Retro Gaming News
Prepare for launch. The fan-made Star Fox EX Exploration Showcase has just been updated to version 1.11.02, we’re happy to report. Kandowontu’s ROM hack includes 17 new levels, new enemies, fresh music, as well as new graphics modes, ship customisation and more. Read the full article on timeextension.com Prepare for launch. The fan-made Star Fox…
AM2’s arcade fighter could get a native PC port soon. Sonic the Fighters has been decompiled, it has been revealed. Decompilation is a complex process that turns ‘executable’ code back into human-readable source code, and is a vital step in ‘recompiling’ games as native PC ports. Read the full article on timeextension.com AM2’s arcade fighter…
San Francisco Rush 2049 comes to Project R. A recompiled native PC port of Atari Games’ futuristic arcade racer San Francisco Rush: 2049 has just been released online, as spotted by VideoGameEsoterica. The port was released last week as part of the v.0.7.0 update of Project R — an unofficial fan project from the developer/engineer…
Releasing tomorrow (May 22nd) in Japan. A new collection of Darius minifigures is set to be released in Japanese stores tomorrow (Thursday, May 22nd), giving fans the chance to collect some of their favourite bosses from across Taito’s popular shoot ’em up series. The brand-new range is the work of Toys Cabin, a niche manufacturer…
“I was literally walking in yelling at the marketing department”. After the news was shared online earlier this year that Monolith would be closing its doors for good, there were a lot of tributes written about the studio’s 30-year-plus history. As you’d probably expect, many of these went on to celebrate the company’s involvement in…
Advanced reading. Ninty Media has already given us the GameBook and GameBook Color, and it is completing the trilogy with GameBook Advance, a crowdfunded tribute to Nintendo’s all-conquering 32-bit handheld. Over 550 people raised £42,568 to help make this particular book happen, and, in doing so, helped to secure talent such as former Nintendo Official…
There’s life in the old dog yet. The Wii U GamePad is surely one of Nintendo’s most contentious innovations. On one hand, it offered asymmetric gameplay possibilities that had never been witnessed before, and also allowed you to play games on the controller when the main TV was being used for something else—a feature which,…
‘Bomberman Puzzle Special’ was released for i-Mode phones. The i-Mode version of Hudson Soft’s 2008 mobile title Bomberman Puzzle Special has now been dumped and preserved, the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo has announced. Released in 2008, Bomberman Puzzle Special is a Sokoban-style puzzle game that acts as an expanded version of the 2003 i-Mode title…
Ryuku (AKA: Solitaire Poker) arrives this Thursday. Success’s arcade version of the card-based puzzle game Ryukyu has just been revealed as this week’s Arcade Archives release. It will be arriving on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on Thursday, May 22nd. Ryukyu is a game that was originally produced by the companies ASCII and Loginsoft for Japanese…
Gotta go fast, easy right maybe. Back in the 1990s, Sega’s popularity in the UK was so pronounced that it largely overshadowed Nintendo during both the 8 and 16-bit eras, and this dominance was perfectly illustrated by the company’s sponsorship of F1’s European Grand Prix at Donington Park in 1993. “It was a ‘floating’ Grand…