All Things Retro
“Not even our colleagues knew what we were doing”. It’s hard to believe it now, but back in the early ‘90s, Nintendo was not the dominant force on UK shores. That accolade went to Sega, whose 8-bit Master System and 16-bit Mega Drive were the driving force behind the console revolution in that region of…
Are you not entertained? While you could cite the amazing success of the arcade Donkey Kong or the pocket-sized phenomenon of the Game & Watch series as two points in time when it became evident that Nintendo was something special, the arrival of the Famicom in 1983 is perhaps a more pivotal moment in the…
Update: Launches 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, & PC. Update (Fri 15th Sep, 2023 14:45 GMT): The publisher City Connection has announced that Granzella’s reboot of Jaleco’s Formation Z will be arriving on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) in 2024. The news came ahead of this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2023…
“We thought this was going to go nuclear. And then it didn’t.”. When the developer Rocket Science Games released the adventure game Obsidian for Windows and Mac computers back in 1997, it needed a miracle. After years of disappointing games, such as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm, Wingnuts: Battle in the Sky, and Loadstar:…
Don’t get dizzy with excitement! Back in January, we reported on the computer scientist Dr. Tom Tilley and his bizarre contraption that transformed a deodorant ball, a football, some cardboard, and an optical mouse into a fun, new way to play Katamari Damacy. Well, now it appears he’s back at it again, this time turning…
From the developers behind ‘Moon’. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had a bunch of incredible announcements for retro gamers, but as is typical the Japanese broadcast hid some incredible announcements that we didn’t get to see outside of Japan. Case in point, the developer Onion Games — which is a company formed by individuals who worked on…
“Soon”. Emulation and preservation specialist Digital Eclipse has just teased a new project related to the classic RPG series Wizadry. Digital Eclipse has been working on making classic games available to a modern audience for years, with The Making of Karateka, the first interactive documentary in its ‘Gold Master Series’, being the most recent example….
“We at Silicon Knights were creating the VCR to play their movie”. Back in 2003, the sixth console generation was in full swing, Nintendo continued seeking mature titles for the GameCube, and Konami still seemed like a reasonable place to work. Canadian developer Silicon Knights had seen the release of their sanity-bending horror exclusive Eternal…
Will be playable at TGS 2023. If you’re a fan of Snow Bros., you must be on cloud nine at the moment, as not only was it revealed earlier this month that the second game in the series is getting a fresh remake from CRT Games, but now it has just been announced that Tatsujin…
Turning the page. Pen & Sword Books imprint White Owl is preparing to launch two new video game-themed books this month. The Dreamcast Encyclopedia is the fifth book from acclaimed journalist and Hookshot Media contributor Chris Scullion, who has previously penned similar tomes on the catalogues of the NES, SNES, Mega Drive and N64. Read…