All Things Retro
“Video games are arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented”. Jack Thompson, an activist with a long history of fighting against sex and violence in video games, has said that interactive entertainment is “arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented.” Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, the 72-year-old former attorney – who famously…
On March 19th, 2024. with a sad and heavy heart, Mike Begum, a competive Street Fighter player, has passed. Mike, better known as BrolyLegs, was an American professional fighting game player primarily known for competing in Street Fighter. Begum’s accolades as a competitive player include being ranked the #1 Chun-Li player online in Ultra Street Fighter IV from 2013 to 2017 and placing #25 in Street…
We’re all good boys and girls, right? Remember back in 2019 when Masahiro Sakurai said that Mai Shiranui wasn’t featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate because the game is for “good boys and girls of many different ages”? It turns out that the female fighter’s omission has troubled Fatal Fury producer Yasuyuki Oda all these…
An essential read for adventure game fans. Revolution Software has had its fair share of ups and downs over the past 35 years or so, from experiencing success with the Broken Sword series of adventure games to dealing with unreasonable publishers, project cancellations, and devastating layoffs. Many of these highs and lows have been documented…
VGS case would lay the ground rules for modern emulation. Emulation is in the spotlight right now thanks to Nintendo’s tussle with the creators of Yuzu, but hardware makers have been chasing down this kind of thing for quite some time – as a new video by Greg Gant (of Definitive Mac Upgrade Guide fame)…
A week or so ago, I wrote here about how Atari is returning to the arcade scene after a multi-decade absence. It reached an agreement with a Company called Alan-1 to build arcade cabinets for a number of the new revamped classic arcade games in its “Recharged” series. Minutes ago we learned which title is…
“A game that follows a scenario is like life on rails”. There’s been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the term ‘JRPG’ is derogatory, triggered by Final Fantasy XVI’s Director Naoki Yoshida’s revelation that, at one point during his career, he felt the term was “discriminatory”. It’s hard to pinpoint precisely when…
Could Rev Limit have been Nintendo’s answer to Ridge Racer before Ridge Racer 64? The game preservationists over at Hard4Games have just released some newly unearthed footage of Rev Limit — Seta’s cancelled racer that was in development from the mid-to-late ’90s. If you grew up reading Nintendo-themed publications in the 90s, you’ll no doubt…
Kaisoku! Sparrows!! was developed before UPL filed for bankruptcy in ’92. New footage of an unreleased and unfinished shmup from the defunct Japanese developer UPL has appeared online (as spotted by Gosokkyu). UPL was a company that primarily made games for the arcades. That includes titles such as Mouser, Ninja-kun: Adventure of Devil Castle, Atomic…
Maybe Clare Redfield was busy? The wild and wacky world of free-to-play smartphone gaming has given us some unexpected crossovers, but this latest one takes the biscuit, we have to say. Doomsday: Last Survivors is described as “a zombie survival game with multiplayer online competition and real-time strategy elements” that is “set in a near…