games as enjoyable as possible. These range from everything from Optical Drive Emulators to AV hubs and next-gen memory cards, and…
Rockman DASH: Great Adventure on 5 Islands was originally released in 2008. Back in February 2024, we reported that feature phone preservationists had managed to archive a complete copy of the Japanese-exclusive Mega Man Legends game, Rockman DASH: Great Adventure on 5 Islands. And now, a little over a year later, it appears that work…
“Probably one of the most major finds we did in a while”. Nintendo’s Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom (SNES to you and me) was a fascinating piece of equipment—as you’ll be aware if you’ve read our exhaustive feature on it. Using satellites to broadcast data, the Satellaview was home to some unique titles, many…
This afternoon, Zen Studios, maker of the Pinball FX virtual pinball game, revealed that the iconic 1988 Williams pinball machine Banzai Run will be the second of three upcoming tables that it is releasing in December. Zen previously revealed the first table in the pack as the 1989 Williams game Earthshaker. Table three in…
Wizordum, the retro first-person spellcaster developed by Emberheart Games and published by Apogee Entertainment, summons a 1.0 launch for PC via Steam on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, for $19.99. As one of the last surviving mages, traverse seven new levels on a journey to eradicate Chaos for good in this magical finale of Wizordum. Battle arcane foes aboard…
Serani Poji won a”Streaming Hit Award” from the record label Nippon Crown. 25 years after the release of the Japanese-exclusive lifestyle-sim Roommania #203, Sega has published a message on social media about the obscure title, announcing that the “fictitious” band from the Dreamcast game, Serani Poji, has just won an award from the record label…
That’s according to a new interview with Shuhei Yoshida. In a new interview with the Japanese publication AV Watch, the former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida revealed that Sucker Punch’s 2020 action-adventure Ghost of Tsushima marked a sizeable achievement for Sony’s Japanese localization team. Remarkably, according to Yoshida, it marked the first foreign first-party PlayStation game…
‘Aurascope’ is the debut title from the indie developer Nick Oztok. It seems like not a week goes by anymore without us encountering a new indie title that immediately shoots to the top of our most anticipated titles, with the latest example of this being Nick Oztok’s Sonic & Mario-inspired platformer Aurascope, which is currently…
Ozaki worked on Phantasy Star III with her future husband. Given that the value of human-created art is being fiercely debated online at the moment, it seems like a good time to shine a light on an artist who isn’t as famous as some within the games industry—in fact, Toyonaka Ozaki’s real name isn’t even…
Vector5 Games who was behind titles such as Space Station 23, Laserscape, Jump Out, and our personal favorite Santa’s Workout has recently released a new Commodore 64 game of ‘Zookeeper’. A Columns/Match 3 style of game that has you matching the required amount of animals in a Zoo to complete the level. In light of this…