Retro Gaming News
Though it likely it won’t happen for real unless you’re superhuman. The Mario speedrunner Kosmic has recently published a new video online in which he claims to have successfully found a way to beat the famous Donkey Kong “kill screen”. If you’ve happened to spend a lot of time in the past watching competitive players…
Old School Gamer chats with RailGods of Hysterra Troglobytes’ Art Director Lucian Iurino, who discusses the game’s development, inspiration and goals for the future. About RailGods of Hysterra: RailGods of Hysterra, a cooperative base-building survival action game set in a twisted Lovecraftian dreamscape from developer Troglobytes Games and publisher Digital Vortex Entertainment. Showcasing its titular celestial locomotive, the new trailer delves into…
MACROSS -Shooting Insight- is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS5 and PS4 on February 7 digitally Paris, France – 31st of January, 2025 – Red Art Games is announcing that the Western version of MACROSS -Shooting Insight- will now release on February 7, 2025 in North America and Europe on Nintendo Switch, PS5 and PS4 digitally. MACROSS…
“Keep calm when you’re happy, keep calm when you’re unhappy”. During the tenure of the late Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo went from being a playing card manufacturer to one of the most recognisable companies in the world—yet, despite this amazing evolution, Yamauchi ensured that his firm never allowed its newfound fame to change the way it…
From the developer of ‘Hypnagogia’. A promising new platformer has just been released for PC, which might be worth checking out if you consider yourself a fan of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball or GarageGames’ Marble Blast series. Bubble Dreams 3D is the work of the low-poly artist and indie developer sodaraptor — whose previous credits…
“In the beginning, it was everything-goes”. A sequel to Namco’s Soul Edge / Blade, 1998’s Soulcalibur has become one of the most famous 3D fighting games of all time and has spawned a series which continues to attract fans even today. Shmuplations has translated an interview with Koh Onda (character supervisor and writer) and Koji…
Could you imagine gaming without handhelds? While that section of the market is still dominated by Nintendo today, that hasn’t always been the case. Way before the Nintendo Game Boy, there was a market for one-off handheld games made by Coleco and even Nintendo’s Game and Watch series that mystified gamers and made them wonder…
The X68000 Z was a tribute to Sharp’s iconic Japanese home computer. ZUIKI, the company behind the X68000 Z, has recently established a new Twitter/X account for the retro machine and has begun teasing a mysterious new model. In case you’re unfamiliar, the X68000 Z was first unveiled back in October 2022 and was designed…
The game was released back in 2005 for select Vodafone phones. The video game preservationist RockmanCosmo revealed earlier this week that a rare trial version of the mobile port of House of the Dead has just been preserved by a member of the feature phone community online. House of the Dead mobile was originally released…
Prototype dates from a month before the final release. Video games go through a wide range of iterations prior to release, and Sega’s Crazy Taxi is no exception. Pre-release prototypes exist which show how its development progressed before it was released on Dreamcast. The website Sega Dreamcast Info has posted information about a version from…