Retro Gaming News
And it’s now playable! The Konix Multisystem is one of the most famous unreleased gaming platforms of all time. First shown off in 1989, it was created by a team of former Sinclair Research staffers, it boasted a moving chair accessory and light gun—but the project collapsed when Konix went under in 1990. However, the…
The Light Gun, or something else? Polymega System Software Update 1.1.34 is now live, and while it doesn’t do much on the surface, one aspect of the change log could prove to be interesting in the long run. According to the official Polymega site, this update adds support for “future Polymega hardware.” This could refer…
Heads up ‘ H.E.R.O’ gamers! As Liqmatrix recently informed us, that ‘H.E.R.O, which is a game that was released for the Atari 800/2600, ColecoVision, C64, C128, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, has been remade for PC, and available to download through itch io by Langford Productions . A classic game which puts you in control of Roderrick…
Includes “400 original sketches, illustrations, 3D renders, and more”. A bunch of Shenmue development materials have just been archived online, thanks to the Shenmue-dedicated website Shenmue Dojo. This includes “over 400 original sketches, illustrations, 3D renders & more” from the early development of the game, including the period in which Yu Suzuki’s team at Sega…
“It’s not as good”. Henk Rogers and Nintendo have a long history. After cooking up the influential Black Onyx, Rogers worked with Nintendo to release titles on the Famicom in the ’80s before helping to secure the home console rights to Tetris, a puzzler which helped turn the Game Boy into a multi-million-selling success. Rogers…
Get your guesses in now! The French developer/publisher Broke Studio has teased on social media that it will soon be reissuing three Jaleco games for NES and Game Boy, in collaboration with Omake Games and City Connection. According to the post on Twitter/X, the three games will be titles never before released in the West…
There are several game genres that are mostly exclusive to arcades, and of them, the light-gun shooter is one of the most entertaining. While the experience has been transferred to home consoles multiple times in the past, there’s nothing quite like standing in front of a cabinet with a gun controller in your hand, blasting…
PSRetroX is a new tool that is currently in development. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing your favourite PS2 games natively on PC (complete with quality-of-life improvements), then we have some promising news to share. A brand new project is currently in its early stages over on GitHub, which aims to make the process of…
“Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work”. While Tetris is clearly a work of genius and would have been commercially successful no matter what systems it released on, few would have the courage to argue that, without Nintendo’s seminal Game Boy version, the puzzler’s fame would be quite as far-reaching…
“The music itself was a message”. The Streets of Rage series is famous for its incredible music, which was supplied by Yuzo Koshiro on the 1991 original and Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima on the second and third Mega Drive / Genesis games (both would also contribute to Streets of Rage 4‘s music, alongside Olivier Deriviere…