All Things Retro
10,000 games have now been registered in its database. The Embracer Games Archive announced today in a blog post that it has hit a significant new milestone in its preservation efforts, having successfully registered its 10,000th game in its database. Embracer revealed the existence of the Games Archive group back in May 2022 and has…
With new visuals and improved mechanics. Forever Entertainment, the company behind remakes of Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead and Front Mission, has officially announced that it is remaking Data East’s classic 1993 side-scrolling brawler, Night Slashers, validating reports from 2021 that such a project was underway. The game boasts a cast of monster-hunting fighters…
Sega unable to provide a service that will “satisfy” players. It has been announced that 404 Game Re:set, a collaboration between Yoko Taro (NieR: Automata) and Sega, is closing down (thanks, Eurogamer). Released on iOS and Android in Japan in April of this year, the game takes place in a world that is “twisted by…
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse.” For kids who grew up in the 1990s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was practically a right of passage. Along with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books (the television series wouldn’t begin until 1996) and Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories…
Dead of the Brain originally released on the PC-98 back in 1992. If you fancy checking out something scary this Halloween, then we have the perfect thing for you. As announced by David Shadoff earlier today on Twitter, the 1999 port of Dead of the Brain for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² has just received…
Husband Pete Sampras reveals diagnosis. Former tennis champion Pete Sampras has revealed that his wife, Bridgette Wilson Sampras, has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Wilson has starred in Hollywood movies such as Last Action Hero (1993), Billy Madison (1995), House on Haunted Hill (1999) and The Wedding Planner (2001), but will be most famous with…
New book looks at the company’s glorious Mega Drive era. While titles like Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga still have the power to attract attention today (the former recently came to Switch and arrives on Steam soon), it’s fair to say that Japanese developer Treasure’s best days are well and truly behind it. Its last game…
And there’s a demo too! Originally debuting on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, Castlevania has been released on countless other consoles and computers over the years, but not every port was created equal. In 1990, the Hungarian developer Novotrade released a disappointing version of the Famicom classic on the Commodore Amiga, provoking a fair…
200% louder! There’s a whole community around restoring and upgrading vintage hardware these days, and we’re big fans of the fact that it’s now possible to augment the abilities of your classic systems with things like new screens, batteries, controllers and AV capabilities. Take the CleanAmp Duo, for example; designed from the ground up by…
Expected to complete in the next few days. Atari has announced its intention to purchase Digital Eclipse, the studio responsible for such titles as Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary, SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and The Making of Karateka. “The acquisition of Digital Eclipse will…