Retro Gaming News
All 21 figures are now available to download. A full set of rare Super Mario Land figures from the 1980s has just been 3D scanned and preserved, ensuring this obscure piece of Mario merchandise isn’t lost forever. If you’ve been following Time Extension (or Nintendo Life) over the last few years, you may have seen…
“Keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time”. Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the most acclaimed entries in Square Enix’s long-running series, and certainly one of the best PS1 games of all time, so when the rumours were confirmed recently that the 32-bit classic is getting a remaster…
Ben Collins takes on ‘Mr OutRun’. Fans of the BBC’s Top Gear will be intimately familiar with the Stig, the masked race driver who appeared throughout the series to challenge guests on the show. The character was played by more than one person during its lifespan, with professional driver Ben Collins being behind perhaps the…
‘Strategy X’ heads to PS4 & Switch this week. The Konami 1981 tank-based shooter Strategy X is releasing this week on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, as part of Arcade Archives, Hamster has announced. The game will be released on Thursday, June 19th, and will cost $7.99 across both platforms. Hitting the arcades in the early…
Philadelphia, PA – June 17, 2025 – Hot on the irradiated heels of The MIX Summer Game Showcase, Philadelphia-based indie game publisher and developer Retroware has released a Troma-tizing new trailer for Toxic Crusaders, coming to consoles and Steam in Q3 2025. The latest footage showcases nearly a minute and a half of mutant mayhem. In it, we get an…
“Golden Tee is a cultural phenomenon”. Those of you old enough to remember playing trackball golf arcade games in your local public house will be pleased to learn that emulation specialist Digital Eclipse is bringing Incredible Technologies’ Golden Tee games to modern-day systems. Golden Tee Arcade Classics will feature eight of the developer’s golf titles,…
“The way the game is set up means that we can fully mod the game”. Another Nintendo classic has been decompiled, and this time it’s the turn of Animal Crossing on the GameCube. The team behind the effort to decompile the game has announced that it has hit the milestone of “100% matching and linked…
Final Fantasy Unlimited on PC released in 2003. An English translation patch is currently in the works for the obscure 2003 PC game Final Fantasy: Unlimited Labyrinth – Black Dream Memories (FF:U on PC Meikyū – Kuroki Yume Noki Oku), according to the fan translator and ROM hacker Yuvi. If you were a fan of…
These releases show no signs of clamming up. The GBA SP’s iconic clamshell design has already been cloned by emulation handheld makers via the Miyoo Flip and Anbernic RG35XX SP. Now, the latter company is back with the confusingly named RG34XX SP, which is a smaller, sleeker take on the GBA SP with analogue sticks…
The Japanese version will be released in physical form later this year. Yesterday, Edia, the developer and publisher of retro compilations like the Telenet Shooting Collection, the Cosmic Fantasy Collection 1 & 2, and the Cho Aniki Collection, announced it will be releasing the 1994 Super Famicom RPG Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori…