Retro Gaming News
Hidden no longer. The classic ’90s Star Wars title Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire is coming to PS5 / PS4 as part of the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog (thanks, Gematsu). A sequel to the FMV-based rail shooter Rebel Assault, The Hidden Empire arrived on PC CD-ROM in 1995, and was ported to the PS1…
The SNES game only allowed up to 2 players in the final version. A previously undiscovered prototype of the Super Nintendo game Megaman Soccer has recently been published online on The Cutting Room Floor, revealing a few new insights into the development of the project (as spotted by the Mega Man news site Rockman Corner!)….
Sucks to be you. We’ve been waiting a long time for an all-new Castlevania outing, but in the meantime, it would seem that we’ll have to make do with collaboration titles, like Dead Cells‘ recent Return to Castlevania and the just-announced crossover with Stunlock Studios’ vampire survival action RPG, V Rising. Dubbed “Legacy of Castlevania”,…
Beige is beautiful. After a flood of big-name micro-consoles that includes the NES, SNES, Mega Drive, PC Engine and Amiga, we now have what must rank as the deepest cut so far: the Atari 400 Mini. Based on Atari’s range of 8-bit home computers, which first hit the market in 1979, this latest collaboration between…
I’ve done arcade write-ups of dozens and dozens of locations over the years, but none as far away as this one. My wife and her good friend, Jaime – one of the first visitors to the actual Knapp Arcade :), are on a tour of Europe. They stopped in the Budapest Pinball Museum aka Flippermúzeum…
The mode was one of the most challenging in-game rewards to unlock. Considering Star Fox 64 came out back in 1997, you’d think that its potential to surprise would become somewhat diminished over the years. Nevertheless, recently on Twitter, we stumbled across an interesting post from a game developer called Benjigamedev, talking about a hidden…
“This is the event where Hollywood meets the Computer Age”. While it’s tempting to think of eSports as a fairly modern creation, there were actually competitions as early as the 1970s and 80s that sought to combine the popularity of video games with the thrill of a live tournament. Some of you, for instance, may…
NES-ception. Modder James Channel is back, fresh from creating the Nintendo PlayStation a short time ago. This time around, his focus was a little more streamlined; he wanted to make a NES cartridge that was also a NES console. Confused? You will be. The modder mused that some modern-day NES clones are almost as small…
From the team of Icon64 & Psytronik Software. The retro publisher Psytronik Software and developer Icon64 have partnered up to release two brilliant new retro games for your Commodore 64. Good Kniight and Harharagon are both available to pre-order now as a physical tape (£8.99), a dual cartridge (£39.99), or a dual USB tape (£34.99),…
Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol. 4 coming soon. BitWave Games, the company behind the excellent Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection series, has confirmed that the fourth entry is on its way. Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol. 4 will include Truxton II (1992), Grind Stormer (1993), Twin Hawk (1989), and Dogyuun…