Retro Gaming News
Earlier today, Netflix released the second season of the stop motion animated series Pokemon Conceirge to little fanfare. At just four episodes, making a whopping total of eight twenty-minute vignettes of life as an island resort for Pokemon, it’s easy to see why Pokemon Conceirge is such a low-key project. This isn’t the expression…
Walk into an online casino and you may expect a futuristic display. Something like a science fiction set, blinking panels, smooth chrome. Instead you often find a screen that could have been lifted from 1987. Squared edges, simple colours, music that sounds like a kettle boiling in rhythm. What ought to be obsolete has been…
Say hello to ‘DMG vs. Super Game Boy’. Dr. Ludos, creator of the Game Gear title Dangerous Demolition, has created what he’s calling the first “Super Game Boy exclusive” video game. Entitled DMG vs. Super Game Boy, this homebrew offering “unlocks a hidden feature of the Super Game Boy, that no game ever used before:…
Natsume Atari files trademark in Japan. Natsume Atari has filed a fresh trademark for Shatterhand in Japan, as reported by Gematsu. Originally released on the NES in 1991 by Jaleco, Natsume’s Shatterhand is a side-scrolling action platformer which, despite getting merely average reviews at the time of release, has since become something of a cult…
The perfect OS for “kids, parents, and grandparents who just want to play”. We live in an era when digital gaming is more popular than ever, and that comes with massive benefits—instant access, cross-progression across devices, and the ability to seamlessly update games with patches and fixes. However, it also comes with plenty of less…
Live on Kickstarter now. Indie studio Ogre Pixel has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Black Tower Enigma, a puzzle-solving adventure for the Game Boy which places you in the shoes of an Orc who has to explore a “mysterious tower” in order to liberate his wife. “Play as Wigo, the Orc, whose wife has been…
This time it’s the turn of 2004’s ‘Bomberman 3D’. The original i-Mode release of Bomberman 3D, an obscure Bomberman game that debuted on Japanese feature phones, has just been preserved in full, representing yet another piece of rare piece of Bomberman history rescued from its digital graveyard. Bomberman 3D was originally launched in December 2004…
A demo is expected to launch later this month. If you happen to be a Sonic the Hedgehog fan that owned a Nintendo DS in the mid-2000s, you might remember Sonic Rush. Created by Sonic Team and Dimps, the handheld entry in Sega’s long-running Sonic series was released for Nintendo’s dual-screen platform in 2005 and…
Including Final Fantasy Legend I-III & Final Fantasy Adventure. If you’ve ever wanted to play Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy Legend games on your Game Boy with colourized visuals, then you’re in luck. Three new ROM hacks have just been released that bring the monochrome graphics of the three classic titles into colour, giving the game a…
Features “perfect point-to-point rendering for N64, PS, and Dreamcast”. AYANEO has announced the first handheld as part of its new “entry level, high value” Code R range, which it is calling the Pocket Air Mini. The new retro emulation device, according to the initial teaser image posted online, will include a 4.2-inch, 4:3 display at…