Retro Gaming News
“I was literally walking in yelling at the marketing department”. After the news was shared online earlier this year that Monolith would be closing its doors for good, there were a lot of tributes written about the studio’s 30-year-plus history. As you’d probably expect, many of these went on to celebrate the company’s involvement in…
Advanced reading. Ninty Media has already given us the GameBook and GameBook Color, and it is completing the trilogy with GameBook Advance, a crowdfunded tribute to Nintendo’s all-conquering 32-bit handheld. Over 550 people raised £42,568 to help make this particular book happen, and, in doing so, helped to secure talent such as former Nintendo Official…
There’s life in the old dog yet. The Wii U GamePad is surely one of Nintendo’s most contentious innovations. On one hand, it offered asymmetric gameplay possibilities that had never been witnessed before, and also allowed you to play games on the controller when the main TV was being used for something else—a feature which,…
‘Bomberman Puzzle Special’ was released for i-Mode phones. The i-Mode version of Hudson Soft’s 2008 mobile title Bomberman Puzzle Special has now been dumped and preserved, the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo has announced. Released in 2008, Bomberman Puzzle Special is a Sokoban-style puzzle game that acts as an expanded version of the 2003 i-Mode title…
Ryuku (AKA: Solitaire Poker) arrives this Thursday. Success’s arcade version of the card-based puzzle game Ryukyu has just been revealed as this week’s Arcade Archives release. It will be arriving on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on Thursday, May 22nd. Ryukyu is a game that was originally produced by the companies ASCII and Loginsoft for Japanese…
Gotta go fast, easy right maybe. Back in the 1990s, Sega’s popularity in the UK was so pronounced that it largely overshadowed Nintendo during both the 8 and 16-bit eras, and this dominance was perfectly illustrated by the company’s sponsorship of F1’s European Grand Prix at Donington Park in 1993. “It was a ‘floating’ Grand…
“It was difficult because it was me being called out”. The Silent Hill series has complex lore and an insanely detailed backstory, and this is a big part of why the franchise attracts such a passionate and devoted fanbase. However, that commitment can sometimes boil over into more questionable activity, and that’s something that former…
It even runs on real hardware. A Super Mario 64 modder has built their very own Minecraft-style voxel engine inside the classic N64 game’s engine, and it turns out, it’s even playable on a real Nintendo 64 console. Arthurtilly is the creator of popular ROM hacks like the Mario 64 Randomizer and SM64: The Green…
Despite what’s implied by the title, Hermano isn’t actually the name of the character you play in the side scroller of the same title for the Game Boy, best optimized for the Chromatic from ModRetro. Rather, you play as Nano, who rises from the grave furious that a demon has kidnapped his beloved…
Prepare to embark on a magical journey of friendship, imagination, and song as the Kickstarter campaign for Echoes of the Unread, a brand new adventure for the NES, is now live. Developed by Clever Cat Games and published by Mega Cat Studios, Echoes of the Unread puts players in the shoes of Rhapsody, a young girl who, after falling asleep while studying in…