Retro Gaming News
“It had been completely wiped from my memory”. Yuzo Koshiro has composed music for the likes of Streets of Rage, ActRaiser, Castlevania and Etrian Odyssey during his glittering career, as well as numerous other games. In fact, he’s been so prolific during the past few decades that he’s actually forgotten about some of the games…
The publisher has posted a new blog post, paying tribute to influential British developer. Team17 has paid tribute to its late co-founder Martyn Brown in a recent blog post over on its website. Martyn Brown passed away last December, aged 58, prompting an immediate outpouring of tributes from those who had grown up playing and…
The footage was shown as part of the company’s weekly livestream. The Japanese video game company Hamster showed off something truly remarkable yesterday on its weekly livestream. While advertising its recent emulation-based reissue of Namco’s 1988 arcade game Märchen Maze for PS4 and Nintendo Switch, it published some incredible never-before-seen footage of an early prototype…
Update: Pre-orders open now. Edia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta has teased another new retro project, this time based on Wolf Team’s “Anett and Earnest” trilogy. This series includes the Genesis game El Viento (1991) and the Sega CD titles Earnest Evans (1991) and Anett Futatabi (1993). Read…
From Pixels to Planes: How Retro Gaming Set the Stage for Aviator’s Soaring Success Oh, the days of gaming in the past. Have you ever sat cross-legged on the ground with a controller in hand while attempting to complete an unbeatable Tetris or Super Mario Bros. level? The games were easy, addictive, and made to…
Contra meets Wild Guns in Neon Inferno, a pixel-perfect cyberpunk shooter turning up the heat on all platforms later this year. Philadelphia, PA – Feb. 07, 2025 – Grab your blasters and your favorite knives as Retroware and Zenovia Interactive join forces to publish Neon Inferno, coming to all platforms in Q3 2025. NYC 2055:…
Flash for cash. The Tokyo Xtreme Racer series is known by many alternative names, but the core concept is a simple one: instead of racing around a track in an effort to cross the finish line ahead of your opponents, you’re cruising around Tokyo’s Shuto Expressway challenging other racers in one-off duels, where the objective…
There exists in biological sciences a principle called “carcinization.” This concept expounds on the fact that evolution has a tendency to lead animal life to eventually take the form of a crab. This has happened, quite independently, roughly half a dozen times throughout the history of our planet. Nature loves crabs, it seems. For my…
Midnight Wanderers was originally included in the ‘Three Wonders’ arcade compilation. The developer of the Castlevania fangame Maria Renard’s Revenge, DomKid, has announced that they currently are working on an exciting port of Capcom’s Midnight Wanderers for the Neo Geo. Midnight Wanderers, in case you’ve never heard of it, was a run ‘n gun platformer…
Uses the Saturn’s XBAND modem. One of the key people behind the excellent Shining Force III translation project is currently in the process of hacking the game so it can be played online. Knight0fdragon is responsible for bringing the whole Shining Force III saga to English-speaking audiences, as, back in the day, only the first…