Retro Gaming News
Was written by Final Fantasy alumni Kenji Terada. The Casio Loopy is one of many consoles released in the ’90s which failed to make the impact intended by its manufacturer. Like the PC-FX, Bandai Pippin and FM Towns Marty, it was exclusive to Japan, but was unique in that it included a built-in thermal printer…
Was planned for Amiga, Mega Drive and PC. We’ve now got fresh information and images of the cancelled Warhammer racing game Kult of Speed, thanks to Games That Weren’t and Steve Cook. Planned for release by Electronic Arts in 1994 on the Amiga, Mega Drive and MS-DOS PC, the game features Ork racers on motorcycles…
The video shows footage of an earlier build of the game. Given its incredible influence on the world of gaming, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that fans of Super Mario 64 have spent the last couple of decades doing all they can to find out more about the development of the…
“This is my present to the Xeno-community!”. A Xenosaga fan named CycloneFox has just released a fan recreation of the Japan-exclusive mobile title Xenosaga Pied Piper for PC & Mac OS. The fan recreation had previously been available as a demo on itch.io but has since hit version 1.0, as of two days ago. It…
“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”. Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s. While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to…
On March 1st, Paragon 5 opened up its remix contest for the classic Game Boy Color game Project S-11, which has recently seen a rerelease for the Chromatic by ModRetro. The original 8-bit soundtrack, by Finnish composers Jonne Valtonen and Aleksi Eeben, has a strong reputation in its own right beyond the top-down shooter…
Live broadcast and sale have also taken place. Japanese company City Connection turns 20 this year, and has a series of releases and events planned to mark the occasion. Taking its name from a Jaleco title, City Connection managed to pick up Jaleco’s IP when its parent company Game Yarou declared bankruptcy in 2014. Since…
Even more great retro gaming news for this week, as we have just learnt that TIX with the help of Paul Lay, has released an Atari XL/XE rom hack of ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’, which overhauls the game giving it new lease of life. Montezuma was originally released in the early 80’s for the Atari 2600, Atari…
What’s a better way to enjoy a Flashback on a Friday than to talk about Pokemon? Here’s our list of five Pokemon that deserve new evolutions that can either change their perceptions entirely or give them even more value. Audino: They need better than a mega evolution! This guy is a pushover in singles bouts,…
“I didn’t know anything about what other people in the gaming industry were doing”. In December 1996, Sony Computer Entertainment published the video game PaRappa the Rapper in Japan – a groundbreaking title about a paper-thin rapping dog on a quest to win the heart of his beloved (a humanoid flower named Sunny Funny). Developed…