Retro Gaming News
“Younger people who want to make games should play really old games”. One of the formative figures of video games is Tomohiro Nishikado. Known for creating the arcade game smash hit Space Invaders, I caught up with him about his long and storied career. “I was born in Osaka, in a place called Kishiwada, and…
The 68000’s heart really is on fire. We’re certainly not short of ‘new’ Mega Drive / Genesis games, but ZPF seems to have captured the imagination of more people than most other examples. Following an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign and the news that it’s also coming to modern-day systems, this horizontally scrolling shooter has now…
From the co-designer and lead programmer of Blood. After Monolith Productions was closed earlier this year, bringing an end to the company’s 30-year history, we’ve been reaching out to different developers who worked at the studio to hear their tales of what it was like working at the company. This has revealed some fascinating stories…
The source code has now been reverse engineered to 99.8%. According to a brand new video from the YouTuber Matt KC Bytes, the 2002 party game Mario Party 4 has become the first Nintendo GameCube to officially be decompiled. Decompilation, as you may already be aware, has become something of a popular topic in the…
“Evokes the hand-drawn style of posters that once adorned the walls of game centers”. Yuzo Koshiro’s Earthion is close to release, and the game’s key art has just been shown off ahead of launch. As revealed on social media, the man behind the artwork is none other than Mitsuhiro Arita, who is one of the…
Let’s a-go! We recently saw Rare’s N64 classic Diddy Kong Racing get the decompilation treatment, and now it’s the turn of Mario Kart 64 to get the same benefit. Decompilation, in case you didn’t know, is the process of translating an executable file into source code. The decompilation process is essential for native PC ports…
This year has just been fantastic for the Amstrad CPC with a ton of Amstrad homebrew games to spoil us, but even though we had the incredible Amiga to Amstrad port of Pinball Dreams, we haven’t finished with the Amstrad yet. Now you may remember our big article on the very impressive looking homebrew remake of…
Kickstarter launches later this month. The Kickstarter campaign for the Blu-Ray release of the Jeff Minter documentary Heart of Neon is scheduled to launch later this month on May 22nd, 2025. If you’re a fan of the video game studio Llamasoft or its ruminant-loving founder Jeff Minter, then you probably have already heard about the…
Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise is also collaborating on the album. The Mega Man 3 co-composer Harumi Fujita is releasing a new album and has enlisted the help of Mega Man creator Akira Kitamura to do the artwork. Rockmama, as the new release is being called, is Fujita’s debut solo album and contains 14…
Fast and difficult shoot ’em ups, often shortened to “shmups”, were an absolute staple of the arcade era. Space Invaders was a major proponent in the explosion of arcade culture, so it’s no wonder that the genre consistently received countless combinations of spaceships blasting through baddies for decades to come. In 1985, Konami released Gradius,…