All Things Retro
“The Americans took to this like you wouldn’t believe”. The following is an edited extract from the book Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood, which explores the stories behind rare and unusual consoles, computers and coin-ops. In this chapter, Lewis focuses on the history of the 1990s company Virtuality, which pioneered virtual reality arcade…
You can now finally try out this epic RPG in English! Hudson Soft’s 1989 Japan-exclusive role-playing game Tengai Makyou: Ziria (otherwise known as Far East of Eden: Ziria) has just been translated into English, thanks to fans (as spotted by David Shadoff on Twitter). So if you’ve ever wanted to dig into this PC Engine…
Arrives December 14th. D4 Entertainment and Project EGG have revealed that the next title coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of its Console EGG series of rereleases will be Nihon Falcom’s PC-88 action RPG hit Xanadu (thanks gosokkyu!) The second game in the Dragon Slayer series, Xanadu was released for the PC-88 in…
Part of the ‘Robot Spirits’ series. Back in 1996, Bandai released the first entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny series, a trilogy of Sega Saturn games that has remained exclusive to Japan. Despite the lack of a Western localisation, the trilogy has gained a cult following among Gundam fans, thanks…
An interactive documentary coming from Digital Eclipse in 2024 Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the ’80s and ’90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Just revealed in the Day of the Devs showcase, Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is an interactive documentary coming to PC…
The project was leaked last year in an SEC filing. Update : Digital Eclipse has finally revealed that the next game in its Gold Masters series will be Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. The interactive documentary was unveiled at Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition earlier today, and will feature 42 titles from…
“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”. There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996…
There are more than you think… The Evercade family of systems is a glorious throwback to the days when physical media was king, and there was no such thing as a lengthy online update before loading up your game – but the range harks back to the past in other ways, too, such as the…
What a shodown! The Nintendo Entertainment System – or ‘NES‘ for short – may not have sold as many units as the PlayStation or Wii, but it remains one of the most influential consoles of all time. Not only did it resurrect the console sector in North America – arguably the world’s biggest market for…
Better yet, it’s free! The Sega Master System may have debuted in North America back in 1986, but games are still being released for the console all these years later, thanks to its amazing community of homebrew developers. Case in point — earlier this week, the developer badcomputer0 announced that they had released a brand…