Retro Gaming News
“Here are, arguably, the 15 (ish) best”. UK media outlet The Guardian has ranked the 15 best UK video game magazines of all time, and Future’s long-running EDGE has come out on top. Penned by acclaimed journalist and author Keith Stuart – who has actually written for several of the publications in the list –…
Coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. If you’re a fan of old-school beat ’em ups like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Alien vs. Predator, you’ll likely be just as excited as us to hear about Fallen City Brawl — a new hard-hitting beat ’em up that is…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Heritage Editorial VALARIE’S PICKS Valarie Spiegel Managing Director, Video Games ValarieS@HA.com Heritage Auctions 2801 W. Airport Freeway Dallas, Texas 75261 1-800-872-6467 Ext. 1994 1. Super Mario Bros. – VGA 90+ NM+/MT Unopened [Barcode, FF Logo, Later Production], Famicom Nintendo 1985 JPN My appreciation for the Famicom Super Mario…
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997. When Nintendo announced back in 2019 that it was releasing a pair of remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind — and better yet that they were being published internationally — it initially came…
The release will mark 10 years of the series. Update : Hamster has revealed that the next Namco game coming to Arcade Archives will be the vertical shoot-em-up F/A (otherwise known as Fighter & Attacker). The announcement was made during today’s livestream on Hamster’s YouTube channel (1:41:36), with the game being planned to start distribution…
Bubble Bobble is returning to the line-up, too. Numskull has announced that Taito’s Qix is joining its Quarter Arcades range this year. Originally released in 1981, Qix is one of the few Taito arcade games to be created in North America – it was developed by husband and wife team Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer. A…
“I took a vow that I would do this at some point in my life”. In our experience speaking with passionate game creators big and small, one thing is a constant: they’re more than happy to tell you all about where the idea of their game came from. This is also true of Billy Basso…
Including NES, SNES, GBA, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Switch. We’re huge fans of point-and-click adventure games here at Time Extension, with Lucasfilm Games’ Maniac Mansion ranking high on the list of our favourite games in the genre. So when we learned about Cronela’s Mansion — an upcoming adventure game inspired by the…
Sega, take note. It still bums us out that Sega released the Game Gear Micro and not a full-size replica of the original handheld packed with classic titles. While the Micro remains a cool little trinket, it wasn’t the ideal way to experience the system’s catalogue – and the fact that you had to buy…
“Jon made GEMS to enable musicians on Genesis, not just FM programmers”. We’ve got some sad news to report today – Jon Miller, who created the widely-used G.E.M.S. sound driver for the Genesis / Mega Drive, has passed away. Miller started his career at Sega back in 1991, working on the Mega Drive title Spider-Man…