All Things Retro
Thanks for the memories. The humble memory card occupied a vital but brief position in gaming history. Prior to the arrival of CDs, game data was stored directly on the cartridge – The Legend of Zelda being one of the earliest examples of ‘battery back-up’ for games that required many hours of play before they…
Arrives March 6th. Update : Berserk Boy finally has a release date and a new trailer. The game will arrive on March 6th, 2024 on Steam & Nintendo Switch, with PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions arriving at a later date. You can watch the new release date trailer below:…
“It was born very quickly, and it still annoys me!”. If you’ve ever played any games from the Grand Theft Auto developer DMA Design, then you’ve probably at some point come across its logo, the “DMA Man”. The red, green, and blue character, which was created out of the letters that made up the company’s…
The promotion is now available in the UK and Ireland. Pac-Man and Oreo have teamed up for an exciting new promotion in the UK & Ireland, offering a chance to win a bunch of cool prizes (thanks Retro Dodo for the spot!). These include an opportunity to be entered into a prize draw to win…
3DSage is a new game engine for the GBA “coming soon”. A new 3D engine is on the way for the Game Boy Advance called 3DSage that will let you build your own Doom-like levels. 3DSage is the work of the homebrew developer Sage, who has previously produced a bunch of other 3D demos for…
Karuizawa Yūkai Annai would influence the NES JRPG. Yuji Horii is most famous for creating the massively popular Dragon Quest series of JRPGs, which – as of March 2022 – has sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. However, those of you who know your history will be aware that Horii’s achievements in video games…
Update: Record beaten twice in the space of a few days. Update : Unbelievably, they’re still at it. Just days after @mechalink set a new record on Virtual Hydlide at Awesome Games Done Quick, @TheRealZophar managed to beat the score. Read the full article on timeextension.com Update: Record beaten twice in the space of a…
Will be based in Bristol, UK. Our friends over at Retro Dodo have just made an exciting announcement – they’re going to launch a new retro live event in the UK later this year. Dubbed RDX Expo, the event will take place in Bristol and feature a selection of classic systems to play, new retro…
“They shipped me a Super Famicom and a copy of Mario”. In our Lost Zelda Games article, we mentioned interviewing the gentleman behind the Nintendo Adventure Books. Reaching that point required an interesting detour – the books were credited to Clyde Bosco, Bill McCay, and Matt Wayne, all of whom seemed impossible to find online…
Thanks to Remute who contacted us just recently, he has told us that he has released the latest Album for the Atari Jaguar called There is Hope. As in the words of Remute “Within only five years Remute became the trailblazer for game cartridge based music albums delivering releases for consoles like Super Nintendo, Gameboy,…