All Things Retro
Swan song. With sales of just 3.5 million units, the Bandai WonderSwan can hardly be described as one of the most commercially successful handhelds of all time, but its significance in the history of video games goes beyond simple stats and figures; it was the last console to be designed by the legendary Gunpei Yokoi…
Sonic 3 was released in North America on February 2nd. 30 years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was officially released for the Sega Genesis in North America (on February 2nd, 1994), with Sega hijacking the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to mark the special occasion. The sequel, developed by Sega Technical Institute in the…
Crazy Taxi! Monkey Ball! Jet Set Radio! Streets of Rage! The video game-inspired clothing brand Insert Coin has announced on its blog that a bunch of new Sega-related items are now available to both buy and pre-order from its store. This new collection includes clothing based on classic Sega titles like Crazy Taxi, Super Monkey…
Including Backyard Football & Backyard Baseball! On a recent episode of the New Heights podcast, the NFL star and media personality Jason Kelce let slip some news that should excite gamers who grew up playing Humungous Entertainment’s Backyard Sports series. Speaking to his brother and co-host Travis, he revealed that he has secretly been looking…
Very Ninteresting. JoeyN64 is a new N64 dumper device which allows you to legally download your N64 games and their respective save data – as well as flash homebrew ROMs to compatible carts. The device connects via USB-C and is treated by your computer as an external drive, making the process as pain-free as possible….
Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network & Legend of Network were preserved last December. Last December, RockmanCosmo, the leader of the feature phone preservationist group SciLabSecrets, announced that the team had successfully managed to preserve full copies of the incredibly rare Japan-exclusive Mega Man games Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network and Legend of Network. These were two mobile…
The clash of titans. When Capcom hit upon the idea of creating crossover fighters with 1996’s X-Men vs. Street Fighter, it kicked into motion a series of games which would include some of the best brawlers in the business – including Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. The Japanese…
Cosam has created a custom Neptune motherboard. Remember that custom Sega Neptune mod? We filled you in on the mythical console’s existence a short time ago, with fans taking existing Sega Genesis and 32X parts and combining them to create the all-in-one system that sadly never saw release back in the day. Retro tech modder…
“I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything”. Before iPhone and Android devices became the primary platforms for mobile gaming, there was already a healthy community of gamers in Japan experiencing the joy of playing video games on their phone, thanks to the emergence of Japanese feature phones. These proto-smartphones…
Over 4,000 votes entered. Japanese retro gaming ‘Mangaka’ (which means comic artist or cartoonist) KABU recently asked their followers to vote for the best Saturn games of all time, and, with more than 4,000 votes submitted, the results are now in (thanks @gosokkyu). What’s most surprising about the top ten is that, despite the console’s…