Retro Gaming News
I’m sure many of you especially Amiga owners, will remember the brilliant 1990 Adventure game ‘ The Secret of Monkey Island, by Lucasfilm Games. But did you know a developer by the name of Joachim Ljunggren in collaboration with Andreas Larsson is working on bringing this incredible game to the Commodore 64? Well, going by…
Release Date: 1978 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Sports Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2624 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Alan Miller This one-on-one basketball duel is a flawed but entertaining take on the sport. This is about as rudimentary of a basketball game as you can get while still being able to…
Advanced age. Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld is now 25 years old. The system launched in Japan on March 21st, 2001, alongside titles such as Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and Konami Krazy Racers. Read the full article on timeextension.com Advanced age. Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld is now 25 years old….
This popped into my head literally like a lightbulb turning on. I just figured it out. I was sitting there using ChatGPT, working through something… typed a prompt, got a response, tweaked it, tried again, refined it, pushed it a little further… …and it hit me. This is a text adventure. Not “kind of like…
For most of its life, Xbox was simple to comprehend. It was a console brand centered on a physical device, a controlled ecosystem, and a familiar promise to the player: buy the box, enter the platform, and stay inside the experience Microsoft designed for you. That model helped to define the modern console era, but…
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…
“Thousands of people can’t be wrong for wanting this”. Back when Capcom’s side-scrolling brawlers were all the rage, the Japanese veteran produced the sublime Aliens vs. Predator for its CP System II arcade board. Considered something of a genre classic, the game was sadly never ported to any home system, and, at the time of…
“Available for the first time in 37 years”. The dust has only just settled on the 2026 edition of the Game Developers Conference, but The Video Game History Foundation is giving us the chance to blissfully drift back in time to the third such instalment of the (Computer) Games Developer Conference, recorded on audio tape…
Homebrew developer Jenovi has two other 32X announcements, too. Homebrew developer Jenovi has been away from the scene for a while, but he’s back with a trio of 32X projects to look forward to. First up is an English translation of Koei’s Sangokushi IV, which was never released in the West. Read the full article…
Martyn Carroll steps into the role of Features Editor, replacing the late Nick Thorpe. Back when Retro Gamer magazine launched in 2004, its editor was Martyn Carroll – and he would keep that role until 2005, when publisher Live Publishing collapsed and the mag was relaunched by Imagine Publishing with Darran Jones at the helm….