Retro Gaming News
Game over? Not quite. I never actually realised quite how many video games there are based on the Alien media property until Mike Diver’s superb Aliens: The Video Games – An Unofficial Guide dropped onto my doormat. And I say this as a fan of many of those games; Alien 3 on the Mega Drive…
Could it join Zero Wing on SNK’s system? The Tokyo Game Show gave us the very welcome news that Toaplan’s Zero Wing is being ported to the Neo Geo, and this has clearly inspired some people to consider other potential conversation candidates. One of these is Earthion, a game made with the Mega Drive hardware…
“The classic masterpiece Xevious reborn in polygons!”. Over 30 years after its original release in the arcades, Hamster is bringing Xevious 3D/G, Namco’s divisive 3D revival of its 1983 shoot ’em up classic Xevious, to modern consoles this week, as part of Arcade Archives 2. Developed for Namco’s System 11 arcade board, Xevious 3D/G featured…
For Their Eyes Only. A new video showcases Rare’s seminal first-person shooter GoldenEye 007 in an equally rare third-person form, courtesy of a new mod from homebrewer Josh_7774. The “GoldenEye 007 Plus” mod, seen here running on Analogue 3D software, has our boy Bond, James Bond, battling an army of Russian badniks in third-person, over-the-shoulder…
‘Contains the entire museum and plays nothing at all’. The curator of the unofficial “Game Boy Museum” has finished work on the its newest attraction, a database of the exhibition’s entire itinerary, squeezed down to the size of a Game Boy cart itself. The project is the work of Dr. Marcel Pflug, who has been…
DDownnloaddable nnow. Classic gaming purveyor Anbernic has released Version 1.0.2 of its NNDDSS emulation software. The new update promises a wealth of new features for better optimisation of all of your favourite En Dee Ess games, typically found running on Anbernic’s RG DS Plus handheld. According to Anbernic, Version 1.0.2 will offer users smoother gameplay,…
The Strong museum in Rochester keeps 108 archival document boxes of Bally, Midway and Williams paperwork. Most of it is pinball: playfield drawings, wiring diagrams, engineering logbooks. The finding aid for the collection also includes parts lists for a five-coin multiple slot from 1969 and a three-reel slot machine from 1972. Arcade histories tend to…
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. If that sequence still comes back without a moment’s thought, you probably remember its appeal: a brutal game suddenly gave you room to breathe. Poker has nothing that adds 30 lives or upgrades the cards in your hand. Its closest equivalent is knowing what to…
“You’re not locked into one emulator or one platform”. If you’re anything like me, then you do your retro gaming across a wide range of platforms. I’ve got the MiSTer FPGA hooked up to my TV, and a SuperStation One in the office. I also emulate retro games on my AYANEO 3, KONKR Pocket Advance…
No, not that IMAX. A homebrew team has released a patch for the obscure Sega Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll, allowing the 1996 cyberpunk RPG to be played in English for the very first time. Developed by studio Betop and published by I’MAX, Cyber Doll is a dystopian adventure set in the year 2039 in the…