Retro Gaming News
Did you fall for this one? Back in 2013, Twitter user VGFGamers posted with supreme confidence that “all of the voices in arcade hacking-and-slashing game Golden Axe were performed by American prisoners on death row.” Three years later on the same platform, vipgamesaus repeated the same claim almost word-for-word – and this has been reproduced…
“Panic Porcupine returns in a next-gen platformer straight out of ’98.”. Take a dash of Sonic, add a hint of Crash, then throw in some Mario for good measure, and blend it all together; what do you get? Probably a great, big, bloody mess, and a ruined kitchen appliance. But if we were to take…
Now available on Manga Gamer. Originally released in 1990, Battle Skin Panic is a card-battling game in which a selection of girls engage in “undressing battles” using the “ancient kung-fu technique Rasin-Kassatsu-Ken.” First released for the PC-8801 in 1990 and ported to the PC-9821 in 1993, the game was developed by animation studio Gainax, famous…
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The first major expansion for the “Dragon’s Dogma” series, “Dark Arisen” comes with plenty of new weapons and enemies. For those who haven’t played the series yet, Capcom provides the type of title here that like an “Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout” or “Diablo” fan can quickly get attached to. But unlike the afformentioned games, regardless of…
According to an official press release from Bethesda, the classic 1996 FPS, Quake, is receiving a brand new episode called “Dawn of the Machine. This update, which is free for owners of the recent Quake remaster on platforms like PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. In addition to 19 new levels, the anniversary update offers fresh achievements, multiplayer…
OpenPete is now available in v0.1.3. 27 years after its original release, the classic PlayStation platformer Spyro the Dragon has just received an unofficial PC port. The port, which was developed by Amec and tyscorp, is called “OpenPete” (a reference to Spyro’s original name during development), and is now available in v0.1.3 for Windows, with…
Aimed at developers, apparently. As you’ll know from our KONKR Pocket Advance review, this GBA-inspired portable is an excellent piece of kit, and well worth the modest asking price. However, AYANEO has received criticism for how it has distributed the device. After the initial batch sold out, the company announced not one but two new…
You can now pull off “gorgeous” rallies with ease. Jérémy Lemaire, otherwise known as Boomchil, has just released a new fan-made ROM hack for Data East’s 1994 Neo Geo “future sports” game, Windjammers. As Lemaire states on his website, “Windjammers… is without a doubt one of the Neo•Geo’s best versus games. It’s a real treat…