All Things Retro
“When we first made this work, it felt like magic”. It’s almost remarkable to think that Rez is now over 20 years old – especially when you consider it has recently been used to showcase the PSVR2’s much-hyped eye-tracking technology. If you look at games that launched around the same time as Rez in 2001…
About the Game The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ) is a parody/homage side-scroller where you set out to resurrect and re-kill Dracula to one-up your rival! Conquer haunted mansions, discover minigames in the overworld, and win back the glory in this modern retro Classicvania! With customizable settings and classic aesthetics, The Transylvania Adventure of…
8-Bit Legit & CollectorVision/Acclaim Bringing a Brand-New Point and Click Adventure to Nintendo Switch, Xbox & NES. Jan. 12, 2024 (Pittsburgh, P.A.) – Dead Tomb is a brand-new fun, point and click adventure game that will take you back to the heyday of retro gaming. Your employer sends you on a study that takes you back in time,…
This is possibly the first review of the Atari Game Station Pro by MyArcade in a video gaming magazine, but it absolutely isn’t the only review out there. The MyArcade crew got these out to a ton of YouTube influencers and I recommend you check out the reviews by Jon of MyGenX Gamer and John…
How NewKidCo gambled it all on E.T. with disastrous results. If you have even a passing interest in video game history, you’ve probably heard the story of Atari’s disastrous E.T. adaptation, which saw unsold copies of the game being buried out in the New Mexico desert and blamed as one of the contributing factors to…
Physical releases to kick off 2024. Last year, Retro-Bit announced it was publishing licenced reissues of Hammerin’ Harry, Hammerin’ Harry 2, El Viento and Sol Deace – and we’ve been lucky enough to get sample copies of them. Released in Japanese arcades in 1990 as Daiku no Gen-san: Beranmechō Sōdōki, Hammerin’ Harry was ported to…
Hyperkin Announces Handheld Console Compatible With Genesis® and Mega Drive Cartridges January 12, 2024 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles-based video game hardware developer, Hyperkin, has announced they are developing a handheld console, the Mega 95, compatible with original Genesis® and Mega Drive cartridges. In the past decade, Hyperkin has released, to much acclaim, the SupaBoy…
“if we only had to send the data, distribution becomes much more doable”. If you’ve been checking the website regularly this week, you’ll know that we’ve been posting some previously unpublished (in English, at least) materials that we had translated while researching various topics related to Nintendo. Well, here’s another one that we had hiding…
“I think it’s the best-designed game we’ve ever made”. Ste and John Pickford have been making video games for decades, starting with humble home micros like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 before graduating to the NES and SNES as the ’90s dawned. Such was the prestigious talent of these skilful siblings that their company…
Let’s go away. Sega’s reputation in the world of arcade machines is almost unrivalled; while many of its competitors have fallen by the wayside over the years, the company continues to produce coin-op machines even in 2024 and has decades of glorious history behind it, stretching all the way back to the days before video…