Retro Gaming News
Arriving this July! In a surprise move, Plaion and Atari revealed earlier today that they will be bringing out a new version Toaplan’s arcade classic Tiger-Heli later this year, for the Atari 2600+, Atari 7800, and Atari 7800+. The new port will mark the first time the game has ever officially been released on Atari…
Pixel perfect? When I reviewed the Game Kiddy Pixel last year, I praised its screen, design and pocket-friendly size, but only felt comfortable awarding it 7/10. There was clearly a lot of room for improvement, and now, under a year later, here I am reviewing its successor, the Pixel 2. At first glance, not much…
Nakano TRF will close for good on May 18th. The owners of the legendary Tokyo game center Nakano TRF (Nakano Tokyo Ranking Fighters) announced yesterday that it will be closing its doors for good later this year, in yet another blow to Japan’s struggling arcade scene. Nakano TRF first started operating in 2004, and over…
200 million files and 650 TB have been preserved so far. At this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, a senior build engineer at PlayStation named Garrett Fredley gave a talk, entitled Preserving the Past for the Future: A PlayStation Case Study. The talk, which has since been written up by GamesRadar staff (who were in attendance),…
“It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!”. Yesterday, Nintendo lifted the lid on Switch 2, its next hybrid console, which launches this June and will cost $450. There were plenty of big announcements—which you can read about here—but for retro fans, the confirmation that GameCube games are coming to Nintendo Switch…
Katamari Rolling LIVE is an Apple Arcade exclusive. A new Katamari Damacy game is launching today, ending an eight-year wait for an all-new entry in the series. But there’s a slight catch for those who will want to give it a try. For the moment, at least, Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE — the first entirely…
‘Survival Kids’ debuted in 1999 on the Game Boy Color. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct was crammed full of so much news that it was easy to overlook an announcement or two while focusing on some of the bigger reveals like the Nintendo Switch release date, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Mario Kart World. A pretty good example…
Tetris’s “Minuet” for Game Boy was only ever released in Japan. There are probably few people in this world you’d expect to know more about Tetris than Henk Rogers. After all, the Dutch-American businessman was not only responsible for cutting the deal to bring Tetris to the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989 but also later…
Arrives this June. In today’s Nintendo Direct, it was announced that Namco’s iconic arcade racing game Ridge Racer will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2, as part of Arcade Archives 2, later this year. It will be available when the Nintendo Switch 2 launches later this year on June 5th, 2025. The news was shared…
Walter Day Books Are NOW IN (and the movie is in theaters) If you are going to be at the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend, save Saturday at 7 p.m. for the showing of the new Walter Day Movie and make sure to stop by the meet-and-greet at the Old School Gamer Booth. We will have…