Retro Gaming News
It’s crazy that this game has been out for over a decade and more people haven’t played it. Check out our retro review for yourself and see if you can get your hands on it. Hal Laboratory, the minds behind such iconic games the likes of “Kirby’s Dream Land, “The Adventures of Lolo” and even…
True 3D movement in 16-bit games? It almost happened… If you’re old enough to remember the crazy video game accessories we were exposed to in the early ’90s, then you might just recall a curious controller by the name of the Triax Turbo Touch 360. This groundbreaking controller didn’t use a traditional D-pad – which…
“Through creative and whimsical game design and execution, Think Quick Events Escape Room strives to create memorable experiences for all players. Our games allow everyone to enjoy escape rooms, regardless of age, ability, experience or background, and break through the trance of the digital screen, and forging trusted connections as human beings.” Think Quick Events…
Noritaka Funamizu, Akira Nishitani and Yoko Shimomura are all involved. Staff behind some of the most famous Japanese game franchises of all time are banding together to work on a new title that will be published by legendary shmup firm Cave. Currently operating under the working title ‘Kamitsuku Project’, the game is described as a…
“We want people to wonder if you’re swearing”. Remember when you used to play Sonic Heroes, and it sounded like Knuckles was saying a naughty word during his attacks? Well, it seems that was intentional – at least, that’s what his voice actor says. During a chat last month during Sac Gamers Expo 2024 (thanks,…
The latest port is the work of high school student ading2210. Just in case you had started to believe that people were entirely out of new and creative ideas for running Doom, a GitHub user and high school student ading2210 has recently taken it upon themselves to port the classic first-person shooter to run inside…
Arrives January 16th. Another Konami arcade game is heading to Arcade Archives, as reported by Famitsu. This time it’s the bizarre sports-action racing game Escape Kids. Escape Kids sees up to four players running around a bunch of different themed courses on foot avoiding obstacles like bombs while collecting speed boosts, items to sabotage the…
Futuristic racer has been in development for a while. Nintendo’s F-Zero launched alongside the Super Famicom / SNES and gave players a taste of what the system was capable of thanks to its smoothly-rotating Mode 7 tracks. While the Amiga can’t replicate this graphic mode, it’s getting an F-Zero-style racer which at least aims to…
Version 0.8 is available now. Princess Crown is arguably one of the Sega Saturn’s best games, but it sadly never got released outside of Japan, meaning that very few people actually got to play it. Directed by George Kamitani, who would later found Vanillaware, this 1997 action RPG has had unofficial translation projects attached to…
PRE-ORDER HERE P-47 II MD is based on the 1988 arcade shooting game ‘P-47’, released by Jaleco. The game was secretly developed in 1990 under the title ‘P-47Ⅱ FREEDOM STAR’ as Jaleco’s first entry into the MD platform. Although completed, its release was canceled due to the circumstances of the time. Now, 35 years later,…