Retro Gaming News
From G-Mode no less! As is always the case with Nintendo Directs, there were a couple of announcements made in the Japanese version of the broadcast that were missing from those shown in other regions. While many will likely be most excited about the news that Mother 3 has been announced as coming to the…
Memory lane. When the first official images of the Saturn appeared around 1994, one aspect of the console’s design caught the attention of some people: the cartridge slot. It led some to assume that the machine would be backwards compatible with the Mega Drive, or that it would support both CDs and cartridge-based Saturn software….
Which one will you be playing first? As part of today’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, Nintendo announced that 5 classic Rare games have just been added to the Nintendo Switch Online service. These titles include two NES titles (R.C. Pro-Am & Snake Rattle ‘N’ Roll), two SNES games (Battletoads in Battlemaniacs & Killer Instinct), and…
The VHS-based game system was released in 1989. The View-Master Interactive Vision is a system that we’re guessing not a lot of our readers will be aware of. It was introduced in 1988 by the toy company View-Master Ideal Group and used technology originally created by a New York technology manufacturer named ACTV to provide…
“Initial work on supporting third-party analogue inputs” has begun. The arrival of N64 games on Evercade has people very excited indeed about the future of the platform, but there’s one big issue to note: Evercade lacks analogue control, which is a big part of N64 games. While Blaze has done its best to mitigate this…
“We think that your search might be associated with child sexual abuse”. If you search for ‘Mega Drive’ on Facebook or Instagram, you might find you’re out of luck, as it appears that parent company Meta is suppressing the term following concerns about child exploitation. As spotted by Twitter user @dodgykebaab, typing the term “Japanese…
Will start distribution on February 22nd. Hamster has announced that the next retro arcade game heading to Nintendo Switch & PS4 as part of Arcade Archives will be Konami’s maze-action title Jungler. It will start being distributed across different platforms and regions on February 22nd. Jungler was originally released in the arcades back in 1981…
1981 console once had 70% of the Japanese market. Back in 1981, Epoch released the Cassette Vision console in Japan. It would go on to sell an impressive 400,000 units, securing around 70% of the market and making it the most successful product of its kind in that country until the arrival of the Nintendo…
All guns blazing. With its monochrome, ultra-widescreen display, simplistic controls and signature crank, Playdate offers an interface which is quite unlike anything else on the market at present – and while that’s undoubtedly a positive, it means that the bright yellow handheld isn’t as well-suited to every genre of game as it perhaps could be….
In recent years, the world of video game modifications, or “modding,” has exploded significantly. Nowadays, you can modify components, consoles, controllers, and memory cards! Whether it’s changing out the shell of your controller to that perfect shade of cherry blossom pink or giving your Nintendo Gamecube Bluetooth connectivity, there’s a mod for you. Not every…