Retro Gaming News
Including Backyard Football & Backyard Baseball! On a recent episode of the New Heights podcast, the NFL star and media personality Jason Kelce let slip some news that should excite gamers who grew up playing Humungous Entertainment’s Backyard Sports series. Speaking to his brother and co-host Travis, he revealed that he has secretly been looking…
Very Ninteresting. JoeyN64 is a new N64 dumper device which allows you to legally download your N64 games and their respective save data – as well as flash homebrew ROMs to compatible carts. The device connects via USB-C and is treated by your computer as an external drive, making the process as pain-free as possible….
Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network & Legend of Network were preserved last December. Last December, RockmanCosmo, the leader of the feature phone preservationist group SciLabSecrets, announced that the team had successfully managed to preserve full copies of the incredibly rare Japan-exclusive Mega Man games Rockman.EXE Phantom of Network and Legend of Network. These were two mobile…
The clash of titans. When Capcom hit upon the idea of creating crossover fighters with 1996’s X-Men vs. Street Fighter, it kicked into motion a series of games which would include some of the best brawlers in the business – including Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. The Japanese…
Cosam has created a custom Neptune motherboard. Remember that custom Sega Neptune mod? We filled you in on the mythical console’s existence a short time ago, with fans taking existing Sega Genesis and 32X parts and combining them to create the all-in-one system that sadly never saw release back in the day. Retro tech modder…
“I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything”. Before iPhone and Android devices became the primary platforms for mobile gaming, there was already a healthy community of gamers in Japan experiencing the joy of playing video games on their phone, thanks to the emergence of Japanese feature phones. These proto-smartphones…
Over 4,000 votes entered. Japanese retro gaming ‘Mangaka’ (which means comic artist or cartoonist) KABU recently asked their followers to vote for the best Saturn games of all time, and, with more than 4,000 votes submitted, the results are now in (thanks @gosokkyu). What’s most surprising about the top ten is that, despite the console’s…
Capcom has yet to give a reason why they were removed. As recently highlighted by Wario64 on Twitter, Capcom’s Devil May Cry 4 and Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition have both been delisted from Steam. The news comes just days after another company 2K had to remove its cult-military shooter Spec-Ops: The Line from…
“The Quarry team was originally Until Dawn 2 working with Sony”. Last night’s State of Play saw Sony announce a newly rebuilt and enhanced port of Until Dawn for PS5 and PC, from the developer Ballistic Moon, again raising the question of why its original developer Supermassive Games has yet to make a sequel to…
“Psycho-thriller and Hunting RPG” now playable in English. Initially released in 1995 on the PC Engine CD, Linda³ (or Linda Cubed / Cube, if you prefer) has gone down as one of the most bizarre JRPGs ever made. Set on the planet of Neo Kenya, the “Psycho-thriller and Hunting RPG” (Alfa System’s words, not ours)…