Retro Gaming News
The NAMCO LEGENDARY 2026 SALE has officially kicked off. One common complaint we see on a lot of our Arcade Archives-related stories is that the price of the games can sometimes be slightly higher than some people are willing to spend, especially for many of the simpler, much older titles. If that sounds like something…
Wolf is out now on itch.io! The Game Boy Color was never meant to be a playground for fans of 3D shooters, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to turn it into one over the past couple of decades The most notable example is Xanth and Bullet Proof Software’s 1991 Game Boy port of…
“This will very likely be a treasure that we’ll go back to for the rest of our lives”. The Zelda series isn’t alien to the concept of co-operative play – see Four Swords and Tri Force Heroes – but the original 1986 title has remained a resolutely single-player affair, until now. Developer Deric Miller has…
…but Minish Cap lists Anthropic’s Claude Codex as a contributor. EstebanPdN, the creator of the 3DS port of Link to the Past, has returned with two more native 3DS ports – one for N64 racer Mario Kart 64 and another for the GBA Zelda, Minish Cap. Based on SpaghettiKart, the Mario Kart project is “designed…
I’ve been a fan of games based on the Rogue formula for quite some time. It probably stems from my love for the dungeon crawls in RPGs like Phantasy Star and Eye of the Beholder. Roguecraft GB Title Screen For the uninitiated, the basic formula for a Rogue game, or “roguelike”, is pretty simple. You…
Tvrtko Horvat, a casino expert and iGaming industry advisor who tracks Croatia’s online-gaming market closely, noticed something in Commodore’s TAC-2 announcement that resonated well beyond the retro hardware circuit. The company’s explicit commitment to authentic feel — a steel shaft replacing a flawed original component, a tactile response preserved unchanged — mirrors precisely the test…
Ninety-seven copies of a previously undocumented Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge variant for the Nintendo Entertainment System have surfaced at a retro game store in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the first of them are now heading to auction. The find, reported by UPI News, is being described as one of the most significant discoveries in video…
Some video games arrive quietly, sell a few copies and disappear. Others show up, take over living rooms, and suddenly become a franchise with sequels, spin-offs, films, merchandise and fans who can quote every line twenty years later. It’s funny looking back at the original releases, because nobody buying those first games could have known…
A writer at XDA Developers skipped the impulse purchase of yet another dedicated handheld and instead pulled out a refurbished 2013 MacBook Pro, loaded it with OpenEmu and Dolphin, and rebuilt it as a capable retro gaming rig. The machine no longer fits into a modern daily workflow, but it runs emulation software well and…
“I am sure it will do very well for you”. Andy Davidson, the creator of Worms, recently returned to the hit series he created to release an expansion pack for Worms: The Director’s Cut for the Amiga, and it seems that it has got him rummaging around in his personal archives. The result? He’s recently…