Retro Gaming News
“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…
There are more than you think… The Evercade family of systems is a glorious throwback to the days when physical media was king, and there was no such thing as a lengthy online update before loading up your game – but the range harks back to the past in other ways, too, such as the…
What a shodown! The Nintendo Entertainment System – or ‘NES‘ for short – may not have sold as many units as the PlayStation or Wii, but it remains one of the most influential consoles of all time. Not only did it resurrect the console sector in North America – arguably the world’s biggest market for…
Better yet, it’s free! The Sega Master System may have debuted in North America back in 1986, but games are still being released for the console all these years later, thanks to its amazing community of homebrew developers. Case in point — earlier this week, the developer badcomputer0 announced that they had released a brand…
How hard is yours? Worms has become one of the most recognisable brands in the world of video gaming, which is no mean feat when you consider that it all started as a personal experiment by computer shop staffer Andy Davidson on his humble Casio graphing calculator. This triple-pack of Worms titles kicks off with…
Arrives on December 7th. Namco’s racing sequel Pole Position II will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop & PS4 this week on December 7th, as reported by Famitsu. It joins the original game, which was released across both consoles earlier this year on July 6th. Pole Position II debuted in the arcades back in…
Valis! El Viento! Gaiares! Exile! Renovation was one of many publishers who made a tidy profit bringing Japanese games to Western shores (mainly Wolf Team and Telenet titles) and this Evercade collection pulls together a whopping 12 of the firm’s most notable Genesis / Mega Drive titles. We’re not talking AAA here – these are…
The Atari 2600+ builds on the legacy of the original machine with modern quality of life features such as HDMI output, USB power and multiple screen resolutions, and includes an exact replica of the original CX40+ Joystick. The cartridge slot is backwards compatible with hundreds of original Atari 2600 and 7800 games. The ‘10 Games…
Just don’t expect AAA power. AYANEO is famous for its line of well-built and powerful handheld PCs, but it has recently announced an initiative which expands its range into products such as desktop PCs, power banks and even Game Boy-style Android portables. The AYANEO Retro Mini PC AM01 is the first release in the company’s…
Updated rosters! Gameplay tweaks! And graphical enhancements! EA Sports NHL ’94 is often considered to be one of the best hockey games of all time, so it should probably come as no surprise then, that there is still a tremendous community out there dedicated to updating the game, with new players, tweaks, and bug fixes…