Retro Gaming News
We go hands-on with the Famicom edition. Cat Hui Trading’s Changeable Guardian Estique has turned out to be one of the more welcome surprises of 2024. A new shmup from developers responsible for titles such as Wonder Boy, Aleste, Spriggan Mark 2, and Golvellius, it pushes the NES / Famicom hardware to its absolute limit…
Along with a bunch of physical goodies. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe has today announced that it is releasing physical editions of Assault Suit Valken Declassified on Nintendo Switch. The game – originally released as Cybernator in the West – will be published in March 2025 and comes in two versions. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
“Trevor would be proud”. Netflix has released an official trailer for Castlevania Nocturne Season 2, which it has revealed will be launching early next year on January 15th on the streaming platform. The new trailer is roughly two minutes long and shows the vampire hunter Richter Belmont and the rest of his party recovering from…
Going down? Numskull’s popular Quarter Arcades range is a great way to reconnect with your coin-op past and add a splash of colour to any gaming setup, and while it has big-hitters such as Space Invaders and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this series of 1/4 scale cabinets also has some deeper cuts into gaming history….
Buying a game on the day of release is fun, but it’s not always accessible or practical for all gamers. There are times when titles pass us by due to costs, age restrictions, or other obstacles. Then comes the opportunity to dive into the game at a later date, with all the best characters, features,…
Arrives December 12th. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes 2 will be released on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this week, on December 12th, courtesy of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. Much like previous releases in the series from the Japanese publisher (who is also responsible for Project EGG service for PC), the…
It’s an April Fools’ joke from 2000. It’s odd how some pieces of clearly false video game folklore end up becoming real the more time passes, while other, more outlandish events (like ET cartridges being buried in the desert) turn out to be true. Sadly, it seems this isn’t the case with an infamous PS1…
Not a brick at all, actually. The market for pocket-sized Game Boy-style emulation handhelds is pretty saturated right now, with devices like the Miyoo Mini Plus and Anbernic RG35XX already offering solid performance at a reasonable price. You wouldn’t think there was any room for other options, but the TrimUI Brick (which starts at $80)…
Bombs away! Evercade creator Blaze has revealed that the final Game of the Month for 2024 will be hiulit’s arcade-style action game Murtop. The game has already been available for a while now on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Itch.io where it is priced at less than $5. But if you have an Evercade device, you…
suppose one of the greater delights one can experience when one gets older is bringing joy to the younger members of the family, because it not only brings fun and laughter to the younger ones; it also brings a warmth that is unlike any other feeling known to man to the founder of the feast….