All Things Retro
Help solve the strange case of a missing woman! When you think of horror games, the Game Boy might not be the first platform that immediately springs to mind, but nonetheless, the recent homebrew The Melting Apartment from Flower Studio is a short yet effective spine-tingler that we think is well worth your time (thanks…
Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin. Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom’s code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew Plotkin (cheers Ars Technica for the spot!). This comes four years after the internet archivist Jason Scott published…
Man At Arms: Reforged originally created the sword back in 2019. We’re always amazed when someone takes the time to authentically recreate something from a video game in real life, and even more so, when it has something to do with one of our favourite video game series of all time: Castlevania. So when Man…
Only you can prevent a gravy drenched future! Back in 1984, IBM introduced a new display standard for their IBM line of personal computers. Enhanced Graphics Adapter or EGA (as it was often abbreviated) was a vast improvement over the CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) standard that was introduced earlier in 1981 and could produce up…
Build it and they will come. Sega’s final home console is one that many people hold close to their hearts, and for good reason. The Dreamcast was home to some incredible arcade-perfect conversions – including Crazy Taxi 2, Virtua Tennis 2 and Power Stone 2 – as well as epic adventures like Shenmue, Skies of…
It’s nice to have a dream. Sega’s final throw of the hardware dice before it became a third-party publisher, the Dreamcast only sold 9.13 million units worldwide – that’s less than the Nintendo Wii U – yet its impact is somehow much greater than that figure would suggest. Today, it is fondly remembered by fans…
Including Sonic Adventure and Sonic Jam. As everybody is busy elsewhere celebrating 25 years since the release of the Sega Dreamcast in Japan, Satoshi Okano, a former Sega of Japan artist, has started publishing a ton of incredible, previously unseen concept art from various Sonic the Hedgehog projects over on Twitter. Satoshi Okano got his…
“Would’ve been magnificent”. Industry veteran and former Psynosis and Eidos staffer Richard Browne has revealed on social media that we almost got a VR version of Geoff Crammond’s utterly iconic video game The Sentinel. The game would have been licenced by Domark, the UK publisher which would eventually become part of the Eidos empire in…
The Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Podcast and Blog is your regular dose of retro gaming fun! They will cover whole episodes on single retro gaming classics, discuss the latest retro news and topics, broadcast interviews with some of the true legends of the industry or whatever else may take our fancy! Arcade Attack is an…
‘Memories of Firebird’ is available to preorder now. If you happened to be around in the days when microcomputers were king, you may be aware of Firebird Sofware. The British publisher was established in 1984 as a publishing arm of Telecomsoft and was responsible for releasing a bunch of classic games like Booty, Thrust, Elite,…