Retro Gaming News
Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. counts down five awesome series that are due for a massive comeback. Jumping Flash: Easily one of the most influential PlayStation games ever, it’s been lately ignored. For far too long. Beloved by fans, it would do well as a digital exclusive for Sony. Twisted Metal: With the success…
On January 30th, Retro Room Games made their Game Boy Advance port of Nebulus available to purchase in their online store. Produced in collaboration with Rebellion, Nebulus is a classic puzzle platformer dating to 1987. Originally released for home computers such as the Amiga and the Commodore 64 back in 1987, Nebulus is relatively…
“SOMEBODY’S RIGHT ON YOUR TAIL”. With the 1995 PlayStation version of Ridge Racer launching on the PS4/PS5 earlier this month, I thought it might be worth trying something slightly different with this week’s Community Challenge. Growing up, I don’t know about you, but I always used to love seeing people’s high scores published in old…
Fans can check out the brand-new pinball machine at Stern Pinball’s official booth (#4029) and at the annual Stern Pop-up Arcade at the Marriott Marquis, July 24 – 27. CHICAGO – July 2, 2025 – “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…” Today, in celebration of the 50th anniversary…
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Fatal Fury 2, and Fatal Fury Special. Mizuki, the company behind the X68000 Z (a recreation of Sharp’s X68000), has revealed it will be releasing a new compilation, based on the Fatal Fury series (otherwise known as Garō Densetsu in Japan). Fatal Fury: Trilogy Collection brings together Magical Company’s X68000…
“A complete, buildable disassembly of Virtua Racing Deluxe for the Sega 32X”. Back when Sega launched the ill-fated 32X, one of the key selling points it hit upon was that it could run faithful coin-op ports of the company’s latest 3D games – and it sort of had a point. While Virtua Fighter and Virtua…
“I’d rather quit the industry than use Generative AI”. The Oliver Twins recently resurrected one of their older games, Ghost Hunters, using Generative AI. The results are not pretty If you listen to Google, Meta and Microsoft, you’d be forgiven for believing that Generative AI is the future of, well, everything. Read the full article…
Overclocks from 80MHz to 94MHz! A new ‘turbo’ N64 core for MiSTer FPGA is in the works that boosts performance by 17.5 percent, it has been revealed. As highlighted by Video Game Esoterica, Corn’s update on FPGAzumSPASS‘ existing N64 FPGA core overclocks from 80MHz to 94MHz on Reality Coprocessor and memory, which makes games run…
Promises “totally dynamic worlds” and extensive modding possibilities. Some of the original developers behind classic PC titles Diablo & Diablo II have gotten together to work on a new “next-generation” ARPG. Darkhaven, as the in-development game is called, is the work of the indie startup Moonbeast Productions, which is a company formed in 2021 by…
Abxylute-ly underwhelming. First impressions of the Abxylute E1 ($70 / £52) aren’t brilliant, it has to be said. The black plastic casing looks and feels a bit cheap, and while the green LED lighting is eye-catching, it’s something I quickly found myself turning off. However, I’ve come to learn that, in the emulation handheld space,…