Retro Gaming News
Do you feel lucky? This week’s Arcade Archives title is a deep cut from Konami. Released in 1990, Punk Shot is a two-on-two street basketball title in which players have the ability to physically attack their rivals (you can even suplex people). Read the full article on timeextension.com Do you feel lucky? This week’s Arcade…
“We want to offer an environment for you to play them”. Capcom has been doing a pretty decent job of mining its back catalogue of one-on-one fighting games recently, having released Capcom Fighting Collection, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics in recent years. In fact, the company has been…
Monkey Wrench Films has announced a global TVOD and digital release for the documentary Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day which came out in theaters earlier this year. The musical documentary about Walter Day discusses the lawsuits faced by the founder of Twin Galaxies as he also seeks to record and…
It’s strange to think of tower defense games as being a retro concept. Of course, depending on how strictly you define the phrase tower defense, they were there from the beginning. Defender, for example. But usually, when we say tower defense today, we’re referring to games from the early cell phone era, where you…
A bit of a short news story for this one, as trawling through Facebook, we’ve found out through Earok who created the Scorpion Engine, that Basement Ape is working on what looks to be a new beat ’em up platformer for the Commodore Amiga, using yes you guessed it, the Scorpion Engine. While there is…
Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon was originally released in 1998. Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon, a 1998 Japan-exclusive dungeon crawling spin-off to Compile’s popular Puyo Puyo series of puzzle games for the Sega Saturn, has just got a new fan translation, as recently revealed on social media. The patch is the work of the fan…
“He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game […] and they all crashed.”. In a new interview with PlayStationInside, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida has shared a story, in which he claims to have “partly saved” the original Gran Turismo from failure by convincing its developers to tone down the handling of the…
Limited Run Games Presents – RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Collector’s Edition Limited Run Games is proud to announce their not-to-be-missed physical Collector’s Edition of this retelling of Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army™ in an all-new remaster of the thrilling supernatural detective adventure set in a fantastical era of 1930s Tokyo….
Coming to Steam later this year. Yuzo Koshiro has been a busy man. Not only has he been hard at work recently finishing Earthion, his upcoming Mega Drive shmup (which is also coming to PC & consoles), but he has also continued offering his services as a freelance composer, with the latest of these projects…
Update: We also finally have some footage of the game in action. Video System’s classic ’90s shmup series Sonic Wings / Aero Fighters is getting a brand-new game, it has been revealed. Success – the company behind Cotton – is going to be producing this sequel, and series composer Soshi Hosoi will be returning. Read…