Retro Gaming News
Will be available on Steam & GOG on December 19th. The retro publisher SNEG has revealed that it will be bringing a bunch of classic Strategic Simulations, Inc, and Mindscape games to Steam and GOG on December 19th, giving people an easy way to check out a number of influential RPG and strategy games from…
Pre-orders are now open! The retro developer Neo Byte Force announced earlier this week on Twitter that preorders are now live on its website for its first-ever commercial video game Cyborg Force — a new run and gun scheduled to release next year for the Neo Geo AES/MVS, Sega Dreamcast, Sony PSP, PC, and emulation…
Arrives November 30th! Taito’s Scramble Formation (otherwise known in North America as Tokio) is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PS4 on November 30th, Hamster has revealed (thanks Famitsu/Gosokkyu!) The vertically-scrolling shooter debuted in the arcades back in 1986 and was later ported to the MSX in 1987. It saw players take control of a…
The game was originally released in Japan back in 1992. If you’re a fan of the Japanese “magical girl genre” of anime, you may have heard of Magical Princess Minky Momo. Originally broadcast between 1982 to 1983, it was a Japanese anime series, written by Takeshi Shudo, that followed a young princess named Momo who…
“Let’s not kill our console before it comes out.”. In a recent interview with Kiwi Talkz, the former Microsoft executive producer Garrett Young revealed that the company once cancelled a potential soccer game that was in development ahead of the launch of the Xbox as a condition to get EA to release its sports game…
Will cost less than the $1,800 being asked by eBay sellers… 1993’s Eliminate Down is one of the most collectable games on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. Developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision, it never saw release outside Japan and South Korea (Samsung stepped in as publisher in the latter region). This…
Help solve the strange case of a missing woman! When you think of horror games, the Game Boy might not be the first platform that immediately springs to mind, but nonetheless, the recent homebrew The Melting Apartment from Flower Studio is a short yet effective spine-tingler that we think is well worth your time (thanks…
Thanks to the interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin. Earlier this month, a bunch of source code for Infocom’s code-porting tools was finally preserved online, thanks to the efforts of influential interactive fiction designer and industry figure Andrew Plotkin (cheers Ars Technica for the spot!). This comes four years after the internet archivist Jason Scott published…
Man At Arms: Reforged originally created the sword back in 2019. We’re always amazed when someone takes the time to authentically recreate something from a video game in real life, and even more so, when it has something to do with one of our favourite video game series of all time: Castlevania. So when Man…
Only you can prevent a gravy drenched future! Back in 1984, IBM introduced a new display standard for their IBM line of personal computers. Enhanced Graphics Adapter or EGA (as it was often abbreviated) was a vast improvement over the CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) standard that was introduced earlier in 1981 and could produce up…