Retro News

The ‘Middo’ is a new ship “overtaken and fused with the Bydo”. Irem’s R-Type never graced the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, and was instead exclusive to the PC Engine, SNES, Master System and Game Boy back in the day. This egregious oversight is being fixed by TheRoboZ (Andrea Baldiraghi), who has been hard at…

The RetroN GX launches this May. Back in 2022, Hyperkin officially revealed its PC Engine / TG-16 clone, the RetroN GX. Like the company’s other consoles, it uses software emulation to replicate the performance of NEC and Hudson’s iconic 8-bit system. Back in 2022, it was reported that the console wouldn’t be seen until 2023…

Benefits Out Youth, an LGBTQ+ youth centre. As we’ve noted before on this site, print media is having a moment right now—however, we’re not talking about magazines on the newsstands here, but fan-made publications created by enthusiasts. If you’re a fan of grassroots media, then you might want to take a look at the second…

An unfinished build has been published online. An unfinished build of the Sonic fangame Sonic & The Moon Facility has been released online, letting players experience a mostly playable version of the cancelled project. If you cast your mind back to August 2023, you may remember hearing about the promising upcoming Sonic fangame, when it…

While RetroSouls has released many games such as GLUF, Old Tower and Alter Ego, one of the more unique games they released, was a game called Ringo. What made this game unique was the fact that it was one of the first games to use their new ‘experimental graphics mode’. While I’m unsure about the…

“An incredible find”. Seven brand-new Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets have been discovered in a warehouse 30 years after the game launched. As highlighted by Gabe Fowlkes, the find was announced on Facebook, with the “completely NOS Sega Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets” being described as “completely untouched, still boxed, monitors never powered on.” Read the full…

Time flies when you’re piloting massive robots. Square’s Front Mission series is now 30 years old—it made its debut in Japan on February 24th, 1995. The first game was released exclusively on the Super Famicom in Japan, and was created by Toshiro Tsuchida. Read the full article on timeextension.com Time flies when you’re piloting massive…

“Ray and I would have probably launched a bid to try and take over EA from the inside”. BioWare’s co-founder Greg Zeschuk recently made an appearance on Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console and, in the process, revealed why he left the company and his wild dream of launching a bid to take over EA…

“Because of this work, he was delayed in going to the hospital”. Astro Boy: Omega Factor is one of the highlights of the GBA catalogue and arguably shows Sega’s Hitmaker studio (which collaborated with Treasure on the game) at its finest. However, working on the game came at a considerable cost for artist and designer…

ChapuTranslations has released its patch of the top-down action RPG. A new fan patch was published earlier this month for the Japanese-exclusive title Prisoner, giving players an exciting opportunity to play the action-adventure RPG in English for the very first time. Released in 1999, Prisoner is one of only a small handful of titles that…