Retro Gaming News
“The city holds many memories for me…”. While Revolution Software’s history stretches all the way back to the late 1980s, Broken Sword is arguably the company’s most famous and enduring property. Starring the investigative duo of George Stobbart and Nicole Collard, this beloved point-and-click franchise is ranked alongside the very best in the genre thanks…
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 was first released in 2001. Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 is getting a reissue next year, allowing video game fans to pick up a new printing of the influential book, featuring bonus interviews and a bunch of new contributors. While the market…
Saturn-exclusive content is missing. Konami recently released Suikoden I & II HD Remaster on modern formats, giving a pair of classic ’90s JRPGs the chance to win over an entirely new audience. The reaction has been positive, with our sister sites Push Square and Nintendo Life both awarding it 8/10. However, as noted by Sega…
“It’ll all play out in real time”. Paul W.S. Anderson is no stranger to adapting video games for the big screen, having already performed the trick with Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but he’s taking a new approach with his upcoming effort, a silver screen adaptation of Sega’s light gun shooter House of…
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MemCard Pro 2 can also connect to pads via USB. 8BitMods’ amazing MemCard Pro range is already an essential purchase for any self-respecting retro gamer, but the company has just added yet another reason to pick one up for your PS1. Thanks to the latest firmware update, both the MemCard Pro and MemCard Pro 2…
Shoot em ups have never gone out of fashion, there’s something to be said about blasting waves of enemies on screen, while collecting wicked power ups and listening to that thumping soundtrack. Thankfully one such team likes to keep the shoot em up goodness flowing, as thanks to a heads up in our Shoot Em…
“I wonder if they had already had some of the Cammy stuff recorded by someone else”. If you look up who voiced the Street Fighter II character Cammy in the 1996 arcade game X-Men vs. Street Fighter you’ll find a large number of websites claiming Susan Hart to be the voice of the character and…
Known in Japan as Wild Fang. Tecmo’s 1989 belt scroller Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang has come to MiSTer FPGA and Analogue Pocket, thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. “This belt-scrolling action game was created by the same team as Ninja Gaiden,” says the FPGA developer. “An interesting aspect of the game is that the protagonist fights…
Kickstarter launches later this month. We hate using lazy comparisons, but there’s no getting around the fact that the upcoming indie title Monsterpatch is basically what happens when you combine a farming sim with Pocket Monsters. Developed by Sean Young (not the one from Blade Runner and Dune, we assume), Monsterpatch is described as a…