All Things Retro
Say hello to Red Viper. A Virtual Boy emulator has just been released for the Nintendo 3DS, and it runs all officially licensed games at full speed. Developed by @Skyfloogle, Red Viper can be installed on hacked 3DS consoles and allows you to experience the console’s 3D effect without having to stoop over a table…
A real gem. Capcom’s arena-based fighting series Power Stone is now 25 years old – it launched on the Sega Dreamcast on February 25th, 1999, and came to arcades in the same month. Positioned as one of the Dreamcast’s leading third-party exclusives, Power Stone gained rave reviews thanks to its delightfully chaotic gameplay and striking…
“Guess who is coming to the Pocket!?”. FPGA developer Boogermann has revealed he is about to release an MSX core for the Analogue Pocket. Created in 1983 as a standardized home computer architecture, MSX was a joint venture between ASCII Corporation and Microsoft. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Guess who is coming to the…
Playable in your web browser. Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo and Capcom have a long relationship which has spawned several ranges of licenced merchandise – and now the pair have produced a video game. The game has been released to celebrate Capcom’s 40th, and is called UT ADVENTURE. The game launched this week and has been…
As a kid, Jeff Gerson happily dropped quarters into arcade video games and pinball machine machines to prove his skills. He realized this was something he enjoyed and had fun at. To recreate those happy childhood days, Jeff Gerson has realized his dream and built a fully functional 80s arcade in his own home. Not…
“I was married for 60 years to my childhood sweetheart & it was a long & loyal marriage”. If you’re at all familiar with the first three Indiana Jones films, you’ll know that Indy has a different love interest across each of the three movies. There’s Marion Ravenwood (played by Karen Allen), the daughter of…
How the Tomb Raider series lit a fire under LucasArts. In the late ’90s, Core Design’s Tomb Raider Lara Croft had managed to supplant Indiana Jones as the player’s adventurer of choice, leaving LucasArts somewhat in the cold. As a result, Hal Barwood, the director of the 1992 adventure game Indiana Jones & the Fate…
A real mystery. Former GameFan staff writer Mollie L Patterson has stumbled across a bizarre discovery – a bunch of her former colleagues from the 1990s have somehow made it into the credits for the 1995 LaserActive port of Road / Blaster Avenger. The names were found by a GDRI member, and include some of…
“I did not intend to force my own personal views on players”. This piece follows on from our feature on the making of Suikoden, which you can read here. Spoiler Warning: We’ve tried as best as possible to avoid Suikoden spoilers (there is one), but we definitely spoil Final Fantasy VII, because if you don’t…
Get your coat, you’ve pulled. Combining genres can lead to some unexpectedly pleasant results, and that’s certainly the case with Pullfrog Playdate Deluxe. Based on the Pico-8 title Pullfrog, this Playdate-exclusive update is a mix of Tetris and your traditional 2D platformer, with the goal being to create lines out of falling blocks. The catch…