Retro Gaming News
“It’s time to break the habit”. Retro accessory maker Hyperkin has issued an apology on social media after a series of fumbled launches and heavily delayed releases. The company has an unfortunate track record of announcing products and then going quiet on them for ages; for example, the RetroN GX was revealed back in 2022…
“SF2 was so popular that people were quitting their day jobs to open arcades”. Legendary Street Fighter player Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has been speaking about the incredible impact Street Fighter II had on the games industry back in the early ’90s and feels that we haven’t witnessed anything like it since. The sequel to…
One neat aspect of Boss Fight books is that despite their all having the same basic premise, the exact content of these books differs widely from author to author, and the Silent Hill 2 book by Mike Drucker is no exception. As expected, the book deals with the historical context and production of Silent…
“A confounding mystery. A hapless butler. An interplanetary threat.”. Jonathan Ackley, one of the co-directors of the 1997 point-and-click classic Curse of Monkey Island, has announced he and his design partner, Larry Ahern, are reuniting to work on a new comedy adventure game, and that they are currently on the lookout for a publisher. If…
Dip switches! Free games! Language support! Blaze has just launched the first Evercade firmware update of the year, and it offers some pretty big changes for owners of the VS/VS-R, EXP/EXP-R and Alpha. The headline news is that the Game of the Month system is being replaced by Highlight of the Month, “an opportunity to…
Forever blowing bubbles. The world of emulation handhelds has given us numerous clones of the Nintendo Game Boy, but Sega systems have been curiously underrepresented. Sure, Anbernic gave us the Saturn-style ARC, but we haven’t had all that many devices that take inspiration from Nintendo’s bitter ’90s rival—until now, at least. The $99 Game Kiddy…
Including a football mini-game and a James Bond-esque ski chase. The SNK run ‘n gunner Metal Slug 3 is already a pretty ridiculous game, featuring zombies, aliens, and submachine gun-wielding orangutans. But it turns out, the game could have perhaps been even more bonkers, with the former SNK and Nazca Corporation developer Akio recently taking…
Another article so soon? A couple of odds and ends have dropped since my last post and I’m sitting in my car, many towns from home waiting for my youngest son who is at club lacrosse practice so I’ve got time. First up, we have Barrels of Fun, maker of the Labrynth pinball machine. Barrels…
After Burner! Daytona! Guardian Heroes! The recently-released XenonRecomp tool has already given us a PC port of Sonic Unleashed, but it could be put to (arguably much better) use by reviving many delisted Xbox 360 titles. XenonRecomp converts Xbox 360 executables into C++ code, which can then be recompiled for any platform. “Currently, it only…
The discovery was shared on LinkedIn. Members of Square Enix recently made a remarkable discovery upon opening an old storage container at work that had been shut for close to 20 years: a cache of pristine, retro games that includes titles released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, DOS computers, N-Gage, Nintendo Wii,…