Retro Gaming News
“Going forward, we will review and strengthen our process for evaluating future sponsors”. The speedrunning organisation Games Done Quick made a speedy U-turn on its decision to host a sponsored SNK stream last night after receiving a wave of negative online feedback over its choice to work with the Saudi-owned company (h/t: Rock Paper Shotgun)…
That’s according to a new leak. We typically leave most of Nintendo’s LEGO announcements to our sister site, Nintendo Life, but this news was simply too much in our wheelhouse for us to ignore. As shown on the Legoleak subreddit (CarterBricks04/via u/Gupytex), it looks like LEGO & Nintendo are gearing up to announce a new…
You should “mecha” dash for this series. One of the lesser-known but equally fantastic FromSoftware mecha games that started out on the PlayStation 2 is the Another Century’s Episode series. Effectively meant as an action version of Super Robot Wars, which featured disparate mecha from various anime all fighting together, it mostly focused on real…
‘Super Bomberman: Panic Bomber W’ joins the party. We have some potentially good news for Bomberman fans to start your week off with a bang. Super Bomberman: Panic Bomber W is finally making its way West, over 31 years after its release on the Super Famicom, courtesy of a free update for the Super Bomberman…
“An obscure Japanese game console made for little girls finally gets DOOM!”. Since its original release on PC back in 1993, homebrew developers have been trying to get DOOM to run on everything, from smart fridges to tractors. This resulted in many unofficial ports of the game to platforms that never originally had DOOM, with…
A good retro collection used to start with a console, a box of cartridges and a shelf that could still bear weight. Now some collectors want the whole machine: the painted cabinet, the coin door, the reel glass, the original buttons and the odd smell of old wiring after it warms up. That has pushed…
Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure! Evercade price hike! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A…
If you enjoyed Taito’s Bubble Bobble in the Arcades or at home, then you’ll be pleased to know that not only can you still download Dave Retro Forge’s graphically superior version of ‘Bubble Bobble Remastered’ for the C64, or ‘Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave’, which is a true spiritual sequel to that classic arcade game. But as…
With a release date of 2015, Life Is Strange is another one of those games that’s kind of pushing it in terms of the “retro” designation, although if you’ve ever seen the game in action, graphics aren’t the strong suit and Life Is Strange certainly looks like it could come from an earlier era….
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