All Things Retro
20 games! Piko Interactive is a company which specialises in acquiring and re-releasing old games from publishers who have either gone bust or have sold off their back catalogues, and it has been involved in resurrecting a multitude of games across a wide range of formats. Piko Interactive Collection 1 is a collection for Evercade…
“The Casino was an original idea from my imagination”. Ever since the release of issue #4 of Legends of the Dark Knight Volume 2 in 2021, people have been drawing comparisons online between the design of the Riddler’s Gotham Casino hideout and the casino area from Sonic Adventure’s Station Square. And it’s easy to see…
Telenet Japan’s 1987 MSX title has been translated into English. While Atlus is the video game company that is most often associated with Megami Tensei today, it’s important to note it wasn’t the first to try and adapt Aya Nishitani’s Digital Devil Story novels into an interactive medium. That honour instead belongs to the company…
“There will be 12 bookmarks in my game for you to print”. Ah, the Game Boy Printer – how we miss thee. One of the many leftfield accessories Nintendo has released during its history, this portable thermal printer allowed users to print off snaps they’d taken with the equally awesome Game Boy Camera – something…
Includes taking a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner. Released in 1989, the Japan-only NEC SuperGrafx is one of gaming’s greatest follies. Rushed to market in order to compete with the Sega Mega Drive, it is part of the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 family but contains only modest enhancements to the original system, which had arrived…
Player 2 can plug in and fire away! Matt Hughson, the creator of homebrew titles like From Below and Witch N’ Wiz, is currently working on a brand new Mario-Esque platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Super Sunny World and has recently revealed on Twitter that it will include NES Zapper functionality. The NES…
Are you brave enough to lead your pilots into the unknowns of outer space? Traverse through a number of environments in the re-imagining of this classic gravity-flyer coming soon to PS4 and PS5 There’s no solid release date beyond a somewhat vague ‘Spring 2024’ window right now, but if you’re a fan of the Atari…
The Blaze Taito Super Pocket (Hyper Mega Tech) not only sports 18 Taito arcade games, save states, scan lines, variable difficulty, and an included rechargeable battery, but also allows for expansion with already-established Blaze Evercade cartridges! Could this flavor of cart-based handheld be the net to take the market by storm? We run it through…
Love my Tetris, no doubt about it. I’m not very good at it, at least compared to CTWC-level competitors, but it’s a game I have fun on without a doubt and probably my most played video game. I now have the game in four different forms, my cabaret arcade machine, NES Tetris, GameBoy Tetris and…
No longer any need to buy the SBom Joycard controller! Back in 1997, Hudson released Saturn Bomberman Fight!! in Japan, a year after it had released its SBom Joycard controller. In a pioneering piece of commercial trickery that wouldn’t feel out of place in 2024’s DLC-ridden landscape, Hudson sneakily locked away three exclusive Battle Mode…