Retro Gaming News
Zweihander? Indie developer Mad Rabbit Digital has released a demo for Metal Crisis, the new shmup we reported on back in September 2025. The playable preview of the frenetic-looking space shooter is available to download on Steam or directly from the SFGHQ forums. Metal Crisis is a 2D horizontal-and-vertical shmup “inspired by 3D space shooters…
BS Super Mario USA was originally broadcast in 1996. Here’s something exciting for Super Mario fans and lovers of obscure Japanese tech. A new MSU-1 fan project has just been released that adapts the four episodes of the Japan-exclusive Satellaview title BS Super Mario USA into a single ROM, with a freshly recorded English voiceover….
Lotta Bottle. Evercade’s upcoming Banjo-Kazooie Double-Pack cartridge not only contains both of Rare’s infamously meaty N64 platformers, but also a fistful of features cut or modified from the games’ original release. Spotted by Crazy Burger at the recent Evercade Nexus event, this includes a mode that never made it off the Banjo-Tooie cutting room floor….
Roguecraft DX for Windows Title The development of Roguecraft from Badger Punch Games and Thalamus Digital Publishing has been an interesting one. Starting off as a Commodore 64 game developed for a 4 KB coding competition, Rogue4k was expanded into Rogue64, a full-fledged Rogue clone. Shortly after, they developed a version for the Amiga 16-bit…
The History of Resident Evil Author: Tommy Keough Highlights Definitive Franchise Chronicle A complete, richly detailed exploration of the Resident Evil series, covering every mainline game, spin-off, remake, and key piece of lore from 1996 to the present day. Exclusive pictures, Includes a selection of high-quality screenshots, rare promotional images, and previously unseen photographs sourced…
“I’ve always written stories that I imagined I would have enjoyed at that age”. In the past, I’ve made no secret of my love for Fleetway Edition’s Sonic the Comic, the official Sonic comic that ran for nine years in the UK from 1993 to 2002. As you may already know, earlier this year, I…
Amico! Retroid Pocket Duo! Project Dream! Neo Geo AES+! 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 Amico! Retroid Pocket Duo! Project Dream! Neo Geo…
“He was more concerned with the end result than the journey”. Richard Garriott holds a unique place in the world of role-playing video games. Through his astoundingly influential Ultima series, he introduced countless people to gameplay that not only granted incredible player agency but also carried considerable moral weight in-game. It’s a shame, then, that…
Set 50 years before the events of the first “Lost Planet,” this game is definitely geared more towards fans of the series. At the same time, since it’s a prequel, it’s not a bad place to start for newcomers either. If you’ve played the series before, the gameplay is similar in the fact that you’ll…
Benimaru Itoh recently spoke to us about his memorable work on the ’90s Star Fox comic. Growing up in the UK, I don’t necessarily have the same fuzzy memories of Nintendo Power that a lot of my North American friends do, having grown up on our own official Nintendo magazines (which originated way back in…