Retro Gaming News
“My brain short-circuited. My soul ascended”. Final Fantasy VI‘s Kefka Palazzo is one of the most iconic villains in JRPG history, and he’s just been immortalised by cosplayer and wrestler Leon Chiro. Chiro created the costume for Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu’s recent concerts in Rome and even got to meet the man himself during…
The Capcom beat ’em up originally debuted back in 1994. A new fanmade reimagining of Capcom’s SNES X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse has just been released for PC & Android, letting players experience a recreation of the classic title with new characters, moves, and the ability to play with up to three friends. According to its creator…
Alejandro Martin is contesting chargebacks for pre-orders. Hot on the heels of news that the SuperSega project is being refocused to be little more than a glorified MiSTer, we can now reveal that Alejandro Martin is blocking those people who pre-ordered the original console from getting refunds. If you’ve been following this sorry saga from…
The Mission: We bring people together by providing a place to connect through a multigenerational video gaming experience. I was fortunate enough to have met and interviewed the owner of “Arcade 92” in Flower Mound, TX. I will have his full interview published in the May issue of Old School Gamer Magazine. Here is a…
The game was originally released in arcades back in 2006. If you’ve been looking to get to grips with Alfa System’s bullet hell series Castle of Shikigami, then today’s your lucky day, as Cosmo Machia has just released a PC port of the third and final entry Castle of Shikigami III over on Steam. This…
You need deep pockets in more ways than one. While Steam Deck’s humble sales have illustrated that the handheld gaming PC market is smaller than many believed, that doesn’t mean there’s not an appetite for these monstrously powerful portable beasts. Before Valve entered the market with its aforementioned device, we’d already seen several examples from…
Space Invaders Infinity Gene Evolve launches April 3rd. Taito has announced that it will be bringing out a new version of the critically acclaimed mobile title Space Invaders Infinity Gene to Apple Arcade at the start of next month. Space Invaders Infinity Gene Evolve, as this new entry is called, will be released on April…
Arrives March 13th. Another classic Konami arcade game is scheduled to release on Nintendo Switch and PS4 later this week, as reported by Famitsu. This time it’s the fixed-screen shoot ’em up Juno First, which sees players jumping behind the controls of a spaceship and battling the waves of aliens that appear onscreen. Read the…
“We certainly have […] access to many of the classic, old-school titles”. Last week, the news was announced that the NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat publisher Acclaim was being resurrected from the dead after 20 years, with the WWE legend Jeff Jarrett set to be part of an advisory board for this new version of…
The video game music repository KHInsider has had a huge week. Visitors going to the main page at downloads.khinsider.com today were greeted by a massive list of 71 games that had been added on March 11th. But visitors scrolling down further may have been shocked to find that this fairly simple, ad-free site…