Retro Gaming News
Part of the Saturn Tribute series. Hot on the heels of the announcement that Steam Heart’s and Advanced VG are coming to City Connection’s Saturn Tribute series, we now know the next entry in the range: Farland Story I & II (thanks, Gematsu). The pack will include the Saturn versions of 1996’s Farland Saga and…
“Welcome to the future”. We trust you’ve been keeping up with the increasingly bizarre SuperSega saga, which kicked off with the announcement of an all-in-one FPGA-powered Sega console and has ended with pre-order cash missing and legal action from Sega itself. SuperSega boss Alejandro Martín has drifted in and out of focus during this entire…
“By chance, the CEO and producer of a game company called Nippon Telenet saw my plan”. The Japanese author Aya Nishitani has recently been sharing some amazing stories about the Megami Tensei series on Twitter/X, which includes the fascinating story behind why it received two drastically different versions for the Nintendo Famicom and Japanese home…
In 2024, just over 20 years ago, Valve created Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter that continues the story of silent protagonist Gordon Freeman. Once a humble scientist, Freeman now finds himself in the middle of a global war against a multidimensional species known as the Combine, with humanity’s fate resting in the balance. In short,…
Are you a bad enough dude to take a look? The Quarter Arcades range is expanding with two new entries, which have been revealed on the scale-model coin-op maker’s Facebook page. Data East’s iconic 1988 title Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja and Atari’s 1979 classic Lunar Lander are the two cabinets in question. Read the full…
My Life in Gaming gives its verdict. Marseille’s mClassic dongle promised a lot when it was released back in 2021. The company made a big deal about how the add-on device could improve the image quality of both modern and retro systems, but the end result was so subtle that our friends over at Nintendo…
The game debuted in arcades back in 1990. Taito’s arcade beat ’em up Thunder Fox, is scheduled to hit Arcade Archives later this week. It will be available on Nintendo Switch and PS4 starting from January 30th (h/t: Famitsu). Thunder Fox was first released in the arcades back in 1990 and was later ported to…
“Why is Mr. Itagaki so fixated on targeting and attacking me?”. The 3D fighting genre has undergone something of a revival in recent years, with franchises like Tekken and Virtua Fighter slowly reclaiming the considerable mindshare they enjoyed during the ’90s. Another franchise that has been bubbling under for the past few decades is Koei…
Both games are now part of GOG’s Preservation Program. Capcom’s dinosaur-filled survival horror series Dino Crisis has arrived on GOG, with the digital distribution platform adding the first two games in the franchise, Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2, to its storefront. Dino Crisis debuted on the PlayStation back in 1999 and was later released…
Building a good Pokémon TCG deck isn’t just about getting rare cards – it’s about making sure every card in your 60-card deck works together to win consistently. With over 64.8 billion Pokémon cards produced worldwide as of 2024, including a huge demand for Japanese Pokémon cards due to their exclusive designs and unique releases, it’s getting…