Retro Gaming News
Featuring Boulder Dash, Summer Games II, & many more. Earlier today, Evercade unveiled TheC64 Collection 3, the latest in its series of cartridge-based retro reissues for its Evercade line of consoles. The collection will feature 13 games that were previously released for the Commodore 64 back in the 80s, including sports titles, classic shoot ’em…
Preserving ‘Nintendo Game Pack’ cards for a new generation. Before we get into the nitty gritty of this piece, some background info. The original plan was to write an article documenting the more than ten examples of lost and forgotten Zelda games, which included the Barcode Battler cards, the Milton Bradley board game, and the…
The game has been rated by Taiwan’s classification body. The Taiwanese video game classification body has rated Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for PS4 and PS5, as reported by Gematsu (and picked up by VGC). This has inevitably led some online to speculate that it may be about to join the collection of…
“The Americans took to this like you wouldn’t believe”. The following is an edited extract from the book Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood, which explores the stories behind rare and unusual consoles, computers and coin-ops. In this chapter, Lewis focuses on the history of the 1990s company Virtuality, which pioneered virtual reality arcade…
You can now finally try out this epic RPG in English! Hudson Soft’s 1989 Japan-exclusive role-playing game Tengai Makyou: Ziria (otherwise known as Far East of Eden: Ziria) has just been translated into English, thanks to fans (as spotted by David Shadoff on Twitter). So if you’ve ever wanted to dig into this PC Engine…
Arrives December 14th. D4 Entertainment and Project EGG have revealed that the next title coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of its Console EGG series of rereleases will be Nihon Falcom’s PC-88 action RPG hit Xanadu (thanks gosokkyu!) The second game in the Dragon Slayer series, Xanadu was released for the PC-88 in…
Part of the ‘Robot Spirits’ series. Back in 1996, Bandai released the first entry in the Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: The Blue Destiny series, a trilogy of Sega Saturn games that has remained exclusive to Japan. Despite the lack of a Western localisation, the trilogy has gained a cult following among Gundam fans, thanks…
An interactive documentary coming from Digital Eclipse in 2024 Gridrunner. Revenge of the Mutant Camels. Tempest 2000. Llamatron. In the British gaming universe of the ’80s and ’90s, nobody made games like Jeff Minter. Just revealed in the Day of the Devs showcase, Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is an interactive documentary coming to PC…
The project was leaked last year in an SEC filing. Update : Digital Eclipse has finally revealed that the next game in its Gold Masters series will be Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. The interactive documentary was unveiled at Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition earlier today, and will feature 42 titles from…
“Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables”. There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn’t typically one of them. Nevertheless, that’s exactly what happened to Perfect Entertainment’s Manchester studio in 1996…