Retro Gaming News
Score a 3.5mm jack without the financial pain. The Bandai WonderSwan was the final contribution of legendary designer Gunpei Yokoi, who had previously worked at Nintendo on its Game & Watch and Game Boy ranges. Released exclusively in Japan in 1999, it offered a low-cost and highly portable alternative to Nintendo’s products, but the fact…
Before Crisis was a 2004 cell-phone exclusive prequel to Final Fantasy VII. For the time ever, you can now watch some never-before-seen footage of Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII‘s lost Chocobo Racing mini-game, thanks to a group of feature phone preservationists. As you may or may not already be aware, over the last few years,…
Some people have been waiting since 2021. Polymega maker Playmaji has again teased the console’s Retro Gun Controller GC01 light gun, which went up for pre-order back in 2021. The much-delayed gun—based on the Sinden, which can be used with modern-day flatscreen TVs—was pushed into Q2 2024 so that it could “revised for additional compatibility…
“Everything this company does annoys me now”. If you’ve been keeping track of all the Switch 2 excitement, then you might be aware that the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack is getting some new features, including the ability to rewind gameplay and apply a CRT-style filter. Now, it’s understandable that Nintendo might make some of…
It marks five years of Evercade, so it should we expect something special? Tomorrow, the fourth Evercade Showcase will be broadcast and is likely to contain news about new cartridges and (possibly) new hardware. The last showcase revealed Neo Geo carts, new Super Pocket devices and more, so what could possibly be in store for…
“Unfortunately it has nothing to do with your favorite game”. The publisher ININ Games has recently announced it will soon be revealing a new “old” game it has been working on bringing back, but it seems, in an effort to keep expectations in check, it has warned Shenmue fans not to get too excited as…
“Stan’s vision of people running at each other is fun but ‘unique!’”. Created by Japanese-born American comic book artist Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo is a cult comic creation that originally debuted all the way back in 1984. First featured as a comic strip in Steve Gallacci’s anthology Albedo Anthropomorphics, and later in several issues of…
“Was hungover yesterday so I fired up GameMaker”. Andreas Yiannikaris, lead designer on titles such as OlliOlli 2 and Rollerdrome, has posted footage of a mash-up title he’s currently tinkering around with in GameMaker, and it’s looking very promising indeed. Lightgun Dungeon is described by Yiannikaris as “Dungeon Master x House of the Dead” and…
Only a single copy of TRIPITAKA is known to exist. When you’re talking about obscure video games, they don’t come much more obscure than 1993’s Cosmology of Kyoto, developed by Japanese studio SoftEdge. A nonlinear CD-ROM adventure, the game was lucky enough to get a Western release in 1994, and while it wasn’t commercially successful,…
‘Raw Fists’ is a new game from indie developer Joel Strange. If the constant new stories in the media about AI have got you fearing a Terminator-style uprising, then we have the perfect game for you — a promising new 8-bit-style action platformer from the indie developer and three LD Jam-winner Joel Strange, which allows…