Retro Gaming News
“We’re going to have to have a press announcement. We’re going to have to apologize”. On January 14th, 1999, members of the Tiger Woods ’99 team turned up to work at Electronic Arts’ Redwood studio and were confronted with some surprising news. Reports had started circulating the office that somebody had called into a radio…
The inside story of Atari’s battle with Nintendo. We recently had the extraordinary good fortune to sit down recently for a chat with video game industry veteran Lawrence Siegel to discuss his amazing career and his fascinating battle with Nintendo during his tenure at Atari. Siegel oversaw the release of the Atari Lynx, a powerful…
The “Ghost Boy” was a concept that sadly never made it to the screen. Last year, Christian Pearce, a senior concept artist at Weta Workshop, released a bunch of the concept art that he had created for 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This included a fascinating glimpse at an unused, alternative spin on the Ghostbusters’ PKE…
“I can only reveal this much for now”. Chinese firm Aya Neo has really shaken things up in the portable hardware space via its range of powerful handheld PCs, but the company is branching out with its range of retro-inspired products – the first of which, the AM01, is a mini PC with a case…
“It was all about saving six cents. It was not about the big picture”. In the late 80s and early 90s, Lawrence Siegel had the unenviable task of turbo-charging Atari’s software development, at a time when Nintendo had a monopoly on the market. Siegel was a veteran of the games industry, having started his career…
This ain’t no gimmick. Japanese company Sunsoft was a pretty big deal back in the 8 and 16-bit days, publishing many popular titles across the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. However, it was one of those firms that struggled to transition into the world of 32- and 64-bit gaming, a…
Console yourself. If you grew up with the Amiga, then The Bitmap Brothers will need no introduction. This legendary British developer was responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed games of the ’80s and ’90s, and even today, titles like Speedball 2, Gods and The Chaos Engine remain solid-gold classics. You can see, then,…
…and I bring you… The first Evercade Toaplan Arcade collection was packed with big hitters from the Japanese company’s history, including Zero Wing, Truxton, Flying Shark and Tiger Heli. While Toaplan’s back catalogue has more than enough hits to make a second pack justifiable, this follow-up isn’t quite as essential – but it remains highly…
“I hate the fact that we had all this potential”. The Fable series was one of Microsoft’s early IP hits when it was growing its Xbox brand, with the first and second games gaining rave reviews and bumper sales. However, Fable 3 is considered to be something of a disappointment, especially when it promised the…
Three years after its announcement, Analogue is finally shipping the Analogue Duo: a modern reimagining of NEC’s systems that can play games made for the TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, TurboGrafx CD, PC Engine CD-ROM, and Super Arcade CD-ROM. In an update on Friday, Analogue says the Duo will start shipping on December 11th and is on…