Retro Gaming News
Today, video game music is the stuff of orchestras. You can easily find your favorite songs played by serious professionals on YouTube. While there are many arguments for Final Fantasy VI’s importance in the annals of gaming history, Sebastian Deken makes a fairly credible argument for music being the game’s single greatest legacy. Final…
‘Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict’ was in development at Enigma Variations. Games That Weren’t’s founder Frank Gasking revealed earlier today that he has managed to preserve another lost Enigma Variations game, following the discovery of unreleased NES versions of Sensible Soccer and Populous. This time it’s the turn of the 1993 side-scrolling mech beat…
The “Will It Run Edition” is limited to 666 copies. Limited Run Games has announced that it will soon be releasing various physical editions of Bethesda, Nightdive, and Id Software’s Doom + Doom II collection, for collectors to get their hands on. This includes standalone versions of the game (priced at $29.99) for Xbox, Nintendo…
CAVE legend Junya Inoue worked on the game. Today, the name CAVE is synonymous with amazing arcade shooters, but the company can trace its lineage back through time to other companies, with Toaplan being perhaps the most notable. When Toaplan declared bankruptcy in 1994, its staff splintered off to establish their own studios, one of…
A.I was founded in 1990. The Japanese developer behind Nintendo-based entries in Banpresto’s Super Robot Taisen / Wars series has declared bankruptcy almost 35 years after it started (thanks, Anime News Network). A.I Co., Ltd. (pronounced in Japanese as “Ei-Ai”) was established in July 1990 in Machida, Tokyo and is responsible for developing titles such…
Od’s Tower is being built as “a love-letter” to the freeware game Tower of the Sorcerer. A promising new indie game is currently in development for the PC that pays tribute to Tower of the Sorcerer (or Magic Tower as it is known in Japan) — an influential piece of freeware for the NEC PC-98…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Stern Pinball’s Silverball: While Chicago might have the bean….we have the ball. Stern Pinball Cup: Compete against players worldwide in an exciting series of week-long pinball races. It’s not about…
“The last remaining *official* way to play SOR1 online with a friend”. Nintendo recently updated the Mega Drive / Genesis portion of its Nintendo Switch Online offering, bringing three new games: Streets of Rage, Super Thunder Blade, and ESWAT: City Under Siege. As spotted by Gaming Hell on BlueSky, the addition of Streets of Rage…
Get ready for some ’90s humour. Ever since GungHo announced that it was remastering Game Arts’ classic Lunar JRPGs for modern systems, one of the burning questions was whether the updated titles would use Working Designs’ original Western localisations, which accompanied the games when they were initially launched back in the ’90s and early 2000s….
Questions it seems the studio doesn’t want to answer, for now. In a recent interview with VGC, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick revealed more about why the company’s Goldeneye 007 pitch wasn’t picked up, but his answers have only seemed to have raised more questions in the game’s community. Speaking to VGC’s Andy Robinson about its…