Retro Gaming News
A rally sneaky secret. Seasoned secret-spotter @memory_fallen has uncovered yet another interesting Easter Egg that has apparently gone undetected for decades. The game in question this time is the Saturn port of the 1996 arcade racer Sega Touring Car Championship, which launched on the console in 1997. Read the full article on timeextension.com A rally…
Tatsumi’s ‘TX-1’ joins Arcade Archives. Another week, another Arcade Archives release; this time, it’s the turn of Tatsumi’s 1983 racing game TX-1, with Hamster revealing it will be releasing the hidden arcade gem on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on Thursday, July 30th 2026. Released in arcades one year after…
Teases “Dreamtime Monty”, the “first official Monty Mole adventure in over 30 years”. A new heritage label focused on the games of Gremlin Graphics is set to launch later this year, with the help of Gremlin founder Ian Stewart. Gremlin Graphics Classics is the work of Allan Turvey, the founder of the homebrew publisher Midnight…
Patch also fixes a key bug from the original game. While the Genesis / Mega Drive and SNES were fairly evenly matched in a lot of genres, it’s not an exaggeration to say that Nintendo’s console had a distinct advantage when it came to RPGs, with a host of amazing titles such as Final Fantasy…
Today, a Star Wars game arrives carrying decades of expectations. Players know what a lightsaber should sound like and how an X-wing should move. The earliest Star Wars games had none of that inherited design language. During the franchise’s first decade in video games, there was no accepted formula. Star Wars could be a text…
“Turns the platform into a second class MAME”. If you’ve been following the MiSTer FPGA scene recently, you’ll no doubt be aware of the sharp rise in AI-assisted cores for the platform. We’re currently witnessing a flurry of new cores that are apparently based on MAME rather than the original arcade boards, which, in the…
“Bringing the original, retro spirit and arcade energy of competitive gaming back”. Atari has revealed plans to team up with Twin Galaxies to launch a new gaming competition featuring five of its iconic titles. The Atari World Championships, according to this announcement, will kick off with an open online tournament, which will leverage “Twin Galaxies’…
“I did NOT use AI to translate any text”. Magic: The Gathering is arguably more popular now than it has ever been, but it’s important to remember that the card game’s history goes all the way back to the ’90s. Created by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993, MtG (for…
“An extremely shady site and developers need to be aware of this”. Last week, we reported that the retro website Generation Amiga’s GenAI practices had come under fire from the community, and we’re now hearing that parts of the Amiga fandom are rejecting the site’s content outright, leading to its ban from certain social media…
“The level of interest and support we have received has far exceeded my expectations”. This month sees the release of Truxton Extreme, a new entry in the legendary shmup series which started life all the way back in 1988 and was conceived by the equally esteemed Masahiro Yuge. Yuge established Tatsujin in 2017, with the…