Retro Gaming News
“To be clear, I’m not pissed at the developer”. Apple recently changed its App Store policies to allow retro gaming emulators to appear on its iOS devices, finally bringing the likes of the iPhone in line with Android handsets, which have been able to play emulators since day one. It didn’t take long for an…
Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace. Update: It seems Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar have now buried the hatchet and have moved on, which is great news: Original Story : It’s fair to say that Field-Programmable Gate Array chips have revolutionised the way we play retro games in the modern era….
In crafting this list, I’ve curated a selection of my personal favorites, encompassing both the expected and the more unconventional choices. As a non-traditional console gamer, my journey through the realm of video game titles has diverged from the mainstream, offering a unique perspective. Without adhering to a specific order, here are some standout titles…
Tilt and rumble. WarioWare: Twisted! may be the second game in the series, but Nintendo was already looking for ways to make it stand out from the crowd – and in this case, we got a special cartridge with a tilt sensor inside. This might seem fairly twee in an age where every device has…
Sega had many consoles over the years. Their first system, the SG-1000, was primarily sold in Japan. That was followed by the Sega Master System, which was sold world-wide. Both of those systems were 8-bit. Third time’s the charm, and next up came the first 16-bit system from Sega, known as Genesis in North America,…
“We didn’t want to do anything substandard”. Richard Jacques is a name that will need little introduction to any long-standing Sega fan. The Ivor Novello Award-winning, GRAMMY and BAFTA-nominated composer joined Sega Europe in the ’90s to work as the in-house composer, creating music for titles such as Sonic R, Shinobi X, Daytona USA: Championship…
This morning, Multimorphic sent out one of its great frequent company updates. It contained a lot of great information, like a schedule of where consumers can see and play its products at upcoming pinball shows (see below). For me, the biggest takeaway from the letter was that production of Multimorphic’s latest game / module, The…
Because why not, right? Modder insideGadgets has just produced a cartridge which allows you to control your Switch (and other Bluetooth devices) using a GBA. The GBA Bluetooth TX cart basically makes your GBA console behave as if it were an 8BitDo Zero 2 wireless controller, which means you can use it with your PC,…
The gloves are off. Piko Interactive, as we’ve mentioned in the past, is a company which acquires the IP of other firms – such as those which are no longer in business – and repackages them for re-release, either on their existing system or modern-day ones. We’ve already had three packs of Piko-owned games for…
40 years of Alan Sugar’s baby. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC home computer – and it almost slipped us by. Were it not for a tweet (spotted half a day after publication) by Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner, this momentous occasion might have gone unnoticed, at least by the Time Extension…