Retro Gaming News
OctaRace is coming to modern platforms, including PC and Switch 2. Remember Micro Machines for the NES? We certainly do! Codemasters’ top-down racer based on the Galoob model toy range of the same name was one of our favourite multiplayer titles for the original NES and has since gone on to inspire a bunch of…
And the pre-installed Densha de GO!: Going Round in Yamanote Line. As you’ve probably been able to tell from the abundance of news articles lately, the feature phone preservation community has been extremely active in recent months, dumping a ton of old Japanese mobile titles that were previously believed to be lost to time. Because…
Hadouken! Capcom has announced on the Street Fighter social media account that Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition is now available to download for those who have an active Netflix subscription. So, if that happens to be you, consider this your heads up in case you’ve always wanted to try out the mobile version of the…
Experience the Saturn version with full English support. The 1995 Japan-exclusive Sega Saturn version of Cyberdream’s Dark Seed has just been translated into English for the first time by fans. The patch is the work of Kitchen34 and is available to download now from the website SegaXtreme. It localizes all in-game text and also adds…
Coming to Steam and Itch. It probably goes without saying at this point that we’re huge fans of Castlevania here at Time Extension, so we’re always on the lookout for games that might scratch the same kind of itch. And that criteria definitely seems to fit Goth Donut Games’ Lady Dracula down to a tee….
This looks like a perfect companion to the Retro Mechanical Keyboard. The accessory maker 8BitDo isn’t a stranger to releasing products inspired by the NES. In the past, for instance, it notably released an NES-inspired design for its Retro Mechanical Keyboard — one that we ended up reviewing rather favorably back in 2023, calling it…
Tekhan’s Pinball Action launched in arcades back in 1985. Hamster has announced that it will be bringing Tekhan’s classic pinball game Pinball Actionto PS4 and Nintendo Switch later this week. It will launch on April 24th, 2025, and will cost $7.99 across both platforms. Released in the arcades back in 1985, Pinball Action is a…
The move is in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made goods. Following yesterday’s news that Anbernic is set to suspend all shipments to the US following President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made goods, it has emerged that Ayn, the creator of the Odin 2 emulation handheld will also soon be joining them. This time around,…
Available to pre-order now. D4 Enterprise, the company behind retro initiatives like Project EGG and EGGCONSOLE, has announced it will be bringing out a new physical collection celebrating Nihon Falcom’s classic action-RPG series Ys (h/t: Famitsu). The Ys Collection is scheduled for release in Japan in 2026, for Windows 10 & 11 PCs, and is…
The discovery was made earlier this month. If you happen to own an Evercade VS, you will probably already know that the Namco Museum Collection 1 and 2 have for the longest time been considered incompatible with the retro home console, thanks to licensing issues between Blaze Entertainment and Namco. As a result, if you…