Retro Gaming News
“I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything”. Before iPhone and Android devices became the primary platforms for mobile gaming, there was already a healthy community of gamers in Japan experiencing the joy of playing video games on their phone, thanks to the emergence of Japanese feature phones. These proto-smartphones…
Over 4,000 votes entered. Japanese retro gaming ‘Mangaka’ (which means comic artist or cartoonist) KABU recently asked their followers to vote for the best Saturn games of all time, and, with more than 4,000 votes submitted, the results are now in (thanks @gosokkyu). What’s most surprising about the top ten is that, despite the console’s…
Capcom has yet to give a reason why they were removed. As recently highlighted by Wario64 on Twitter, Capcom’s Devil May Cry 4 and Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition have both been delisted from Steam. The news comes just days after another company 2K had to remove its cult-military shooter Spec-Ops: The Line from…
“The Quarry team was originally Until Dawn 2 working with Sony”. Last night’s State of Play saw Sony announce a newly rebuilt and enhanced port of Until Dawn for PS5 and PC, from the developer Ballistic Moon, again raising the question of why its original developer Supermassive Games has yet to make a sequel to…
“Psycho-thriller and Hunting RPG” now playable in English. Initially released in 1995 on the PC Engine CD, Linda³ (or Linda Cubed / Cube, if you prefer) has gone down as one of the most bizarre JRPGs ever made. Set on the planet of Neo Kenya, the “Psycho-thriller and Hunting RPG” (Alfa System’s words, not ours)…
Niftski just set a ‘glitchless’ world record of 5:02:685. Despite being one of the oldest entries in a series which has spawned countless sequels and spin-offs, the original Super Mario Bros. continues to make headlines all over the world thanks to the fact that it’s been the target of some seriously passionate speedrunning attempts. Speedrunner…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Wrestling Thunder City creator Rodolfo Carrasco Correa, who discusses the upcoming Game Boy Color wrestling RPG. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was this game born? Correa: It was during the times of the covid days. I had my first child and my wife and I could not do much in terms of…
1992’s great schism. Back in October 1992, a schism occurred that sent shockwaves through the British video gaming community – the multi-format console magazine Mean Machines split into two different publications, Nintendo Magazine System and Mean Machines Sega. We might sound like we’re making this a little more dramatic than it actually was, but this…
Duke Nukem is sadly missing in action though. The 1997 PC game Balls of Steel has been rereleased on Steam, courtesy of Atari and Big Boat Interactive. The game, which was originally developed by Wildfire Studios and published by Apogee Software (under its Pinball Wizard label), was previously available on the platform as part of…
ROM dumps, scans and much more besides. You’d be forgiven for not knowing anything about Sega AI Computer, a system released by the company in 1986. There’s very little information about the platform online, but that has just changed overnight thanks to the amazing efforts of Sega super fan Omar Cornut and his team of…