All Things Retro
“We can’t compete with these corporate f*****s”. Former Sensible Software boss Jon Hare has delivered a blistering rant in the direction of EA Sports FC as he prepares to release the latest version of Sociable Soccer across PC and consoles. Hare created Sensible Soccer back in the ’90s, a football game which, in the eyes…
Shell grabbing! Backwards scrolling! P-Switches! A team of ROM hackers led by AleFunky has just released Super Ale Bros. Redux, a new hack for the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. which drastically modifies the game in a bunch of cool ways. This ASM hack (which means it has been written in Assembly) introduces elements which…
The hardcore gamer’s micro-console. Since Nintendo reinvented the micro console with the NES Classic Edition in 2016, the retro console market has become a mini-industry all of its own, with a surprising number delving into increasingly hardcore territory. Now, perhaps the most obscure and luxurious mini console of all is finally here. Developed by Zuiki,…
The game was originally released back in 1993. As spotted by Game Vecanti over on Twitter, an English translation patch for the PC-98 eroge strategy-action game Shangrlia 2 has just been released by BabaJeanmel (one of the fans behind the recent translation for all 12 episodes of Jewel BEM Hunter Lime for PC-98). This marks…
Ridge Racer turns 30 today. When Ridge Racer first burst into arcades on October 30th, 1993 (that’s an incredible 30 years ago today), it felt like the dawn of a new generation. Namco’s 3D title was comfortably the cutting edge of video game graphics at that point, effortlessly outclassing Sega’s Virtua Racing from the year…
“Run you pigeons! It’s Robert Frost!”. LucasArts’ classic 3D adventure game Grim Fandango was released 25 years ago today on Friday, October 30th, 1998 for Windows PCs. The game was the first LucasArts title to be developed using the GrimE engine (instead of the tried and true SCUMM engine used on LucasArts’ previous adventure games)…
Coming December 15th exclusively for PC. Shenmue Dojo, the popular Shenmue fansite, posted a first look at a promising new fan game that will be arriving on PC on December 15th. The short fan game called A Shenmue Story is being developed by the musician George Kitchen in Unity and will take place at Christmas….
Call of Duty is now 20 years old. Activision’s Call of Duty series is a commercial monster. Since its inception twenty years ago (it launched on October 29th, 2003), it has sold more than 425 million copies worldwide and is comfortably the best-selling FPS franchise of all time. Its astonishing and prolonged sales success over…
Take to the skies! Atari Age has announced that Rocket Ranger, Cinemaware’s action-adventure game inspired by The Rocketeer comics, is getting a port for the Atari Jaguar that will be arriving on its store. Originally released in 1988 for the Commodore Amiga, Rocket Ranger has also been published for the Atari ST, MS-DOS, Commodore 64,…
“You guys wanna play Doom?”. Matthew Perry (left) with Jason Bergman, who worked as Senior Producer on Fallout: New Vegas, in which Perry voiced the role of Benny As you’re probably already aware, Matthew Perry passed away at the weekend, aged just 54. It goes without saying that he was most famous for bringing to…