All Things Retro
“We were a casualty of our own success”. We’d be willing to bet that if you quizzed any games developer, they’d admit that pushing a system to its absolute limit is one of the most satisfying parts of the job. Taking a piece of hardware and making it do things it really shouldn’t be capable…
The collection includes four classic Telenet Japan games. Update : As spotted by Gosokkyu, the Telenet Shooting Collection has finally been released on the Nintendo Switch eShop as of yesterday in both North America and Europe (September 21st). The collection is priced at $44.99 on the North American eShop and £37.79 on the UK store,…
The one-room demo was made for N64brew Summer Game Jam. Here at Time Extension, we’ve been following James Lambert’s work for a while now, paying particular attention to his outstanding Portal 64 demake. But recently, the programmer blew our minds once again by showing off another one of his other projects: a small game jam…
The Nintendo fan’s ultimate keyboard. 8BitDo is famous for its excellent controllers aimed at both retro and modern-day systems, but the company has taken something of a departure with its latest effort, the Retro Mechanical Keyboard. As you can probably see from the design, it takes inspiration from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the console that…
Currently being demoed at TGS 2023. Aya Neo‘s latest handheld gaming PC, the Aya Neo Slide, will be available to pre-order on IndieGoGo later today, it has been confirmed. Packing an AMD Ryzen 7840U chipset and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the Slide joins the likes of the Aya Neo Air 1S and Aya Neo Kun…
Shown off at TGS 2023. Japanese hardware firm Tassei Denki has been showing off some exciting retro-themed hardware at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, including what appears to be a Sega Saturn Mini that uses FPGA technology rather than traditional software-based emulation. The unit at the show – which is, of course, entirely unofficial and…
Arrives September 28th. During Hamster’s weekly livestream earlier today, the publisher announced that it will be bringing Namco’s side-scrolling action game Finest Hour to both the Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of its ongoing Arcade Archives series (thanks Famitsu!). The arcade title will be released digitally on September 28th and will (as far as…
Accounts have been silent in September. We take game preservation very seriously here at Time Extension, which is why we’ve always been massive fans of the amazing work being done by Sega Forever, the Japanese company’s official retro channel. The brand itself began life as a way of promoting the company’s emulated retro games on…
Cotton Fantasy 2 coming to console, PC, and arcade. Earlier today (September 21st), Success Corporation announced a new game in the long-running Cotton series tentatively called Cotton Fantasy 2 for console, PC, and arcade (thanks Gematsu!). The new shoot ’em up is a follow-up to Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams, which was originally released in…
Japanese exclusive gets fan-made translation patch. Japanese Sega Saturn exclusive Dungeon Master Nexus is now playable in English, thanks to the efforts of fans (thanks, @DRPGBook). The patch provides “a complete fan translation” for the 1998 title, which was developed by Software Heaven and published by Victor Interactive Software. Dungeon Master designer Doug Bell has…