Retro Gaming News
An unfinished build has been published online. An unfinished build of the Sonic fangame Sonic & The Moon Facility has been released online, letting players experience a mostly playable version of the cancelled project. If you cast your mind back to August 2023, you may remember hearing about the promising upcoming Sonic fangame, when it…
While RetroSouls has released many games such as GLUF, Old Tower and Alter Ego, one of the more unique games they released, was a game called Ringo. What made this game unique was the fact that it was one of the first games to use their new ‘experimental graphics mode’. While I’m unsure about the…
“An incredible find”. Seven brand-new Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets have been discovered in a warehouse 30 years after the game launched. As highlighted by Gabe Fowlkes, the find was announced on Facebook, with the “completely NOS Sega Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets” being described as “completely untouched, still boxed, monitors never powered on.” Read the full…
Time flies when you’re piloting massive robots. Square’s Front Mission series is now 30 years old—it made its debut in Japan on February 24th, 1995. The first game was released exclusively on the Super Famicom in Japan, and was created by Toshiro Tsuchida. Read the full article on timeextension.com Time flies when you’re piloting massive…
“Ray and I would have probably launched a bid to try and take over EA from the inside”. BioWare’s co-founder Greg Zeschuk recently made an appearance on Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console and, in the process, revealed why he left the company and his wild dream of launching a bid to take over EA…
“Because of this work, he was delayed in going to the hospital”. Astro Boy: Omega Factor is one of the highlights of the GBA catalogue and arguably shows Sega’s Hitmaker studio (which collaborated with Treasure on the game) at its finest. However, working on the game came at a considerable cost for artist and designer…
ChapuTranslations has released its patch of the top-down action RPG. A new fan patch was published earlier this month for the Japanese-exclusive title Prisoner, giving players an exciting opportunity to play the action-adventure RPG in English for the very first time. Released in 1999, Prisoner is one of only a small handful of titles that…
“I am convinced that they are not original Japanese to English translations”. Retro-Bit, a company which has a long history of re-releasing old-school titles in physical form, has been accused of plagiarising fan-translations—despite its insistence that its localisation efforts are totally bespoke. Translator Krokodyl has amassed a staggering amount of evidence to back up this…
The console that keeps on giving. One of the more welcome surprises of 2024 was the revelation that GTA 3 would be unofficially ported to the Sega Dreamcast. Developed by a team led by SKMP and built using KallistiOS software, the port was an incredible example of what Sega’s 128-bit console is capable of in…
“Promenade the critically acclaimed 2D collectathon combining exploration and puzzles in a dreamlike, colorful universe is still available digitally or physically on all platforms “ Join Nemo and his octopus companion on an oniric and enchanting journey through a beautiful 2D world packed with secrets and mysteries. Explore, collect, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and…