Retro Gaming News
¡Ay, caramba! When the developer Vicarious Visions released its Game Boy Advance port of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 in 2001, it ended up taking a lot of video game critics by surprise. Utilizing an impressive isometric engine, with a real-time rendered 3D character, it far exceeded many people’s expectations of what a Tony Hawk…
Known as Target Earth in the US. The 1990 Genesis / Mega Drive title Assault Suit Leynos has been blessed with a new fan-made patch which translates the dialogue and restores much of the content that was cut from the Western release, Target Earth. The original Western version was censored and dumbed down, with story…
The final release date is still a mystery though. After three years of silence, a new 4 minute trailer has just dropped for the Doom mod, Fallout: Bakersfield, and it is looking absolute incredible from the footage we’ve seen of it so far. Fallout: Bakersfield, in case you haven’t heard of it, is Saur X‘s…
14 different palette options! Six MSU-1 soundtracks! The welcome trend of NES titles getting native ports to the SNES continues, and it’s the turn of Konami’s gothic epic Castlevania. Originally released under the name Akumajō Dracula on the Famicom Disk System in September 1986 (it would come to the NES as Castlevania in 1987), this…
“A modern handheld Super Nintendo with ALL the bells and whistles”. It never ceases to amaze me how modders, hackers and homebrew enthusiasts continue to push the envelope when it comes to retro gaming tech. Take the incredibly talented YveltalGriffin, for example; not only are they part of the team which gave us the “Wii-on-a-keychain”…
Deathchase and Renegade updates on the way. The Kickstarter campaign for the third production run of the FPGA-based Spectrum Next has gotten off to an incredible start, raising over £1.2 million in less than two days – and blasting past its funding goal of £250,000. In fact, it passed its funding target in just over…
Fenrir Lite ODE announced, “better/faster/stronger Fenrir” in the works. While using original media will always be the most authentic way of experiencing classic games, in recent years, we’ve seen a rise in the number of Optical Drive Emulators (ODEs) being produced for CD-based consoles – and Saturn has been blessed with several great options. One…
In 1989, SimCity was released for DOS-compatible computers and Macintosh. With this release, millions of people got their first taste of the city-building genre, and one of the most legendary game development careers began. Simple at first glance, SimCity is a game that someone could reasonably play forever, trying new combinations of buildings and policies…
Atari partners with the in-car gaming platform AirConsole. The video game company Atari and the creators of the in-car gaming platform AirConsole are teaming up to bring modern versions of classic Atari arcade games to Volkswagen drivers. According to the official announcement, which was made yesterday via a press release, it is now possible to…
Ask someone to recommend a management simulation video game and there is a fairly good chance that they would recommend Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon games. Considered among the most influential management simulation video games, the genre would not be what it is today without these two titles. Called “the best economic sim…