Retro Gaming News
‘Survival Kids’ debuted in 1999 on the Game Boy Color. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct was crammed full of so much news that it was easy to overlook an announcement or two while focusing on some of the bigger reveals like the Nintendo Switch release date, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Mario Kart World. A pretty good example…
Tetris’s “Minuet” for Game Boy was only ever released in Japan. There are probably few people in this world you’d expect to know more about Tetris than Henk Rogers. After all, the Dutch-American businessman was not only responsible for cutting the deal to bring Tetris to the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989 but also later…
Arrives this June. In today’s Nintendo Direct, it was announced that Namco’s iconic arcade racing game Ridge Racer will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2, as part of Arcade Archives 2, later this year. It will be available when the Nintendo Switch 2 launches later this year on June 5th, 2025. The news was shared…
Walter Day Books Are NOW IN (and the movie is in theaters) If you are going to be at the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend, save Saturday at 7 p.m. for the showing of the new Walter Day Movie and make sure to stop by the meet-and-greet at the Old School Gamer Booth. We will have…
Available to order now. Tokihiro Naito, creator of the seminal Hydlide series, has produced a new game for the MSX2 computer system. XeGrader is a “fantasy shooting game,” which Naito says “might be easiest to describe as a puzzle-solving adventure shooter.” Unlike traditional shmups, power-up items aren’t present; instead, upgrades are earned by solving puzzles….
“I was just zoning out, thinking about random game ideas”. When people in the past talk about the inspirations behind Capcom’s arcade fighting series Street Fighter, they typically default to discussing the role of Irem’s Spartan X (better known as Kung Fu Master in North America) — and for pretty good reasons too. Both games…
Saturn Ring Library goes live. Saturn’s dual processors made it a bit of a headache for developers back in the day, and modern-day homebrew creators are running into similar problems when it comes to creating new software for the 32-bit system. Thankfully, it sounds like things are going to get a lot easier due to…
“Needless to say, these aren’t real screenshots”. Despite launching on the humble Game Boy, Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge is considered by some fans to be one of the best entries in Konami’s long-running franchise. It offers tight and enjoyable gameplay, impressive visuals and one of the best soundtracks in Castlevania history—so, as you can imagine,…
‘Assault Plus’ was originally released in 1988. Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, has revealed that it will be bringing the multi-directional tank game Assault Plus to PS4 & Nintendo Switch starting tomorrow (April 3rd) (thanks GameWatch!). Originally released exclusively in Japan in 1988 — the same year as its predecessor — Assault Plus is…
“I’m very proud to have been part of the repair effort”. 1979’s Galaxian was Namco’s answer to Taito’s Space Invaders, but would later evolve into something a little more unique. 1990’s Galaxian 3: Project Dragoon used Laserdisc technology to present players with an immersive 3D environment inside an impressive circular cabinet installation, delivering a rail-shooter…