Retro Gaming News
The Lion King was released for the Super Nintendo and Game Gear in 1994. The game preservation group Codebound announced this week that it has archived a previously unreleased prototype of Westwood Studios’ notoriously difficult licensed platformer The Lion King for the Super Nintendo. This version of the game is dated March 22nd, 1994 —…
The arcade beat ’em up was released back in 1991. Hamster has announced that it will be releasing Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode Three later this week as part of Arcade Archives. The game will be released on Nintendo Switch and PS4 on December 19th and will even feature a setting that tries to emulate…
“It seemed an ideal time”. Tim Langdell, the famous copyright troll who took on the likes of Namco, Future Publishing and EA over the use of the word ‘Edge’ in various products, has reimerged to hawk an updated version of his ZX Spectrum book, which was first published all the way back in 1982. The…
2.4GHz wireless connectivity! Bluetooth! Hall sticks! The GameCube has a reputation for being a fighting game console, thanks mainly to the fact that Super Smash Bros. Melee exists on it. There are also titles like Soulcalibur II and Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO on the system, so you can see the wisdom in positioning a…
The MSX title was originally released back in 1983. Nisso’s MSX rescue action game Aqua Polis SOS is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop later this week, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE label. Originally released in 1983 for MSX computers, the single-screen arcade-style game tasks players with piloting a submarine to the bottom of…
Even though the Caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet and I’m still half asleep, I thought I’d give quick a shout out to Kim Fastrup Larsen’s new remake update of ‘Labyrinth’ for the Commodore Amiga. A game in which the developer says “is a remake of a Commodore 64 game published by Commodore in 1983 (not to…
“We were really proud of how much we pushed the hardware, but it really didn’t sell that well”. When Dragon’s Lair was originally released in the arcades back in 1983, it was one of the most visually impressive and technologically advanced titles available. Utilizing the latest in LaserDisc technology, the game was capable of streaming…
Pac-Man (1980), Space Invaders (1978), and Donkey Kong (1981) are all iconic titles from the late 1970s and 1980s that marked a turning point in gaming history. Titles such as these alongside others that followed a similar pattern, set standards for player interactions through highly interactive gameplay. These games introduced new game mechanics that impacted…
The game is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. A new survival platformer is heading to the NES (as recently spotted by @dale_coop). Hazard: Let Us Out is a new game from the homebrew developer and retro enthusiast Gilbert Vera that originally began development during the 2019 NESMaker Bytoff game jam. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
The horror! Back in 1944, NBC Radio aired “The Curse of the Mantle”, an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1838 short story, Lady Eleanore’s Mantle, as part of its ‘Weird Circle’ horror series. The story focuses on Lady Eleanore, who receives the titular cursed mantle, an evil artefact which has a dramatic impact on both its…