Retro Gaming News
Ants in your pants? Sandy White’s Ant Attack was a groundbreaking release back in 1983. Isometric games had already been seen in arcades, but to experience such a title on the humble ZX Spectrum – and one which gave the player the freedom of four-way movement – was revolutionary. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
A beta of the port was showcased by the Star Fox speedrunner Rakanai. A native port of the Nintendo 64 game Star Fox 64 is currently in development for the PC (as spotted by PC Gamer). The news was revealed over the weekend on the Harbour Masters 64 Discord — an online community of developers…
Homebrew modder Frogbull does it again. The talented modder who gave Saturn Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII and Crash Bandicoot has pulled off the same trick with Shenmue to celebrate 30 years of Saturn. Frogbull has put together a facsimile of the Dreamcast classic on Sega’s 32-bit console, which is impressive in itself –…
Spider-Man is a vertical scrolling action game programmed by Laura Nikolich for the Atari 2600, and released in 1982 by Parker Brothers. It was both the first video game to feature Spider-Man and the first Marvel Comics based video game. Norman Osborn has been removed of the Goblin formula and incarcerated by Spider-Man. He manages…
Spring Break, 1992. It started the moment the final bell rang, signaling the start of a glorious week free from high school… A week I had carefully planned. But it wasn’t the beach that called to me; it was something else entirely: a rented Super Nintendo from Blockbuster Video, accompanied by four games that would…
Limited Run and GameStop are powering up! Retro releases from LRG are coming to GameStop stores this holiday season! Sixteen classic Limited Run games for NES, SNES, and Game Boy are back at GameStop! Apex, North Carolina—November 22nd, 2024—GameStop and Limited Run Games today announced a partnership that will see Limited Run retro titles sold…
In a recent press release, Stern Pinball confirmed that it is now selling accessories for its new Metallica Remastered table. The five items now available for sale on Stern’s website here include an “…And Justice For All” Metallica Topper, an Illuminated Metallica Logo Shooter Knob, Metallica Sword Side Armor, a Cabinet Expression Lighting System,…
Kidname: Iceboy is available now on itch.io for free. When people tend to discuss the most difficult Sierra adventure games, there is one name that usually comes up more than any other: Codename: Iceman. Released for DOS, Atari ST, and Amiga, the Sierra point-and-click adventure was designed by Jim Walls — a former police officer…
“One of the wildest things I’ve ever, EVER seen in all my years of romhacking”. The Dreamcast may have been Sega’s final stab in the world of gaming hardware, but the company really threw everything at making the console a success – including features like online connectivity, memory cards you could play games on and…
“He loved what he did and was brilliant at it”. If you owned a C64 back in the day, then you might be familiar with Summer Camp (1990) and Winter Camp (1992), two titles published by Thalamus and coded by the late John D. Ferrari. Ferrari was already something of a legend in C64 circles…