All Things Retro
Giving your console the ‘ultra’ treatment. Following the release of the phenomenally successful NES, Game Boy and SNES (we won’t mention the Virtual Boy), there were high hopes that Nintendo’s 64-bit console would become the platform of choice for the vast majority of players. The arrival of the PlayStation ensured that didn’t come to pass,…
Last week’s reissue of Rainbow Islands was the 400th game distributed. Hamster has revealed that it has now released 400 titles as part of its Arcade Archives label of reissues as of last week. Originally beginning in 2014 on the PS4 (before eventually branching out to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms in the following…
Work on the new game profile has gotten underway! 3DSen — the incredible NES emulator that transforms 2D-pixel graphics into 3D voxel art — is about to receive support for the 1987 boxing title Punch-Out!!, its developers Geod Studio recently announced. So if you’ve been looking for a way to breathe life into this classic…
“That’s the second biggest LEGO Monkey Head we’ve ever seen!”. If you’re a fan of Lego, you’ve probably heard of the website Lego Ideas by now, but just in case you haven’t we’ll give you a quick recap. It’s a place where people can go to submit their fanmade ideas for potential future Lego sets,…
Feeling old yet? Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen launched on January 29th, 2004 in Japan – that makes them 20 years old today. Gulp. North American players would have to wait until September 7th, 2004 to get their hands on the games, while Europe didn’t receive them until October 1st, 2004. Read the full article on…
All registered in the UK. Nintendo has just filed three trademarks relating to its GameCube controller in the United Kingdom, sparking (admittedly optimistic) speculation that it might be bringing the console’s games to Nintendo Switch Online. The three trademarks were filed on the 23rd and 25th of this month and were spotted by @Jo_Reggelt on…
In the early 80’s Nintendo released one of the most famous games of all time, and that game was ‘ Donkey Kong ‘. A game in which you played as Mario that had to avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a…
Now unlocked by a new patch. The Saturn is home to some amazing shooters, one of which is Kingdom Grand Prix (known as Shippuu Mahou Daisakusen Kingdom-Grandprix in Japan), a unique title which mixes shmup action with a racing theme. Developed for arcades in 1994 by Raizing, the game would be ported to Sega Saturn…
Upgrading Sega’s 32-bit powerhouse. Released at the close of 1994 in Japan, Sega’s 32-bit Saturn promised so much; the company had conquered 3D in the arcades, and this was the system that would bring that dominance to the home. Unfortunately for Sega, Sony had other ideas, and its PlayStation console would utterly eclipse all rivals,…
Silent Hill 3 can be considered a fitting end to the original trilogy, showing how far the series has come. It is actually a canonical sequel to the first game, making the Silent Hill 2 more like a spin-off game that can stand on its own. Released just two years after Silent Hill 2, the…