Retro Gaming News
“Mags are a part of history now”. Julian Rignall is one of the most famous and influential video game journalists of the ’80s and ’90s, having worked on magazines such as Zzap!64, CVG, Mean Machines and Nintendo Magazine System. He would later help to establish IGN as one of the leading video game websites in…
“Ever wondered what Daytona USA might have looked like if it had released earlier…?”. Have you ever wondered what Daytona USA might have looked like if it had been released a few years earlier? Well, that’s the question the homebrew developer Frogbull has sought to answer with their latest video, reimagining the classic 1994 Sega…
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Gentlemen, start your engines… Sony’s PlayStation console is now in its fifth generation, and during the past 30 years, we’ve seen 3D gaming evolve into offering unprecedented levels of realism, online connectivity become the norm and digital downloads dominate the sales charts. One thing that hasn’t improved all that much is boot time—and by that,…
SimCity 3D launched back in February 2006. The feature phone preservationist XYZ has recently preserved the Japanese-exclusive feature phone game SimCity 3D, as reported by RockmanCosmo on social media. SimCity 3D is an “expanded” version of EA’s SimCity Network Edition, licensed and developed by Hudson Soft. It featured “enhanced” 3D graphics that let the players…
New survey reveals retro is alive and well. We know that retro gaming is big business, but there are so many ways to play old-school games these days that you can be a fan of classic gaming and not own original hardware; consoles like the Switch and PS5 give access to titles digitally, and we’ve…
The memoir of a true games legend. Julian “Jaz” Rignall has done it all. Video game champion. Magazine editor. Game producer. TV commentator. Website launch editor. Video game research analyst. During a career which began in the ’80s and continues to this very day, Rignall has witnessed the evolution of an entire industry, and he’s…
Zeichi Games tech demo is looking promising. We’ve seen plenty of video games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media franchise, but the one which sticks out for most people is Konami’s legendary 1989 side-scrolling arcade fighter. A staggering commercial success, its legacy has reverberated through the decades, so much so that it was…
46Okumen has released its latest fan translation. A new English translation patch has just dropped for the PC-98 RPG Appare-den: Fukuryū no Shō, making the game significantly accessible for Western players. Released in 1995, Appareden: The Sacrosanct Dragon (as it is being translated here) is a top-down adventure from Technical Group Laboratory — a Japanese…
Fan-made port gets better with each update. Of the many community-made Mega Drive projects currently underway, Final Fight MD is one we’ve been following the longest. Mauro Xavier’s port is shaping up to be one of the best versions of Capcom’s legendary side-scrolling fighter, and already has elements that were missing from the SNES version—such…