Retro Gaming News
Coming February 1st on PS4 & Nintendo Switch. Hamster has revealed that Tecmo’s horizontal shooter Silkworm is coming to Nintendo Switch & PS4 later this week as part of Arcade Archives. It will begin distribution on February 1st. Originally hitting arcades back in 1988, Silkworm was a sidescrolling action game that featured a unique multiplayer…
Update: Now you can see it in action! Update : Those most excellent dudes over at My Life In Gaming have created a video which shows off the SNES Edge-Enhancer and 2CHIP RGB Bypass Mods – check out to see the amazing results! Original Story : Like almost any piece of consumer technology that goes…
“Play as Jane Austen, English novelist, in this 2D platforming adventure”. When Jane Austen was writing her famous novels back in 18th century England, we doubt her boundless imagination could have predicted that one day, she would be immortalised in her very own NES action platformer – but that’s precisely what has happened. “Jane Austen’s…
In 1986 Sega released one of the greatest racers of our time, it just had to be Out Run. An Arcade racer designed by Yu Suzuki, that was not only a commercial success, but became one of the best selling games of its time. A game that featured incredible graphics, fantastic music and fast paced…
13 volumes will be available as e-books from February 8th. A classic out-of-print Ganbare Goemon manga series is getting reissued digitally in Japan, as spotted by the user Goemon International on Twitter. The series, written by Hiroshi Obi, was serialized in the pages of the manga magazine Comic Bombom between 1991 to 1998 and was…
Early bird pricing applies, too. Out of the many devices released by AYANEO in the past few years, the Flip DS and Flip KB are perhaps two of the most interesting. As the name suggests, these handheld PCs boast clamshell designs, very much like the iconic Nintendo DS. The key difference here is that they’re…
Summer comes early. Sensible Soccer is one of the greatest video game representations of the sport ever made, and while we haven’t had a new entry in the series for a while, fans are keeping the dream alive via Sensible World of Soccer 2020, which was recently updated to reflect the 23/24 season. Available for…
In space, no one can hear you read. Update : We now have a publication date for Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion! According to the book’s author Andy Kelly on Twitter, it will be published on August 8th later this year. If you’ve still yet to secure your copy, you can pre-order it now…
Comes in a 3D-printed case. A new GBA ROM and save data dumper has just been released in Japan by the name of INAZUMA REPLAY. Available in a 3D-printed case for 6,500 yen or a bare-board version for 4,500 yen, the device is created by Himitsunova and connects to your computer via a USB-C connection….
You can still buy it from Xbox, GOG, and third-party sellers. 2K and Yager Studios’ third-person military shooter Spec-Ops: The Line has unexpectedly been delisted from Steam, making it impossible to buy directly from the storefront. As a result, if you head over to the Steam page for the game now, you will simply be…