Retro Gaming News
“It’s great to have had an influence on where retro gaming now is”. Incredibly, March marks the 20th anniversary of the UK’s Retro Gamer magazine, one of the first mainstream publications to truly celebrate the incredible legacy of classic gaming. Issue one arrived back in 2004 under the banner of Live Publishing, which sadly went…
If you’ve ever had a Nintendo and a Light Gun, then chances are that you would’ve played the 1984/95 NES game of ‘Duck Hunt’: A game in which players fired a NES Zapper at a CRT television, with three attempts per round to shoot ducks and clay pigeons. Well if you remember our previous announcement …
If only we’d had this back in the ’90s. The introduction of trading in the original Game Boy Pokémon games was a watershed moment for many players. Here was the chance to create a physical connection with other fans and exchange digital monsters via a handy link cable interface; it felt like the future in…
“Save your scores and play a mean game of Pinball”. Devil’s Crash is one of the best pinball games of all time and is influential enough to have inspired the equally brilliant Demon’s Tilt on modern-day systems. Developed by Compile for the PC Engine / TG-16, the game was ported to the Mega Drive (where…
“Yes this is real”. Aftermarket mods can result in some truly amazing bespoke creations, such as backlit Game Boys and consolised Neo Geo MVS systems. However, sometimes the world of homemade mods throws up some more (ahem) “unique” offerings, and that’s precisely what VGC’s Andy Robinson has stumbled upon on Facebook Marketplace. Read the full…
Another indie title on the way. Indie developers Broke Studio and GGS Studio Creation are following up on their Genesis / Mega Drive action platformer The Cursed Knight with The Cursed Legacy, a game which mixes run-and-gun mechanics with some unique 2D gameplay innovations, such as the ability to shoot from behind cover. As you…
In the distant future, a mad scientist and his army of darkness seek to enslave the people of Earth. Hope for all humanity rests with The Resistance, but are they enough? Enter Kei, a rookie hero who is transformed by mysterious Orb energy into BERSERK BOY! With high-speed action and the power to defeat evil,…
Which of the 12 are you going to vote for? Earlier today, the Strong Museum announced the 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2024. According to the announcement sent out to the press, the museum assembled this collection of titles from thousands of nominations, with the shortlist taking into…
Capcom’s million-selling series, ranked. Capcom’s Street Fighter is now over 35 years old, and following the launch of the most recent entry, Street Fighter 6, it felt as good a time as any to ask the most important of questions: no, not “What’s the meaning of life?” or “Why do I only have odd socks…
The book has somehow managed to raise £2560, almost half its goal. A new Kickstarter book claiming to be an “exhaustive review of the point-and-click adventure games produced by Lucasfilm between 1986 and 2000” has come under criticism recently for its use of AI art and for “pilfering” information from different sources like Wikipedia and…