Retro Gaming News
Coming to Steam Early Access. Last year, we told you all about Pizza Bear Games’ Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess, an exciting new Steam game inspired by the likes Desert Strike & Choplifter, which is scheduled to come to Steam at some point in the far future. Well, as it turns out, it isn’t the…
UPDATE: Parts 1 & 2 available now! Update #2 (Tue 27th Feb, 2024 14:00 GMT): We’re admittedly a little late to this, but the hacker Yuvi and translator SnowyAria have finally published part two of their translation patch for Madou Monogatari 123. The patch was released earlier this month on February 22nd, and once again…
Grab your popcorn! While it’s quite common now for modern video game consoles to come pre-built with the ability to play movies, back in the days of the Atari 2600, the hardware’s limitations meant that people never even dreamed about the possibility of being able to watch films on the device. Yet, despite that, a…
“We never imagined it would end like this”. A Japanese retro arcade which housed many iconic arcade machines was consumed by fire this week, destroying 10 years of hard work. The Living Bird store, located in Towada City, Aomori Prefecture, was devastated by a blaze which started in a neighbouring unit and spread through the…
Coming 10.10.2025. A trailer recently dropped online for a new Super Mario World ROM hack that aims to imagine what a Super Mario Bros. game might have looked like had it been released on a fictional CD-based version of the NES / Nintendo Famicom. Super Mario Bros. CD, as the project is called, is the…
“There’s a lot more to come and I have other tricks up my sleeve”. Mega Final Fight dev Mauro Xavier has revealed that he is in the early stages of creating an RPG for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The title is called Into the Darkness, and is giving us serious Dungeons & Dragons…
“It was a very sombre time for me”. Yoshinori Kitase has worked on some of the most famous JRPGs ever made, including Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X, and is currently head of Square Enix’s Creative Business Unit I, as well as company vice president, a…
“We were sweating at the time”. We recently spoke to the key creatives behind FIFA Road to World Cup 98, one of the most transformative entries in the long-running soccer series. As noted in the piece, this entry was the first in the franchise to use licensed music from real-world acts rather than rely solely…
“That’s the best FIFA that’s ever been made and still is”. Back when we were putting together our ‘Making of’ for FIFA International Soccer, we asked several members of the FIFA team to name their favourite FIFA game, and almost unanimously, they answered with a single title: FIFA Road to World Cup 98. Originally released…
And you can play it in your web browser now. Sega’s iconic arcade racer Turbo OutRun has been updated by fans, and you can play it in your browser right now. Turbo Outrun Reimagined has been developed by Sk1ds and features four playable cars and five different races to participate in. Careless driving will damage…