Retro Gaming News
Coming to Kickstarter soon. Indie developer PSCD Games is working on an action title for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive called Cyber Mission, and it’s looking very promising indeed. A side-scrolling shmup in which you control a flying solder, it reminds us a little of Capcom’s Forgotten Worlds, which is certainly no bad thing…
Wonder Boy! Choplifter! Sega Ninja! Sega’s System 1 (1983) and System 2 (1985) arcade hardware is coming to the Analogue Pocket, we can reveal. A new OpenFPGA core by Boogermann / marcusjordan is in development and will be released shortly, according to Pixel Cherry Ninja. Read the full article on timeextension.com Wonder Boy! Choplifter! Sega…
The Miyoo Mini Flip has some competition. We’re already getting an emulation-based GBA clone in the form of the Miyoo Mini Flip, but rival firm Anbernic is preparing its own device with the same form factor. The RG35XX SP has leaked in a short video on social media and clearly takes inspiration from Nintendo’s popular…
The March ’99 announcement of the upcoming PlayStation 2 console instantly triggered a mental countdown timer for me. I knew I had to keep my finger on the proverbial pulse to ensure I could reserve one at my local EB Games store. I asked the store’s team to keep me abreast of when the PlayStation…
“PLEASE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS SCAM SITE”. DK Oldies, an 18-year-old, family-owned business selling vintage and classic video games and hardware, was apparently hacked in the past 24 hours, with the perpetrator revealing information about the company’s controversial pricing policies. The message “F**K DKOLDIES AND THEIR SCAM” was seen by several people before…
New hack adds Hi Score S-RAM, new modes, new difficulties, & more! If you’re a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, we have some good news to share. An exciting new fan hack for the Mega Drive / Genesis title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist has just been released online, adding a bunch of…
“The Dungeon on Blood Island”. Games industry legend and Fighting Fantasy co-creator Sir Ian Livingstone has revealed that he has penned another sequel to 1984’s Deathtrap Dungeon. The original book turns 40 this year and was followed by direct sequels Trial of Champions (1986) and Armies of Death (1988). Read the full article on timeextension.com…
You can preorder the book now from Amazon. A new book focusing on Nintendo’s ill-fated stereoscopic console the Virtual Boy has just been announced and is scheduled to be released next month on May 14th. Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy is a new entry in MIT Press’s “Platform Studies” series (a series focusing on the…
The key to success. Accessory maker 8BitDo is releasing another mechanical keyboard, this time based on the iconic C64. The second in the company’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard series, which includes a NES / Famicom version, which we reviewed not so long ago. It’s essentially the same deal here, just with design flourishes which mimic Commodore’s…
“The speed of advancement surpassed even my expectations”. It’s doubtful that the video game world will experience a change quite as dramatic as the shift from 2D to 3D again. Within the space of just a few years 3D gaming became the norm, and the transition was so swift that it even took the legendary…