Retro Gaming News
“Don’t expect something stellar in the writing department”. An English fan translation has been released for the 1992 adventure game Cyber Arms Val-Kaizer (otherwise known as Kikou Soushin Val-Kaizer). This is a short, roughly 2-hour ADV from the developer Silence that was released for the NEC PC-98 exclusively in Japan, and is said to feature…
Games That Weren’t performs another miracle. After becoming a tremendous success on platforms like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, EA and Bullfrog Productions’ legendary God Sim Populous was ported to all manner of machines. However, it surprisingly never ended up getting a retail version for the Nintendo Entertainment System — one of the leading…
This will Omake you happy. Yuzo Koshiro’s Mega Drive shmup Earthion is close to release, and the legendary composer and game designer is putting the finishing touches to its soundtrack. It seems that Koshiro—who has created tracks for titles such as Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, ActRaiser and Etrian Odyssey—has been truly inspired when…
The build is dated January 2013. A four-hour playthrough of an early lost version of Until Dawn has been uploaded to YouTube, as spotted by VGC. The gameplay footage is from when Supermassive was developing the project as a first-person title for the PS Move and is from a build dated January 2013, which hasn’t…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Eugene Jarvis, who is displayed on card number 144 from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Eugene is also featured on cards 654, 654A, 714 and 1681. Eugene, who started his career in the pinball world has created some of the most memorable games in history. After leaving Atari early in…
“Cursed timeline?”. Street Fighter II’s incredible success in the early ’90s saw it (or one of its many incremental sequels) ported to a wide range of different systems, including the SNES, Mega Drive, 3DO PC Engine, Game Boy, Amiga and more. One platform that sadly lacked any Street Fighter II action was the Philips CD-i,…
“Yes, the claw controller is fully functional. No, it is not comfortable to use”. When League of Legends concept artist Anh Dang came up with the crab-like “PlayStacean” console, she couldn’t possibly have realised that this amusing pun would, one day, become a fully functional console—but that’s precisely what has happened. Modder GingerOfMods has taken…
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was panned at the time of release. You’d be fair to say that it doesn’t really deserve it, but Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is getting another chance to ‘shine’ thanks to a release on Steam. If you haven’t heard of this game before, consider yourself fortunate. Published…
Daniel Ibbertson of Slope’s Game Room breaks it all down. The SuperSega Scandal has had more twists and turns than a Green Hill Zone gaming marathon. Every time you think that it’s all over, the company does something more mind-boggling than before. You had that time when they released a video almost crashing a Lamborghini….
“Everything I learned about Dreamcast for Doom 64 applies”. The legendary PS1 racer WipEout is being unofficially ported to the Sega Dreamcast by jnmartin84—the same talented individual who gave us the Dreamcast conversion of DOOM 64. As you can see from the footage shared by The Sega Guru below, it’s already looking very promising indeed—and…