Retro Gaming News
“We had to take immediate action”. One of the internet’s largest catalogues of video game hardware has been forced into read-only mode thanks to hackers. Established in 2018, Consolevariations.com aims to be the “ultimate console database” and lists over 12,000 variants and more than 100,000 photos, many of which are uploaded by the community. Read…
“For the first time on AES”. Yesterday, we were given the very welcome news that Plaion and SNK are teaming up to create the Neo Geo+ AES, a modern-day recreation of the iconic super-console that everybody wanted but nobody could afford back in 1990. As part of this release, Plaion is reissuing 10 classic Neo…
The three games were announced during a G-Mode Archives 6th-anniversary stream. In a G-Mode Archives 6th-anniversary stream that went live earlier today, G-Mode, the company known for its revivals of classic Japanese mobile games, revealed three new titles for Nintendo Switch (in Japan) & PC (via Steam). This includes a reissue of the 2006 Atlus-developed…
“Powered by newly manufactured chips based on the originals”. Well, it turns out the rumours of Plaion Replai creating a new Neo Geo system were bang on the money, as the company has just announced the Neo Geo+ Advanced Entertainment System / AES. Launching on 12th November 2026, the Neo Geo+ AES (£179.99 / €199.99…
“It was a nightmare”. It’s fair to say that Capcom’s Final Fight Revenge isn’t the franchise’s finest hour. Developed for Sega’s Titan arcade board and Saturn home console at the tail-end of the 1990s, it was created not in Japan but in the US by Capcom Digital Studios, an outfit that would later work on…
I had a feeling it wouldn’t be too long for another JOTD announcement, and thus here we are with a new Arcade to Amiga port that’s been released called ‘Mappy’. A side-scrolling platformer that was developed by Namco for the Japanese market in March 1983, and published in North America by Bally Midway in April…
Every ’90s kids dream. If you were a Pokémon-obsessed kid in the ’90s, there’s a good possibility that one of your biggest dreams growing up was to have your very own working Pokédex. Despite being a work of fiction, the device always looked so cool whenever it appeared in the anime, essentially acting as a…
“I tried to produce a high quality faithful translation”. Technosoft is famous for the Thunder Force series and titles like Hyper Duel and Herzog Zwei, but the company also dabbled in other genres – and its 1995 PS1 and Saturn pinball title, Kyuutenkai, is something of a hidden gem in its library. Also known as…
New large-scale mod announced, to give the classic game a “next-gen” face-lift. Following the disappointing cancellation of Ubisoft’s remake of Prince Of Persia earlier this year, fans of the series have announced their own project, aimed at giving the platformer, originally released for PC, Xbox, PS2, and GameCube, a modern-day facelift (h/t: GamesRadar!). Prince of…
When I think back to my original Nintendo Game Boy, I don’t just remember a piece of gaming hardware. I remember a specific time in my life, a season, a university campus, and a particular version of myself. The Machine I was at the University of Arizona in the fall of 1989 (Go Wildcats!),…