Retro Gaming News
The game was originally released in arcades back in 1982. Konami’s maze-action game Tutankham is heading to Nintendo Switch & PS4 on May 9th as part of Arcade Archives (h/t: Famitsu!). The game, which sees players take on the role of an explorer navigating Tutankhamun’s tomb in search of treasures, was originally released in Japanese…
Update: Auction still has four days remaining. Update : The auction for a super-rare Super Famicom prototype is approaching the $2 million mark with four days remaining on the clock. At the time of writing, the auction has reached 300,000,000 yen (approx $1,932,000 / £1,548,000). The auction’s starting value was 5,000 yen ($32 / £27)….
“This is the most logically-complex mod ever built into CTR”. Crash Team Racing‘s 60 FPS widescreen mod is finally available to download, after 2 years of work and over 1000 hours of testing. The amazing news was broken just a few days ago via a 1 minute 30 trailer on the Crash Bandicoot preservationist/modder Darkaiser’s…
Arrives May 30th on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Developer Vidvad Games & publisher Flynn’s Arcade announced today that they will be bringing their arcade throwback Goliath Depot to the Nintendo Switch on May 30th. Goliath Depot is a 2D-style action platformer where players must travel across 4 worlds slamming doors, kicking enemies, and racking up…
Thanks to the DOOMSona PC Mod! One of the creative endeavours that never fails to bring a smile to our faces is the time-honoured tradition of people porting the classic 1993 first-person shooter Doom to every device under the sun. So when we saw (via gbatemp) that someone had managed to “port” the game to…
A new Commodore 64 homebrew has surfaced which may appeal to those of you who like a challenge, as D.Rejment has released the Commodore 64 game of ‘Hermanos’. A game in which the creator says you have to guide Hermanos through 20 levels and collect the gold scattered around each of the many levels found…
Marking 10 years of GENTLE LOVE’s Prescription for Sleep series. GENTLE LOVE’s Prescription for Sleep series – which kicked off in 2014 and includes albums based on Secret of Mana, Undertale and Celeste in its catalogue – is adding Yuzo Koshiro’s sumptuous soundtrack to ActRaiser this month. Prescription for Sleep: Heavenly Avatar is “a celebration…
It’s crazy to think that it’s been over a decade since Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Getting a ton of attention from new gamers since the Amazon Prime streaming show was released, all of a sudden a new generation wants to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas. In this exclusive Old School Gamer post,…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Brian Morris, who currently is displayed on card 4084, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. Coach Brian is Esports coach for Canute schools in Canute, Oklahoma. Brian has coached gamers who have won championships in Paladins, Madden Football, CS:GO, and WWE2K. Brian is also the founder and executive director of Oklahoma Scholastic…
We take a closer look at one of Nintendo’s biggest failures. The N64 Disk Drive is one of Nintendo’s most fascinating failures. Initially teased at the company’s Shoshinkai event in November 1995, the peripheral took advantage of proprietary 64MB magnetic disks to expand the console’s available storage with rewritable data as well as introducing other…