All Things Retro
Features 47 rearranged tracks based on Hiroki Kikuta’s classic score. The music label Scarlet Moon has just released a whopping 47-track tribute album celebrating Hiroki Kikuta’s incredible score for the 1993 SNES role-playing classic Secret of Mana. The tribute album, which is called EXCALIBUR: A Tribute to Secret of Mana, includes new takes on a…
With the exception of an issue or two, two artists have done nearly every cover of Old School Gamer since its start in 2017. Starting out with Thor Thorvaldson for approximately the first 1/2 of our existence and then, most recently, Dexter Morrill for the last couple of years. While each has their own style…
Including games for everything from the Apple II to the Sord M5. If you’ve been following Time Extension for a while, you’ve probably come across our coverage of the website Gaming Alexandria — the small preservation hub run by a group of video game history enthusiasts that recently managed to preserve the entire library of…
Includes the N64 game Glover, as well as Street Racer and Star X. Evercade releases are like buses; you wait a while, and two come along at once. We’ve only just gotten over the announcement of a second Sunsoft Collection, and now Blaze has hit us with another release: Piko Interactive Collection 4. Read the…
Third time’s a charm? After mining the C64 back catalogue with THEC64 Collection 1 and THEC64 Collection 2, you’d assume it was slim pickings with this third instalment – and, to a degree, you’d be right. While there are some big names included in THEC64 Collection 3 – such as the amazing Boulder Dash and…
Everyone has those old games laying around their parents’ loft that nobody plays anymore. But the real question is are they worth anything? Crucial has crunched the numbers to determine which video games have held their value or increased the value since its release! Ranking Game Average Resale Price Year Released 1 Super Mario 64…
“A group of zealous grognards are developing something amazing”. After plenty of speculation, Microsoft finally revealed its plans for the Xbox brand yesterday, and it felt like the entire gaming world had something to say about it. The headline news is that four Xbox games are going multiplatform, but they don’t include Starfield or Indiana…
“Stay tuned”. Released in 1991, Konami’s Vendetta / Crime Fighters 2 is one of the company’s most accomplished side-scrolling fighting games. The sequel to 1989’s Crime Fighters, it boasts bold visuals, complex mechanics and a welcome sense of humour – but sadly, it was never ported to any home system at the time of release….
Fallout! Fallout 2! And Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel! Three classic Fallout games are set to be given away for free on the Epic Games Store next week (as spotted by Eurogamer!) So if you want to snatch up two of the best computer role-playing games of all time (Fallout and Fallout 2) and the…
Coming to Switch, PS4 and PS5. Numskull and Bitmap Bureau have teamed up to release Bitmap Bureau Collection, a new three-game pack which includes the UK developer’s entire output so far. Coming this summer, Bitmap Bureau Collection features the Smash TV-style shooter Xeno Crisis, the top-down hack-and-slash epic Battle Axe, and the side-scrolling beat ’em…