Retro Gaming News
Buying a game on the day of release is fun, but it’s not always accessible or practical for all gamers. There are times when titles pass us by due to costs, age restrictions, or other obstacles. Then comes the opportunity to dive into the game at a later date, with all the best characters, features,…
Arrives December 12th. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes 2 will be released on the Nintendo Switch eShop later this week, on December 12th, courtesy of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. Much like previous releases in the series from the Japanese publisher (who is also responsible for Project EGG service for PC), the…
It’s an April Fools’ joke from 2000. It’s odd how some pieces of clearly false video game folklore end up becoming real the more time passes, while other, more outlandish events (like ET cartridges being buried in the desert) turn out to be true. Sadly, it seems this isn’t the case with an infamous PS1…
Not a brick at all, actually. The market for pocket-sized Game Boy-style emulation handhelds is pretty saturated right now, with devices like the Miyoo Mini Plus and Anbernic RG35XX already offering solid performance at a reasonable price. You wouldn’t think there was any room for other options, but the TrimUI Brick (which starts at $80)…
Bombs away! Evercade creator Blaze has revealed that the final Game of the Month for 2024 will be hiulit’s arcade-style action game Murtop. The game has already been available for a while now on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Itch.io where it is priced at less than $5. But if you have an Evercade device, you…
suppose one of the greater delights one can experience when one gets older is bringing joy to the younger members of the family, because it not only brings fun and laughter to the younger ones; it also brings a warmth that is unlike any other feeling known to man to the founder of the feast….
Coming to PS4 & Nintendo Switch as part of Arcade Archives. Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden spin-off Viper Phase 1 is set to release this week on the Nintendo Switch & PS4 on December 12th, as part of Arcade Archives (as spotted by Famitsu!). Originally released in 1995, Viper Phase 1 was built to take advantage of…
The Easter Egg can be found in the game’s industrial area. It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that a lot of video game artists in the ’80s and ’90s would frequently pull reference material from whatever films, TV, and comic books they were enjoying at the time. We’ve lost track, for instance, of…
The last news story from me today unless something major comes out, as looking through both the EAB forums and Facebook, we’ve found out that the Sega Mega Drive version of Last Battle: Legend of the Final Hero, is possibly coming to the Commodore Amiga as Fist of the North Star 2. As in the words…
The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough! A new unofficial version of Konami’s 1986 MSX platformer The Goonies has just been released by a group of developers called NOP, which impressively replaces the game’s original audio with music and sound effects taken from the film of the same name (h/t: MSX.org). According to the developers, the project…