Retro Gaming News
The Unity 3D project offers an interesting take on the game that never was. As many Metroid fans will know, Nintendo’s popular sci-fi series about the arm-cannon touting bounty hunter Samus Aran famously skipped out on appearing on the N64 during the console’s run, despite being teased in magazines of the time like Next Generation….
‘Super Xevious’ will be released this week. Namco’s classic shoot ’em up Super Xevious will be heading to Nintendo Switch and PS4 this week, as part of Arcade Archives, it’s been announced. Released in 1984, Super Xevious was developed to be an expanded version of the 1982 vertical scroller Xevious and came about thanks to…
Go Go Gadget, multi-jump! Hudson Soft and AIM’s 1993 Inspector Gadget game for the SNES has just received a new ROM Hack, bringing with it a bunch of cool tweaks and quality-of-life improvements to the cartoon sidescroller. The original game, in case you’re unfamiliar, saw players take control of the cybernetically enhanced police detective, as…
“I submitted around 30 or 40 designs”. The iconic Sega rhythm game Samba De Amigo has a lot of memorable characters, from the star of the show, Amigo, to the supporting members of the game’s cast like the butterfly-wing-wearing dancer Linda, twin bears Bingo & Bongo, and the humanoid cat Rio. However, there was one…
“Satoru Iwata wrote in his card, ‘You know, Shigeru Miyamoto also likes Samba de Amigo’”. If you had to create a shortlist of the most colourful and creative Sega games, Samba de Amigo would no doubt rank toward the top. Arriving in arcades back in 1999 (and on the Sega Dreamcast one year later in…
Dizzy fans it’s time to really celebrate Dizzy in a really big way, as a very special Dizzy redux of ‘ Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ‘ on the ZX Spectrum, has only moments ago just appeared in our news feed. The original CKD was first released in 1992 on a multitude of systems in a completely…
Collection now limited to Grind Stormer and Slap Fight. Retro-Bit has confirmed that the upcoming Toaplan Shooters Collection Vol 2 will only contain two of the proposed three games due to “licensing constraints.” The postponed pack—which was previously advertised as containing Twin Cobra, Grind Stormer and Slap Fight—will now ship with just the latter two…
Originally released for PC-88 in 1986. Sein Soft’s 1986 sci-fi shooter Mirai has been announced as the next classic Japanese computer game coming to the Nintendo Switch, as part of D4 Enterprise’s ongoing EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. According to the company’s website, the PC-88 version of the game will arrive on the Nintendo eShop…
There’s also a new achievement-dedicated app called “Trophy Case” to track your success. Panic’s Playdate handheld finally has achievements, thanks to a new project created by various members of the portable console’s development community. Playdate Achievements hit 1.0 yesterday on its GitHub page, and is described as a new “open standard for achievements in Playdate…
New book coming in 2026. As one of cinema’s longest-running sci-fi horror franchises, the Alien series has spawned more than its fair share of video games—but the surprising thing is, unlike some other movie crossovers we could mention, the majority of them have been pretty decent. Starting in 1982 on the Atari VCS / 2600,…