Retro Gaming News
Just what the doctor ordered! It’s been five years since support for the last entry in the Dr. Mario series, the mobile title Dr. Mario World, was shut down. As a result, people have mostly had to revisit older entries for their daily dose of medicine-themed puzzle-solving. Out of the shadows, however, it appears that…
‘Prepare to make your Jaguar ROAR!’. A brand-new ’80s-style shmup is headed to the Atari Jaguar. Star Streak is a 360-degree arcade blaster developed by Songbird Productions, the studio behind previous Jaguar games Old Towers and Wings of Death, as well as upcoming releases Shape Shooter 2000 and Zool Collection. As you can see from…
Start your engines! Namco’s 1996 arcade sequel, Ace Driver Victory Lap, is coming to consoles for the first time as part of the Arcade Archives range. Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, released the first game in the F1-themed series, 1994’s Ace Driver, on modern platforms back in May of this year, but has now…
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the late Gunpei Yokoi’s core design philosophy, the one that led to him parting ways with Nintendo when the company decided to focus on creating more powerful hardware. Lateral thinking with withered technology. The idea being, that it’s possible to create truly exceptional game designs by working…
An arcade token could buy another turn at a game, but it could not pay for the bus home. Its usefulness ended at the door. That limitation was part of its appeal to the business selling it. Once cash became tokens, it stayed in the arcade. Over the following decades, those tokens became card balances,…
‘Sidhe!’. For veteran video game fans, perhaps nothing sparks the nostalgia quite like seeing the iconic sprites from your favourite childhood games. These are characters that, despite being constructed from a mere pocketful of pixels, became permanently embedded in our minds and memories – simplistic designs that immediately conjure up wonderful and indelible images of…
‘Hmph… It’s the coolest’. Former MotoGP-turned-World Endurance Championship (EWC) rider Sylvain Guintoli has parted with his one-of-a-kind, Sega-designed, Shadow The Hedgehog-themed motorbike. The “Dark Rider – Year of the Shadow” bike was auctioned earlier this month, selling for a staggering price far surpassing its evaluation. Guintoli is renowned for his recent charity work as much…
Pre-orders open October 22. Boutique outlet Limited Run Games, in conjunction with publisher Atari, has announced that SiN: Reloaded is to receive a physical edition on PS5. Nightdive Studios’ remaster, which launched just last month, is an upgraded and overhauled version of the first-person shooter classic, which hit the PC scene in 1998. Originally developed…
Where no-one can hear you scream… Publisher Komi Games Inc. has announced that Infested DX, a remastered edition of developer GrahfMetal’s itch.io game, is coming to Steam on October 27, boasting a visual overhaul and a gutful of new features. Taking its cue from the DOS horror adventures of the late ’80s and early ’90s,…
“We’ve been concerned by recent news of games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published…”. Digital Sun, the indie developers of Moonlighter, has announced it is delaying a public playtest of its latest game, the Castlevania-inspired tower-defence title ReVamp, in response to cloning fears. In a statement released to social media, the Spanish development studio thanked people…