Retro Gaming News
Collection now limited to Grind Stormer and Slap Fight. Retro-Bit has confirmed that the upcoming Toaplan Shooters Collection Vol 2 will only contain two of the proposed three games due to “licensing constraints.” The postponed pack—which was previously advertised as containing Twin Cobra, Grind Stormer and Slap Fight—will now ship with just the latter two…
Originally released for PC-88 in 1986. Sein Soft’s 1986 sci-fi shooter Mirai has been announced as the next classic Japanese computer game coming to the Nintendo Switch, as part of D4 Enterprise’s ongoing EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. According to the company’s website, the PC-88 version of the game will arrive on the Nintendo eShop…
There’s also a new achievement-dedicated app called “Trophy Case” to track your success. Panic’s Playdate handheld finally has achievements, thanks to a new project created by various members of the portable console’s development community. Playdate Achievements hit 1.0 yesterday on its GitHub page, and is described as a new “open standard for achievements in Playdate…
New book coming in 2026. As one of cinema’s longest-running sci-fi horror franchises, the Alien series has spawned more than its fair share of video games—but the surprising thing is, unlike some other movie crossovers we could mention, the majority of them have been pretty decent. Starting in 1982 on the Atari VCS / 2600,…
Developer Jonas “Indyjo” Eschenburg warns not to “expect too much for now”. Another day, another Doom port. This time it appears that it’s the turn of the Atari ST to get its own version of Doom, with the developer Jonas “Indyjo” Eschenburg flexing their porting skills to try to get the ID Software’s iconic first-person…
Decompilation project is around 80% complete. While emulation is commonplace these days, we’re seeing an exciting new trend emerge: decompilation. This process allows the homebrew community to recompile native (not emulated) PC versions of classic games, and we’ve seen the likes of Star Fox, Super Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time benefit so far….
Neon Hawk is upcoming rail shooter. The Vectrex was one of the more unique gaming systems of the early 1980s, as it employed vector graphics and came with its own built-in screen. Despite these innovations, it was a commercial flop but has remained popular with retro gamers because it offers something very different from the…
Reports of broken hinges appear online. When Miyoo announced its GBA SP-style ‘Flip’ handheld a while back, it caused plenty of interest online—until the device actually arrived in the hands of customers, at least. The most pressing problem related to the Flip’s hinge mechanism, leading the company to retool the device to create the Flip…
Textures & models from the Xbox version are now being imported. It’s not been that long since a group of Dreamcast fan developers, led by SKMP, banded together to produce unofficial ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. But already, it appears that someone has begun releasing new mods for…
New visuals, music and transformations. Sega’s classic arcade game Altered Beast has just been remade by a fan, and you can download it for free. Created by LucasJogos2, Altered Beast Remake retools Makoto Uchida’s original 1988 coin-op with improved visuals, a new soundtrack and a host of new beast transformations. It’s available for free on…