Retro Gaming News
“TEKKEN” is a 3D fighting game released by NAMCO LIMITED (current Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1994. In The King of Iron Fist Tournament “fighters” with their own hidden agendas clash to determine who possesses the ultimate fist. The game features a revolutionary control scheme where four buttons correspond to each limb, delivering an intuitive…
“One of the biggest and most difficult projects I’ve taken on”. A new book charting “the untold story” of a “pivotal period” in Tomb Raider’s history is on the way, from the publisher Pen & Sword Books. The Making of Tomb Raider 1997 – 2000 is the follow-up to Daryl Baxter’s 2021 book The Making…
“Every page is composed in its entirety on a real Atari Falcon030”. This month sees the launch of Atari Legacy, a new quarterly print magazine with features, hardware archaeology, demoscene news and “oral history from the Atari era.” Edited by Piotr Mietniowski, PhD – “one of the world’s most recognised experts on 16- and 32-bit…
People who play Japanese role-playing games, such as myself, have become somewhat desensitized to the strangeness that these games can evoke. After all, there are very few genres where pre-teen kids are frequently flung into life-threatening circumstances, and all their parents have to say is “have fun, sweetie!” by Matthew Floyd While definitely not “retro”…
“Many of you told us you wanted a more accessible entry point”. Commodore International has reduced the entry-level price of its divisive Callback 8020 phone. Announced a short time ago, the Callback 8020 is seen as a means of combating the addictive lure of the modern-day smartphone. While it supports Android apps via its SailfishOS,…
35 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog! The story of Sonic the Hedgehog is the story of the 1990s. Born of a brilliant union between cutting-edge console technology and of-the-era super radical attitude, Sonic’s iconic design and in-your-face personality quickly solidified him as a bonafide pop culture icon, a flagbearer of everything hip, cool, and of course, fast. Now, 35 years later, iam8bit & SEGA are…
And we get eight instead of six games this time. You might assume that the fourth Neo Geo Arcade collection for Evercade is going to suffer from a lack of decent titles, but it’s always worth noting that, despite its relatively small library of games, SNK’s Neo Geo system has a surprisingly high number of…
Rent A Hero Z is a new game from the Web3 game publisher LINE NEXT. Sega’s Japanese account has announced on Twitter that a new project based on its RPG series Rent-A-Hero is currently in development and scheduled for release next year. But before you get too excited, it appears the new game won’t be…
The company has now filed a lawsuit in a California court. A few months ago, source code for multiple versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty leaked online, containing “non-public videogame assets from MGS 2 and internal MGS 2 development materials.” And, unsurprisingly, Konami isn’t happy. Read the full article on timeextension.com The…
“Like the easiest game to get ahold of for a Genesis”. iam8bit is celebrating Sonic’s 35th birthday with two new physical re-releases of the original game and its 16-bit sequel. Manufactured by Retrotainment Games, the ‘Sonic Legacy Collection’ comes complete with a printed manual and a special-edition transparent cartridge, with each one costing a whopping…