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Shipping now! Forty-five years ago, Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders, one of the most influential video games of all time. Now, he’s getting to grips with the game via an entirely new format: a 1/4 scale arcade cab from Quarter Arcades. Numskull Designs, the company which owns Quarter Arcades, has released a video of Nishikado…

Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss I’ve been a cataloger here at Heritage Auctions for two years, but this month marks the first time we’ve offered the Super Nintendo version of Mr. Do!, my favorite video game of all time. There are only four copies on Wata’s June 2023 population report, and the…

The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball.  Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Elvira Blood Red Kiss Edition: [embedded content] In addition to a killer new Blood Red Kiss Edition of Elvira’s House of Horrors, Stern Pinball released several exciting updates for fans…

Word on the streets is that Warner Bros is leaving Antstream Arcade, but do not fret retro gamer! For every game, there is an alternative or Ant-ernative; for every legend, another hero is willing to step into the breach. Join us as we look at what you can discover instead… Shrinking Back To Human Form:…

They want how much for Rule of Rose?! Last month, we kicked off the first of our regular CeX Retro Watch features, showcasing the interesting retro offerings at various branches of the popular high street retailer. This month, we’ve got another selection of choice vintage cuts – some of which boast particularly eye-watering price tags….

Includes remixes by Kode9, μ-Ziq, Brainwaltzera, Simo Cell, Datassette & more. You don’t have to do too much research to realize we’re all fairly big fans of WipEout here at Time Extension. If we so much as sniff a story that we can connect back to Psygnosis’s classic antigrav racer, we’ll typically be there to…

“I’m actually happy that people could dive into their childhood”. Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars, commonly known as Heroes II, is a turn-based strategy title released in 1996 during a golden era of PC gaming. It won numerous awards that year and remains popular with fans to this day due to…

Now available from the game’s Kickstarter. The retro publisher Mega Cat Studios has just added a brand new Game Boy Advance tier to its ongoing Kickstarter for the NES puzzle platformer The Meating. So if you’re looking to expand your physical library of GBA games and like what you’ve seen of the project so far,…

And you can preorder it now! There have been a lot of great MSX homebrews being developed lately and Tiny Magic appears to be no exception. The puzzle adventure platformer was recently made available to preorder on Coté Gamers’ website and came to our attention thanks to the fine folks over at IndieRetroNews. Read the…