Retro Gaming News
“My understanding is that we have performed our duties”. Boutique publisher Limited Run Games was recently accused of a GPL (general public license) violation in relation to Tomba! Special Edition, which, it was discovered, uses the PSXC-Rearmed emulator. The issue was flagged on January 27th and has recently resurfaced and brought to our attention by…
The Homebrew Channel ceases development. The Homebrew Channel, a means of running unofficial apps and games on the Wii, has ceased development after it was alleged that key figures in the homebrew development community stole code from both Nintendo and other open-source projects. As is the case with much of the homebrew software for Wii,…
Earlier today I thought to myself, I wonder what would happen if I scrolled back to Stern Pinball’s first Facebook post. Yes, these are the sorts of things that go through my mind lol. So I figured out to go back in time…all the way back to September 22, 2009. The first post Stern…
Some more Amiga news for you all, as we’ve just been given the heads up, that JOTD who was behind great conversions such as Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Super Bagman, Galaxian500, Pooyan, Super Xevious, and the upcoming Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, has now turned his attention to the 1982 game of Burger Time. A new Amiga…
The demo was created for the Revision 2025 party. Earlier this month, a demoscene group called The Twitch Elite released a new Neo Geo demo at Revision 2025 — “the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event” — and it’s seriously been blowing our minds with some of the amazing “3D” effects on display. The demo, which…
The first two “Twilight Syndrome” games from 1996 are currently being translated. It looks like the first two games in Human Entertainment’s horror-themed adventure series Twilight Syndrome are about to get a fan translation, judging from a set of tweets from the fan translator blamerobots. Twilight Syndrome: Tansaku-hen and Twilight Syndrome: Kyūmei-hen were a group…
Here’s an interesting, albeit short story. OK, use of the word “almost” in the title is kind of a stretch, but it was discussed. According to a recent post by renowned pinball artist Christopher Franchi, prior to him becoming an exclusive artist for Spooky Pinball he tried to get American Pinball to build a pinball…
“SNK×BEEP Athena Goods” features reprints of some classic merchandise from the ’80s. SNK is teaming up with the Japanese retro video game retailer Beep to rerelease some classic merchandise based on its old arcade titles Athena and Psycho Soldier (thanks Famitsu). The new merch is available now to order from Beep’s online store and includes…
Teases a new project called the “Japan Advanced Institute of Technology”. If you’re familiar at all with the MSX story, Kazuhiko Nishi is a name that you’ve probably encountered in the past. Not only was he the founder of ASCII — the company that launched MSX in partnership with Microsoft — but he was also…
A bunch of other games have also joined GOG’s preservation program. Today, GOG has revealed that it has released the Capcom role-playing game Breath of Fire IV on its storefront, now updated for modern PCs and available DRM-free. The game will be included as part of the company’s preservation program, meaning that if you purchase…