Retro Gaming News
“The Mega Drive is truly a wonderful machine”. Even though the 16-bit console war ended decades ago, there are still people who care deeply about which machine is ‘best’: Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis or Nintendo’s SNES. In terms of raw sales, Nintendo was the clear victor – it sold 49.10 million SNES consoles compared…
Coming as part of the 2024/2025 schedule. Quarter Arcades will be adding Data East’s 1987 arcade title The Real Ghostbusters to its range of 1/4-scale coin-op cabinets, it has been revealed (thanks, Ghostbusters News). Darren Brown, product manager at Numskull Designs (Quarter Arcades’ parent company), posted the news on the Quarter Arcade Facebook group. “Bustin’…
The discussion will be livestreamed on December 10th. December 10th will mark the 30th anniversary of Doom, the legendary first-person shooter from Id Software. So, to celebrate John Romero and John Carmack are getting together to talk about the creation of the game live on a special livestream. The news comes courtesy of John Romero…
Can you feel the sunshine? If you constantly find yourself revisiting old Sonic soundtracks for that sweet hit of nostalgia, then you might be just as excited as us to hear about the brand new album from the record label Game Chops and the LA composer Funk Fiction called Sonic & Chill. The 14-track album…
While many of you have probably played Shadow Dancer back in the day on the Amiga, some of you felt while the game was fun, it was lacking in graphics, noting by many as having an Atari ST colour-palette and no Parallax. Well one such user might be changing that negative view, as msmalik681 has shown…
Rooney! Ronaldinho! Nakata! Messi! Ronaldo! As hard as it may be to comprehend, the era of FIFA is now over. Back in 2022, EA and the footballing body decided against continuing their business partnership, and instead, the video game series is now known as EA Sports FC, with EA Sports FC 24 being the inaugural…
1997 classic gets fan-made translation patch. Treasure really knew how to make Sega’s hardware sing, and its developers produced a string of classics across the Mega Drive / Genesis and Saturn. Sadly, due to the Saturn’s lukewarm commercial performance in the West, not all of these titles got an English-language release at the time –…
Alongside new micro-console releases. Retro Games Ltd., the company behind the C64 and A500 Mini micro-consoles, has revealed its product roadmap for the next few years. The headline news is that the company plans to release a full-size “Amiga console” in Q4, 2024. This will sit alongside the A500 Mini system, which launched in 2022….
“If it succeeded, I would get the plaudits. If it failed, I would get the sack”. Mixed reality has seen renewed interest once again thanks to Apple, Meta and many others betting big on the VR space. However, this wouldn’t be the first time the technology has proven itself to be commercially successful; Sony knows…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss Offering several Atari 2600 games in our November 3-4 Signature Auction warms my heart. As the Lead Video Game Cataloger with Heritage, and as a gamer who enjoys all eras, I love “everything from Atari to Xbox,” as the saying goes, but the Atari 2600 represents my…