All Things Retro
Update: New demo coming soon. Update #2 (Mon 1st Jan, 2024 13:45 GMT): Looks like we’ll be getting a new version of the Mega Final Fight demo soon, which will incorporate the first three stages of the game: Update #1 (Sun 25th Dec, 2022 19:45 GMT): The demo is now available: Read the full article…
“The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge”. Let me tell you a true story, readers: I was a staff writer at Imagine Publishing circa 2006, and we had to make some sort of short list of Game Boy games, a Top 6 or something, for either GamesTM or…
Old School Gamer chats with Flap Happy developed Ryan Carson, who discusses the game’s development cycle and current Kickstarter. Support the game on Kickstarter here. Old School Gamer: How was this game born? Ryan Carson: Initially, Flap Happy came from a simple decision, “I reckon I can make this as a NES game” After having…
“I barely interact with human beings these days”. Even before struggling to create fire, the stars have been mankind’s biggest dream. Oh, to one day reach and explore them, finally find out what is behind that blanket of darkness and light that keeps us sleeping and, sometimes, awake, for hours every day. It is that…
Growing up with the NES, there was a few games in the library that continue to grow strong even today. One of those is most defiantly the Mega Man series. The NES produced the first six games in the franchise. Some of these games are hard to come by and are a bit expensive at…
“It was for the American market, so let’s have the Americans do it”. The Menacer was yet another skirmish in the ongoing war between Nintendo and Sega in the early nineties. Nintendo brought out a light gun – the Super Scope for the SNES – so of course Sega had to have one, too. But…
“To this day, every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional”. On Tuesday, July 27th, 1982, the video game designer/programmer Howard Scott Warshaw accepted a call from his bosses at Atari, asking him to put together the video game tie-in to Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. He…
3D classics. In many ways, it’s hard to believe the 3DS is a ‘dead’ system, because the gimmick of glasses-free 3D is still amazing, even a decade later. Following in the footsteps of the Nintendo DS – the company’s most successful hardware ever, with 154.02 million units sold – was never going to be easy,…
“How can we make a 3D platform game?”. Banjo-Kazooie. Crash Bandicoot. Spyro the Dragon. And yes, Super Mario 64. These names are synonymous with defining the 3D platformer, exploring the uncharted territories of the third dimension and taking players on a journey far grander than going from the left side of the screen to the…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Venom: When the legendary Mark Tremonti expressed his desire to be part of an exciting new Stern pinball, there was no doubt in our minds—it had to be Venom! Dive…