Retro Gaming News
Live on Kickstarter now. Indie studio Ogre Pixel has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Black Tower Enigma, a puzzle-solving adventure for the Game Boy which places you in the shoes of an Orc who has to explore a “mysterious tower” in order to liberate his wife. “Play as Wigo, the Orc, whose wife has been…
This time it’s the turn of 2004’s ‘Bomberman 3D’. The original i-Mode release of Bomberman 3D, an obscure Bomberman game that debuted on Japanese feature phones, has just been preserved in full, representing yet another piece of rare piece of Bomberman history rescued from its digital graveyard. Bomberman 3D was originally launched in December 2004…
A demo is expected to launch later this month. If you happen to be a Sonic the Hedgehog fan that owned a Nintendo DS in the mid-2000s, you might remember Sonic Rush. Created by Sonic Team and Dimps, the handheld entry in Sega’s long-running Sonic series was released for Nintendo’s dual-screen platform in 2005 and…
Including Final Fantasy Legend I-III & Final Fantasy Adventure. If you’ve ever wanted to play Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy Legend games on your Game Boy with colourized visuals, then you’re in luck. Three new ROM hacks have just been released that bring the monochrome graphics of the three classic titles into colour, giving the game a…
Features “perfect point-to-point rendering for N64, PS, and Dreamcast”. AYANEO has announced the first handheld as part of its new “entry level, high value” Code R range, which it is calling the Pocket Air Mini. The new retro emulation device, according to the initial teaser image posted online, will include a 4.2-inch, 4:3 display at…
Real Racing Roots. The entire Ridge Racer series is special, but there are certain entries in Bandai Namco’s legendary franchise that attract more affection than others. Towards the top of that list, you’ll find Ridge Racer Type 4, a 1998 PS1 exclusive that, for many people, is the shining apex of a series that sadly…
Update: PAX West 2025 footage has us very excited. Bit Kid, the developer behind the well-received procedurally-generated adventure Chasm, has revealed its next project. Wolfhound is a 2D Metroidvania set during World War II. You assume the role of Capt. Chuck “Wolfhound” Rossetti, who is tasked with entering a top-secret Nazi base in the Bermuda…
The sequel to Prey was formally cancelled back in 2014. A bunch of new videos showcasing footage from Human Head Studios sequel to Prey (2006) has appeared online, offering an extended look at some of the features and mechanics the studio had planned for the cancelled project. Prey (not to be confused with Arkane Austin’s…
“No two games play alike and they are all designed to be fun as possible”. The name ZSNES will be instantly familiar with anyone who was emulating video games back in the late ’90s and early 2000s. One of the earliest SNES emulators, ZSNES launched all the way back in 1997 and was created by…
Based on Clamp’s manga series. Clamp’s Chobits series is perhaps more important than ever right now, thanks to the fact that the world is currently going AI-crazy and chatbots are telling us to glue pizza and eat rocks. The original manga started in 2000, and tells the story of college student Hideki Motosuwa, who finds…