Retro Gaming News
Who wanted New Kids on the Block: The Official Video Game back in the day? As long as video games have been around, we’ve had unreleased titles—and the NES has its fair share of those, as The Video Game History Foundation’s recent GDC 2025 exhibition attests. The VGHF has a history of unearthing and highlighting…
“I wanted to communicate only that part — this game is too hard”. In a recent video interview, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida opened up about the process of selling Crash Bandicoot to the Japanese market. This included providing an amazing explanation as to why the game was made easier for Japanese players, and…
A Treasure trove of inspiration. Japanese studio Treasure is responsible for some of the most awe-inspiring video games of the ’90s and 2000s, but the company has been sadly silent for some time now, with its last new release being 2014’s Gaist Crusher God on Nintendo 3DS. If you miss Treasure’s signature style, then you…
Flippin’ brilliant. AYANEO may be famous for its gaming-focused handhelds, but the company has also produced other products, including the AM01 and AM02 mini PCs. The AM02 was notable for offering a secondary display on the body of the PC itself, showing elements such as running temperature and power output. Read the full article on…
“Don’t expect something stellar in the writing department”. An English fan translation has been released for the 1992 adventure game Cyber Arms Val-Kaizer (otherwise known as Kikou Soushin Val-Kaizer). This is a short, roughly 2-hour ADV from the developer Silence that was released for the NEC PC-98 exclusively in Japan, and is said to feature…
Games That Weren’t performs another miracle. After becoming a tremendous success on platforms like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, EA and Bullfrog Productions’ legendary God Sim Populous was ported to all manner of machines. However, it surprisingly never ended up getting a retail version for the Nintendo Entertainment System — one of the leading…
This will Omake you happy. Yuzo Koshiro’s Mega Drive shmup Earthion is close to release, and the legendary composer and game designer is putting the finishing touches to its soundtrack. It seems that Koshiro—who has created tracks for titles such as Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, ActRaiser and Etrian Odyssey—has been truly inspired when…
The build is dated January 2013. A four-hour playthrough of an early lost version of Until Dawn has been uploaded to YouTube, as spotted by VGC. The gameplay footage is from when Supermassive was developing the project as a first-person title for the PS Move and is from a build dated January 2013, which hasn’t…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Eugene Jarvis, who is displayed on card number 144 from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Eugene is also featured on cards 654, 654A, 714 and 1681. Eugene, who started his career in the pinball world has created some of the most memorable games in history. After leaving Atari early in…
“Cursed timeline?”. Street Fighter II’s incredible success in the early ’90s saw it (or one of its many incremental sequels) ported to a wide range of different systems, including the SNES, Mega Drive, 3DO PC Engine, Game Boy, Amiga and more. One platform that sadly lacked any Street Fighter II action was the Philips CD-i,…