Retro Gaming News
Check out a sample chapter here… We’re pleased to report that The Console Chronicles, a book we’re working on with Lost in Cult, has managed to pass its funding target of £70,000 with almost a week to spare. The book – which will celebrate the history of home console gaming and showcases many familiar writers…
Amico HomeTM The Intellivision team is excited to announce the public beta release of Amico HomeTM for Android®! Amico HomeTM is the Amico console gaming experience delivered on other hardware platforms that many people already own. We are starting with Android® and iOS® mobile devices, premiering now on Android® and coming later to Apple iOS®….
Void out. While the Evercade family of systems is home to a wide range of cartridge collections packed with retro games, we’re now seeing ‘native’ titles which have been designed from the ground up to work on the Evercade hardware rather than via emulation. Full Void is perhaps the most high-profile of these yet (it…
There’s not much to see of ‘C64 – The Mysterious Cassette’. Allister Brimble, the composer behind a bunch of classic soundtracks including the various Alien Breed titles, has just contributed some original music for a brand-new release for the Commodore Amiga. The confusingly-titled C64 – The Mysterious Cassette is a text adventure game developed by…
The competition meant that they had to innovate, and with that came unique peripherals, transparent coloured shells and a plethora of unique gaming experiences throughout the 90’s and 2000’s that introduced video game characters that are still around to this day. Nowadays though, it feels like console designs and limited edition variants have far less…
“We were told not to treat McDonald’s burgers with such disrespect”. This year gave us a welcome instance of a major commercial brand doing something fun with a video game when McDonald’s commissioned Grimace’s Birthday for the Game Boy Color. The title – coded by Gumpy Function and Pearacidic – was made with passion and…
Arriving tomorrow! Hamster has revealed that it will be bringing Namco’s obscure multi-directional shooter Warp & Warp (otherwise known in North America as Warp Warp) to Nintendo Switch & PS4 on November 22nd (thanks Gosokkyu!). Released in Japanese and North American arcades back in 1981, Warp & Warp puts players in control of a monster…
Time flies. N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is 25 years old today. Released in Japan on November 21st 1998, the N64 action adventure redefined the Zelda series, bringing it into 3D for the first time ever. Created by a core team including Eiji Aonuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Kensuke Tanabe and series creator…
Six of the best from Irem. Irem is best known today for its genre-defining R-Type series, and this collection for the Evercade includes the game that kicked off that famous lineage. R-Type is comfortably the biggest reason to invest in this pack, but it’s joined by some equally commendable picks from the Japanese developer’s history….
We have explosive. WipEout exploded onto the scene in 1995 and proved to be an instrumental release in the PlayStation’s Western launch lineup. Its combination of fast racing action, a pumping techno soundtrack and impeccable graphic design (thanks to The Designers Republic) resulted in a critical and commercial smash, and WipEout went on to become…