Retro Gaming News
Available in the EU via the AltStore PAL marketplace. We have some more good news to share on the iPhone app store emulation front. The free game emulator Delta has just arrived on the App Store in many countries, bringing NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Game Boy…
Same estate sale that gave us the $90,000 Castlevania. Not so long ago, headlines were made by the fact that a copy of Castlevania on the NES sold for a staggering $90,100 on eBay, setting a record on the popular auction site. At the time, it was reported that the person selling the game –…
“Turn your worthless brick into your precious handheld device”. The Sony PlayStation Portable was a fantastic handheld during its active lifespan, but it’s arguably an even more exciting one today thanks to the fact that it’s so easy to hack it with custom firmware, opening up homebrew and emulation possibilities. Indeed, many people still swear…
From writers behind Star Trek: The Lower Decks & American Dad! Comedy Central has announced that it has greenlit a 10-episode animated series based on Sega’s beloved sidescrolling hack ‘n slash series Golden Axe (as reported by Variety). According to the announcement, the show will be animated by Titmouse, with CBS Eye Animation producing along…
“This collaboration marks a significant milestone”. Yesterday, Blaze announced it was refreshing its line of hardware with the Evercade VS-R and EXP-R, both of which will be launched in July alongside a brand-new cartridge which uses “Giga Cart” tech for expanding storage capacity. Blaze has now confirmed that this cart will be Tomb Raider Collection…
Final Doom has been backported, too. The PS1 version of Doom wasn’t the first port of the PC original – it had already been on the Jaguar and 3DO and even SNES by the time it made its way to Sony’s 32-bit console – but it’s one of the most popular, mainly because the PlayStation…
“I’ve waited long enough”. Infidelity, the talented porter who was previously behind the fanmade SNES conversions of Mega Man, Mega Man II, and Mega Man IV, has revealed that he is finally going to give the same treatment to the third entry in the classic series: Mega Man 3. In a recent Twitter post, the…
Here we are with another special announcement, as if any of you remember the 2005 mobile phone game of ‘Doom RPG’; a game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment combining the Doom first-person shooter franchise with role-playing video game elements. Then at some point in the near future, you could be playing Szilárd Biró/BSzili’s port of Doom…
Love Letters was made using the Pulp editor. A particularly creative developer has just proposed to his girlfriend in the most adorable way — by developing a custom game for Panic’s pocket-sized handheld, the Playdate (thanks @Eurogamer for the spot!). Aaron Nielsen, the developer in question, is a former Sea of Thieves game designer, who…
Has been “out of service for several years”. Someone is selling the PlayStation Experience trailer used by Sony back in 2006 to promote its PSP handheld and PS2 home console (thanks, IGN). The trailer was spotted on Facebook Marketplace by Reddit user ArguingMaster, and is festooned with related branding, including posters for ATV Offroad Fury…