Retro Gaming News
“To gamers this is as egregious as trying to play a DVD on a record player.”. Yesterday, BBC Breakfast published a video report on the booming interest in retro games, featuring an interview with UKIE CEO Prof. Nick Poole OBE. But the segment hasn’t exactly gone over well online, with most people ignoring the content…
The Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom has long been a notorious device, one of the first examples of Internet enabled gaming that never left Japan. Emulating the Satellaview isn’t difficult with modern technology, although it can be somewhat tedious since it requires using an alternate bios, causing even most of its brand name…
The device is expected to include a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 chip. Earlier today, the Chinese handheld manufacturer Anbernic officially announced the Anberic RG477M, a new “high performance” Android-based emulation handheld, in a brief teaser video published over on its YouTube channel. For some of you, we expect this probably won’t be the first time you…
Sonic 3’s file select hides a curious audio bug. One thing that we absolutely love about video games is that you can play a particular title hundreds (maybe even thousands) of times over a roughly 30 year period, and still find yourself occasionally encountering something “new” decades later that you’d never even noticed on all…
Dracula Hunter was the work of the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo. A developer named Arlasoft has just announced it has recreated the “lost” 1979 arcade game Dracula Hunter from the Japanese developer Teknon Kogyo, for modern PCs. If you haven’t heard of Dracula Hunter before, we certainly won’t blame you, as we hadn’t heard of…
Pre-orders are now open. The music label Data Discs has announced it will be reissuing a bunch of its previous Sega releases, giving fans of the legendary video game company another chance pick up the music to some of their favourite games. According to the recent social media post from Data Discs, the list of…
A new FPGA-based recreation of the C64. Commodore International has just announced just its first official hardware in over 30 years under its new ownership — a new AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA-powered recreation of the Commodore 64, called the Commodore 64 Ultimate Edition (thanks TomsHardware for the spot). Pre-orders for the the new computer are…
There is perhaps no image of the aughts era arcade quite as iconic as those giant Dance Dance Revolution machines, paradoxically because it’s difficult to imagine anything quite so antithetic to the arcade experience prior to that point than dancing to often obscure music. While not the first rhythm game by any means, Dance…
“This was the most fun I’ve had working on anything in years”. We recently reported on the fact that Supercell – famous for its smartphone games – had teamed up with a bunch of former EMAP journalists to create Super Cellphone Gamer, a promotional magazine based on the legendary Mean Machines, one of the UK’s…
Safeguard Drac’s pumpkin garden. While the original Donkey Kong is arguably one of the most famous (and important) games in Nintendo’s history, its sequels are slightly less well-known and certainly struggled to match Kong’s explosive debut in terms of commercial and critical acclaim. Despite this, they actually enhanced and evolved the gameplay, with 1983’s Donkey…