Retro Gaming News
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: Stern Pinball’s Silverball: While Chicago might have the bean….we have the ball. Stern Pinball Cup: Compete against players worldwide in an exciting series of week-long pinball races. It’s not about…
“The last remaining *official* way to play SOR1 online with a friend”. Nintendo recently updated the Mega Drive / Genesis portion of its Nintendo Switch Online offering, bringing three new games: Streets of Rage, Super Thunder Blade, and ESWAT: City Under Siege. As spotted by Gaming Hell on BlueSky, the addition of Streets of Rage…
Get ready for some ’90s humour. Ever since GungHo announced that it was remastering Game Arts’ classic Lunar JRPGs for modern systems, one of the burning questions was whether the updated titles would use Working Designs’ original Western localisations, which accompanied the games when they were initially launched back in the ’90s and early 2000s….
Questions it seems the studio doesn’t want to answer, for now. In a recent interview with VGC, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick revealed more about why the company’s Goldeneye 007 pitch wasn’t picked up, but his answers have only seemed to have raised more questions in the game’s community. Speaking to VGC’s Andy Robinson about its…
“I’ve been being beat by shit chess code since the early ’80s”. It may be the buzzword of the current tech revolution, but AI has been part of our lives for quite some time—especially if you’re a fan of video games. AI has powered pretty much any single-player experience since the dawn of gaming, and…
If you have an Amstrad CPC and looking for another game to play through this week, then thanks to a heads up via Saberman, Liqmatrix and XeNoMoRPH, we’ve been told that Fitosoft has released a new game for the Amstrad called ‘Transylvania Castle’; an arcade platformer in which you need to traverse all the levels…
The last news story from me unless something major comes out, as the previously announced Amiga shooter of ‘Hyper Wings’ by Geldo79, has hit the big 2.2 with a final version! An Asteroids and Star Control mash up which was developed in ASM. To coincide with this news, while we did feature the game before,…
Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. counts down the best wrestling games in video game history that are over 10 years old, ranging from arcade favorites to…the Gamecube. Do you know them all? 10: WWF Warzone: While the controls mirrored a Capcom fighting game, Warzone’s fun create-a-wrestler made for an enjoyable title that could…
For gamers who prefer the classics, settling down for a session on a retro computer or opting to play a former favorite on a modern-day console appeals. While many games of today are hogging the limelight, there is still an appetite for some of yesteryear’s classics. In fact, the options are extensive these days. Although…
Available to pre-order now from Strictly Limited Games. Last month, Giants Software, the developer behind the hugely successful Farming Simulator series, announced via a trailer on its YouTube channel that it would be releasing Farming Simulator 16-Bit — a new retro demake of the classic sim for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. And it’s now…