Retro Gaming News
Co-creator Takaya Imamura pays tribute. The original F-Zero is special for a whole host of reasons, but one of the most unique things about its Japanese release is that it bucked a trend by including cover artwork created not in Japan but in North America. Valiant Comics, founded in 1989 by former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief…
CD/DVD drive, x4 USB-A ports and a 2280 m.2 SSD bay. Taki Udon’s FPGA PS1—codenamed SSone—continues to attract a fair amount of attention, and the designer has just revealed one of the most important aspects of the upcoming machine: its dock. The system uses a MiSTer FPGA setup at its core, allowing users to play…
What first stands out about Inspector Waffles: Early Days is just how cute the idea is. Inspector Waffles is a PC detective game from 2021. While Inspector Waffles also has a retro visual design, it’s more akin to early flash games on the PC in the early aughts. I imagine that Inspector Waffles does…
Darkstalkers (USA) is also coming to Blu-ray. Discotek Media has announced that it will be bringing out a new Blu-ray of the critically panned Street Fighter: The Animated Series. Originally airing between 1995 to 1997 on the USA Network, Street Fighter The Animated Series was a collaboration between USA Studios, Capcom, Graz Entertainment (season one),…
“This totally sucks”. A Japanese arcade which was home to a wide selection of classic games has been consumed by fire, we’re sad to report. The conflagration at Osaka’s Retro Game Arcade Zarigani was reported by Colin Williamson on social media. Read the full article on timeextension.com “This totally sucks”. A Japanese arcade which was…
Rage Relay now playable in the 1992 original. It’s easy to forget how amazing Sega’s 3D Classics series was on 3DS. Not only did it give us amazing ports of some legendary arcade and home console releases, it added special features which made them even more unique—and Streets of Rage 2 was no exception. The…
“We hold our voice actresses and actors with high regard”. The developers behind Dino Crisis “spiritual successor” Code Violet have said the game won’t be coming to PC because they’re fearful it would be subject to pornographic mods (thanks, VGC). Speaking in a statement on social media, developer TeamKill Media addressed calls for a PC…
“A New Beginning”. A new trailer has just been released for Kingdom Hearts – Re:Fined — an ambitious mod that is currently in development for the PC version of the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix that aims to improve all of the games included in the Square Enix collection with bug fixes and new…
Uchida also created Altered Beast and Alien Storm. When you talk about famously loyal and long-serving Japanese game developers, names like Shigeru Miyamoto and Yu Suzuki inevitably spring up. Miyamoto, as we all know, joined Nintendo in the late ’70s and has created some of the most famous video games of all time, while Suzuki…
The developer is now ready to start implementing gameplay. Update : Earlier this month, the developer of Ultima VII: Revisited Anthony Salter provided an update on his in-development fan project in the form of a new YouTube video (thanks RetroShell for the spot!). In the video, Salter stated that the project had now reached 0.1.0…