All Things Retro
“We were told not to treat McDonald’s burgers with such disrespect”. This year gave us a welcome instance of a major commercial brand doing something fun with a video game when McDonald’s commissioned Grimace’s Birthday for the Game Boy Color. The title – coded by Gumpy Function and Pearacidic – was made with passion and…
Arriving tomorrow! Hamster has revealed that it will be bringing Namco’s obscure multi-directional shooter Warp & Warp (otherwise known in North America as Warp Warp) to Nintendo Switch & PS4 on November 22nd (thanks Gosokkyu!). Released in Japanese and North American arcades back in 1981, Warp & Warp puts players in control of a monster…
Time flies. N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is 25 years old today. Released in Japan on November 21st 1998, the N64 action adventure redefined the Zelda series, bringing it into 3D for the first time ever. Created by a core team including Eiji Aonuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Kensuke Tanabe and series creator…
Six of the best from Irem. Irem is best known today for its genre-defining R-Type series, and this collection for the Evercade includes the game that kicked off that famous lineage. R-Type is comfortably the biggest reason to invest in this pack, but it’s joined by some equally commendable picks from the Japanese developer’s history….
We have explosive. WipEout exploded onto the scene in 1995 and proved to be an instrumental release in the PlayStation’s Western launch lineup. Its combination of fast racing action, a pumping techno soundtrack and impeccable graphic design (thanks to The Designers Republic) resulted in a critical and commercial smash, and WipEout went on to become…
The Japanese computer that gave the world Metal Gear. 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the MSX, the Japanese computer standard that ran from 1983 to 1993 and spanned dozens of hardware variations from manufacturers such as Sony, Philips, Panasonic and many more. The MSX was most popular in Japan, but also had its fair…
It even includes a retro mode for old school fans. As spotted by Gosokkyu, Devil Blade, a 1996 vertical shoot ’em up for the original PlayStation, appears to be getting a modern reboot from its original creator for Windows PCs. The game was originally developed by Shigatake, a Japanese illustrator known for their work with…
Some more great retro gaming news for you all, as we’ve just been given the heads up through our Facebook group, that Alarsoft who was behind great conversions and new games such as Galaxian, Hyper Harvest, and Galaga, has now turned his attention to the 1982 game of Burger Time. A new C64 conversion which was originally…
The demo came preloaded on all P903i devices. A lost piece of Final Fantasy VII history has just been preserved, thanks to a group of researchers of Japanese feature phones. As reported on Twitter by RockmanCosmo, the demo of Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode, which came pre-installed on DoCoMo p903i feature phone devices, has now…
This follows last year’s patch for the PS1 version. Last year saw a group of hackers create an English fan translation for the PlayStation 1 port of System Sacom and Bandai’s obscure horror game R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital. And now it appears that another fan translation is now in the works for the game —…