Retro Gaming News
Living in Hawaii was a blessing in many gaming ways – the Asian influence there provided Japanese bookstores with import game magazines and school friends who had software from Hong Kong and Japan. However, gaming retail in Hawaii was unlike the rest of the USA, as national big box stores such as Wal-Mart and Target…
“What could I have done to have actually gotten it?”. With PlayStation’s 30th anniversary celebrations in full swing, Sony has been encouraging fans to think back to their formative experiences with the iconic PS1 console, and, as you might expect, Tomb Raider has cropped up in that conversation. Lara Croft’s debut found most of its…
The demo was developed by ‘BasicProgrammer’ for the MSXturboR. Over the last couple of weeks, a Japanese developer and YouTuber going by the name BasicProgrammer (B.P.S) has been uploading some impressive videos of a new recreation of Sega’s After Burner they are making, running on an MSXturboR computer. After Burner, in case you’re unaware, was…
Slope’s Game Room delivers the goods. They might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming. Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for…
Lowe worked on Beneath a Steel Sky, Starglider, and ports of Street Fighter II. A bunch of development discs related to the work of the legendary video game musician Dave Lowe (otherwise known as Uncle Art) are currently being preserved online for the very first time. Lowe was a prolific video game composer and musician,…
“Oh my god, this is going to be f**king amazing”. Former Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Shawn Layden is better positioned than most to talk about the impact of the PlayStation brand – he began his career at Sony before the console even existed and would rise to the position of Chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios….
It will arrive on the Switch eShop & PS4 on December 5th. Hamster Corporation has announced it will be bringing yet another classic Konami arcade game to Nintendo Switch and PS4, as part of Arcade Archives. This time it’s the 1987 vehicular combat game City Bomber. This was a game that was originally built for…
“This is just a game that spoke to me”. Sony’s PlayStation turned 30 yesterday, and our friends over at Eurogamer marked the occasion by sitting down with former Sony Interactive Entertainment America President and CEO Shawn Layden, who was part of the company before the PS1 was even a glint in Ken Kutaragi’s eye. During…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Santa’s Journey creator Karl Dunkelman, who details the game and his hopes for it moving forward. Old School Gamer Magazine: For those that don’t know about the game, tell us about it! Karl Dunkelman: Santa’s Journey is the retro-inspired video game app where you get to be Santa himself…
Strictly speaking, It’s All In The Game doesn’t really end in 2006. All throughout, this documentary has contextualized the history of John Madden Football alongside the contemporary development and release of Madden NFL 25. That’s just where the retro part of the story ends, as the only “classic” Madden titles this episode discusses, if…