Retro News

“The quality will be bad, but who cares, right?”. The recent release of an English translation patch for the Dreamcast title Segagaga was supposed to be a moment of celebration, but sadly, it turned into something of a flash point in the ongoing debate about AI use in the translation community. The team behind the…

“They loaned us a Dreamcast hardware development system”. Bleem! was a really unique product for its time, allowing users to run PlayStation games on non-PlayStation hardware. Originally created with Windows-based PCs in mind, Bleem! would later come to the Sega Dreamcast as Bleemcast – a move which Sega was covertly in favour of. Randy Linden,…

“My quote about Hit & Run would be, ‘Never say never.’”. Barely a week goes by without some new tweet or social media post coming across our radar, crying out for an official remake or remaster of The Simpsons: Hit & Run for modern platforms. When it comes to games released in the early to…

MegaDev 1.0 now available. While the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis homebrew scene is constantly flooded with new and unique games, as well as ports of existing titles, the Mega CD / Sega CD, by comparison, has traditionally been somewhat neglected, due to both the lack of available tools and the increased complexity of developing…

Babaliba wasn’t the only classic game to be converted over to the Atari ST, as I’ve recently been told that the 1993 DOS game called Train, which is also very similar to another classic game called SNAKE. Has been converted over to the Atari ST by Slovak programmer Baky, with music by scener Tao. To coincide with…

The GameCube is officially joining the “KallistiOS ecosystem”. The Sega Dreamcast homebrew community has been going from strength to strength in recent years, and it now looks like the Nintendo GameCube community could soon be joining it. That’s because the systems engineer and Dreamcast/GameCube enthusiast Eric Fradella has now successfully ported the Dreamcast homebrew software…

“The film was an absolute bomb”. Of all the attempts to bring video games to the silver screen, Andrzej Bartkowiak’s 2005 adaptation of DOOM wouldn’t be in my personal top ten of stinkers – not when the likes of Alone in the Dark, Monster Hunter, Double Dragon and House of the Dead exist. Now, don’t…

“Vicarious Visions saved Crash Bandicoot”. The multi-platform racing game Crash Nitro Kart could have been “the last of Crash”, according to Crash Bandicoot co-creator and character designer Charles Zembillas. Zembillas recently spoke to Time Extension for an interview about his career, during which he discussed his journey as an artist in the animation and video…

“I think it would have been a very cool game”. We were lucky enough to sit down with the legendary Bruce Nesmith recently, a video game industry veteran who has had roles at TSR and Bethesda and has titles such as Fallout 3, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on his glittering…