Retro Gaming News
“Dust off your controllers”. We have some potentially exciting news for those who love checking out the latest homebrew releases for the NES and SNES. The retro publisher Mega Cat Studios has revealed it is kicking off the New Year by releasing three “new” retro experiences for classic Nintendo machines, which are set to be…
The second part of the Rune Worth trilogy is available on Switch today. Despite running into a few issues of its own making last year, the Japanese company D4 Enterprise is seeking to continue its run of reissuing old games for classic Japanese computers on the Nintendo Switch in 2026. Over on its website, it…
“I hate when people get tricked into doing stupid stuff like this”. Video games, like any physical item, can become very valuable on the secondary market. Many retro games are now worth thousands of dollars, and this increased value predictably leads people to treasure and hoard them in the same way comic book collectors do…
If you ask a gamer to name some popular shooter titles, they will tell you games like Call of Duty, Doom, Halo, Grand Theft Auto and Goldeneye. Before all of these hit the shelves, Nintendo had a vision of providing a shooter game with the new Nintendo Entertainment System launch in 1985. One of the…
CD or CD? That is the question. I’ve been a fan of Krikzz’s EverDrive line of flash carts since they hit the market over 15 years ago, and have owned multiple examples across the Game Boy, GBA, SNES and Mega Drive. One system I’ve never seen fit to ‘EverDrive-up’ is the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16,…
New year, new you! 2025 has come and gone, and we’re now already several days into a brand-new year: 2026. So, with that, it’s the perfect time for people to take stock and think about the year ahead and what they want to change. But rather than your typical New Year’s resolutions of drinking less,…
When the Nintendo Switch was released in early 2017, it was billed as a console that would appeal to both casual and hardcore gamers. And while that’s certainly true, there’s no denying that the Switch has also been a haven for fans of classic gaming. From classic racing games suited for fans of Formula 1,…
DIP switches, AES mode and more. The Evercade family of systems has received its first firmware update of 2026, with the Neo Geo and Atari 2600 collections benefiting from a host of new features. First up are Neo Geo DIP switch settings, which allow players to change options such as time limit, lives, difficulty level,…
“Build bonkers beings!”. It’s been a while since we last covered the Playdate, Panic’s crank-operated handheld that has empowered a new generation of creators to make adorable retro-style games for a dedicated community. But that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped taking an interest in the tiny yellow machine. We’re always on the lookout for fun,…
Have you got ‘Touchdown Fever’? Following the one-two punch of Space Invaders and Space Invaders Part II over the Christmas period, Hamster has announced that the next arcade title it will bring to modern consoles will be SNK’s 1987 sports game, Touchdown Fever. It will be released across Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X|S on…