Retro Gaming News
“Toby Gard really didn’t want to alter Lara”. It’s not unusual for video games to be altered to appeal to audiences in other territories – look at how Kirby’s expression was tweaked for some of his North American adventures, for example. The process can work in the opposite direction, too – for example, the PS1/Saturn…
“I deliberately did a bad job because I didn’t want to be on a video game”. One of the biggest names in the ‘Big Beat’ revolution that swept global music charts in the late ’90s and early 2000s, Fatboy Slim – also known as Norman Cook – has recently sat down for a chat with…
It’s been claimed in the past that ‘Tetris Attack’ almost became a Killer Instinct title. Back in the ’90s, it wasn’t uncommon for Japanese video games to be released overseas, sporting an entirely different title and brand-new graphics, in an attempt to make them more appealing to Western audiences, for better or worse. One interesting…
“Team spirit” takes on a whole new meaning. GTA: San Andreas‘ Hot Coffee controversy might seem like a storm in a teacup today, but back in the mid-2000s, its discovery caused shockwaves in the games industry. The game was retrospectively given an “Adults Only” rating, was banned outright in Australia and earned Rockstar and Take-Two…
Throughout the history of 8- and 16-bit consoles, one of the most elusive achievements was to release a home port of a popular arcade game that did the original justice. Due to obstacles such as hardware requirements, licensing issues, and executive interference, producing an arcade port that wasn’t immediately panned by the gaming press was…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Dan Yamnitz who currently is displayed on card number 3319, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Dan is a multi-world record holder on the arcade version of Pole Position II. He holds the record on all four tracks of the game. When he is not playing arcade machines, he is…
News, features and talking points from the retro gaming world. Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com News, features and talking points from the…
Something slightly different for todays retro heads up, as if you are a huge fan of Dungeon Crawlers, especially games such as Eye of the Beholder or Lands of Lore. Then you may be interested to know that Captain DarkN3m0 is still working on a new Dungeon Crawler for the Amiga called ‘The Cthulhu Project’;…
Do you have any suggestions for future challenges we should complete? You may have noticed that we recently launched a new, soon-to-be regular feature on the site, Retro Recap, designed to gather up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one convenient place. Well, it isn’t alone, as…
“We all thought we were going to make a billion dollars making a Beatles game”. When Harmonix, MTV Games, and Electronic Arts released The Beatles: Rock Band, it was described as “nothing less than a cultural watershed“. After decades of unlicensed and unofficial games, the most famous band in the world was finally getting its…