Retro Gaming News
We contacted Next Level Games employees past and present to verify recent reports. If you’ve been following the recent news around the Punch-Out!! series, you may have read an article or two, suggesting that the series is now essentially dead and buried following criticism aimed at the characters in Next Level Games’ 2009 entry. Well,…
“Everything is legal, legit and squared away this time”. If you cast your mind back to 2021, you may remember the retro enthusiast and artist Philip Summers starting a campaign on Kickstarter for a series of hand-drawn game guides for a bunch of NES classics like The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden….
Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yoko even make a cameo! Scrolling through Twitter today can often be a bit of a miserable experience today thanks to the countless ads for scam products and the abundance of AI-generated slop that tends to populate the newsfeed. But every so often, it’s still possible to come across something truly…
Gamestation Retro Pro aims to deliver “a unique retro gaming experience”. With CES in full swing, one of the big topics of conversation relates to the Nintendo Switch 2, a product which most people seem to be familiar with but hasn’t actually been officially shown off yet. If you’re sick of seeing Switch 2 reports…
Another VS. System game makes the trip to Switch & PS4. Hamster has announced that Namco’s VS. Family Tennis will be released on Nintendo Switch and PS4, as reported by Famitsu. VS. Family Tennis is as the title suggests a tennis game, which lets players select from 16 different characters. Read the full article on…
Coming to Kickstarter soon. It might seem lazy to compare a Linux-based modular pocket computer to the Game Boy, but I’m going to do it anyway – mainly because the Mecha Comet is giving me serious DMG vibes I just can’t ignore. This dinky device is powered by the Linux-based Mechanix OS and offers official…
Wedding Peach was originally released for the Super Famicom in 1995. A new translation has just been released for the Super Famicom party game Wedding Peach. The game was originally released exclusively for the Super Famicom in Japan in 1995 and was developed by Shimada Kikaku and published by KSS. It is based on the…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Tom Asaki who is displayed on card number 1046, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. As one of the founding members of the U.S. National Video Game Team, Tom is one of the original players at the Twin Galaxies arcade in the early 1980’s. He was the first to…
Alongside two other Dragon Ball games that were also at risk of disappearing for good. The video game hacker/archivist YuviApp revealed yesterday on social media that he had managed to preserve three previously lost Dragon Ball i-Mode games, including Dragon Ball RPG, Dragon Ball RPG Trial, and Dragon Ball Wars. Dragon Ball RPG is a…
The jaw-dropping demo is available now. A new demo has just been released for the eagerly anticipated Super Mario 64 ROM hack Return to Yoshi’s Island, allowing players to take an updated look at the jaw-dropping fan project. Return to Yoshi’s Island, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is a new Super Mario 64 adventure…