Retro Gaming News
“I thought, ‘How can you put these things together?’”. In 1938, Franzi Mechner, at just seven years old, was separated from his parents while fleeing from Nazi-occupied Austria. Travelling with his aunt Lisa, he spent the next three years evading the Gestapo across Europe, before eventually reuniting with his family in 1941. Flash forward to…
David Wise, Stoo Cambridge and Tony Warriner all confirmed. Last year saw the inaugural Kickstart Amiga show, a live event in the UK spearheaded by The Retro Hour’s Ravi Abbott. Attended by plenty of like-minded Commodore Amiga lovers, the show had hardware, software and special guests – and, by all accounts, went down a storm….
Final Formation is the second in City Connection’s “Final” series of retro revivals. At this year’s Shooters Fes, which took place in Japan over the weekend, Happymeal and City Connection announced Final Formation — the second entry into its “Final” series of Jaleco revivals, following last year’s Final Exerion (thanks Gosokkyu!). It is scheduled to…
Games, clothing, merch and more! The first few months of the year are usually pretty quiet on the retail front, but there are always great retro gaming delights to be found – if you know where to look! Below, you’ll find a selection of new retro-related goodies that have launched recently or that are now…
The announcement was made at this year’s Shooters Fes. During this year’s Shooters Fes in Japan, City Connection revealed the news that it will be releasing the Mega Drive port of Jaleco’s horizontally-scrolling shooter P47: The Phantom Fighter — almost 30 years after it was originally cancelled. Just to give you a quick bit of…
Based on Darkness Ethereal’s DOS release from 2000. Homebrew developer Rafael Daniel has revealed that a SNES port of Darkness Ethereal’s 2000 DOS freeware release Mysterious Song is nearing completion. The game has previously been ported to the NEC TurboGrafx CD by Frozen Utopia, and it was this version which brought it to Daniel’s attention….
“This game is a work of art and it should be preserved”. Perhaps the greatest contribution to society that American singer and actor Barbra Streisand made is the so-called “Streisand effect”. That is the backfiring attempt to hide something from the internet, resulting in said thing being more well-known than before the attempts started. Singing…
Faceball 2000, the way it was meant to be played. Seasoned Game Boy fans will be aware of the title Faceball 2000. Originally released in 1991, it is based on the Atari ST title MIDI Maze, which used the computer’s MIDI ports to daisy-chain systems together for 16-person local multiplayer games. Ported to the Game…
New border and custom palette. The Game Boy title Metroid II: Return of Samus has just received a colourful spruce-up thanks to the efforts of first-time modder Ryallasha N’vetay. Metroid II: SGB Enhanced adds a Super Game Boy border and custom palette to the monochrome title, making it look a lot more lively and interesting….
Takara’s Roulette controller was exclusive to Japan. A Japanese modder has turned a rare PS1 accessory into a fully working PlayStation console (thanks, Dexerto). Hairo Satoh – better known as haihaisb on Instagram – has long been sharing his wild and wacky creations with his followers, but his mods are usually focused on the Game…