Retro Gaming News
A legend years in the making. Popular games always attract speedrun attempts, and the Zelda series is obviously no exception. 2003’s Zelda: Wind Waker has been subject to speed run attempts for years, but an interesting schism in the community occurred when Nintendo released the HD version for the Wii U in 2023. Read the…
“Ultra-fast charging for 7 devices at once”. Accessory maker Genki recently launched the Save Point, a modern-day take on the memory card which allows you to add oodles of storage to your Steam Deck, smartphone or computer. The company clearly isn’t content to take its foot off the gas, however, as it has just launched…
In the classic situation comedy Gilligan’s Island, which deals with seven colorful castaways stranded on an island, there are two versions of the theme song. In the first version, five of the castaways are named, while two of them are filed away under the phrase “and the rest”. The actors playing The Professor and…
The ModRetro Chromatic, a new handheld device that plays all of the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, will be hiding underneath many a Christmas tree this December, just like the original did back in 1989 with the OG version from Nintendo. While this version is closer to an update of the 1998…
Update: “SO MUCH NEW S**T TO TALK ABOUT”. Update #2 : Jnmartin84’s Dreamcast port of Doom 64 continues to push the hardware in new and unexpected ways, with the latest version offering dynamic lighting and bump mapping. “Jnmartin and his Doom 64 port literally just made Sega Dreamcast history today, with an N64 port of…
“I’m sure the long development period of two years put a lot of stress on my heart”. Recently, we at Time Extension had the opportunity to interview the Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3) composer Hiroki Kikuta, talking about his early influences, his work on the legendary RPGs, and his approach…
Update: Now has an XP system, too! Sega Genesis / Mega Drive platformer Kid Chameleon is getting new features thanks to the efforts of prolific patcher BillyTimeGames. The modder – who has patched titles like Ghostbusters and Jewel Master in the past – has introduced the ability to purchase helments when loading a game using…
Zainsoft’s Dios was one of two games released for the PC-8801MC CD-ROM drive. A long-lost PC-88 game has recently been rediscovered and preserved online, as revealed in a recent video by the YouTube channel Basement Brothers. Zainsoft’s Dios is a sidescrolling action platformer that was originally released across several Japanese computers in 1989 on floppy…
“He’s nipped behind there to have a fag and he knows that you can’t see him”. Peter Molyneux is one of the world’s most famous game designers and has had a hand in influential titles such as Populous, Magic Carpet, Black & White and Fable. He’s also famous for allowing his imagination to sometimes run…
A technical showcase with informed design sensibilities. Regular readers will know we covered Changeable Guardian Estique last year and in May, and we were very excited for its release. We’ve actually had a review ROM since September, but we wanted to play an additional 19 games alongside – on real hardware – to fully appreciate…