All Things Retro
All guns blazing. With its monochrome, ultra-widescreen display, simplistic controls and signature crank, Playdate offers an interface which is quite unlike anything else on the market at present – and while that’s undoubtedly a positive, it means that the bright yellow handheld isn’t as well-suited to every genre of game as it perhaps could be….
In recent years, the world of video game modifications, or “modding,” has exploded significantly. Nowadays, you can modify components, consoles, controllers, and memory cards! Whether it’s changing out the shell of your controller to that perfect shade of cherry blossom pink or giving your Nintendo Gamecube Bluetooth connectivity, there’s a mod for you. Not every…
Punch drunk. Nintendo’s coin-op boxing title Punch-Out!! is now 40 years old – it was released in arcades on February 17th, 1984. One of the last arcade titles to be released by the company before it focused its energy on home consoles, the game made quite an impact at the time of release thanks to…
The three games were developed by UA Ltd in the early ’80s. Three previously unreleased Atari 2600 prototypes have been discovered and dumped online by a poster over on the AtariAge forums (as spotted by John Hancock!). The AtariAge poster, who calls himself Ianoid, posted in the AtariAge forums earlier this month, publishing links to…
“It will make softmodding significantly more accessible”. A new exploit has been discovered for the original Xbox which allows you to hack your console using nothing but a memory card. “ENDGAME is a universal dashboard exploit for the original Microsoft Xbox,” reads the exploit’s GitHub page. “This exploit has been carefully engineered to be compatible…
“The tools have been designed to be architecture abstract”. Blaze’s Evercade family of systems has played host to NES, Mega Drive, SNES, PlayStation, arcade and even Amiga games, but its upcoming Piko Interactive Collection 4 finally adds a format which people have been crying out for – Nintendo 64. The pack will include the N64…
The year was 1982. I went to Time Out, my local arcade, and there I found my cousin playing this new game where a cook had to make burgers while avoiding hot dogs, pickles, and other food items. That game was BurgerTime and I was immediately hooked! BurgerTime was first released in Japan under the…
The speedrunner SHiFT has set a new best time of 41m 59s. A new any% speedrun world record has just been set for the 2003 THQ platformer SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. The SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom speedrunner SHiFT set a new world record yesterday, achieving a time of 41 minutes 59…
Hokuto No Ken 3 was originally released in 1989. An exciting new fan translation patch has just been released for a Japan-exclusive Nintendo Famicom RPG based on the iconic manga and anime series Fist of the North Star. Hokuto No Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou Seiken Retsuden was the third game for the Nintendo console to…
“They thought Nazis were an inherent part of that world”. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to Xbox this year, and has plenty of people excited about the famous explorer and his adventures – both cinematic and interactive. However, it’s also a game which also relies on the Nazis as enemies, and that’s…