Retro Gaming News
Virtual insanity? What can be said about the Virtual Boy which hasn’t been said a million times already? Arguably Nintendo’s most high-profile commercial failure in the realm of video game hardware, this headache-inducing device is often blamed for the premature departure of the legendary Gunpei Yokoi from the company he helped build; rumour has it…
Hummer Team’s Mortal Kombat II originally launched in 1994. A popular NES bootleg of the arcade classic Mortal Kombat is set to get an overhaul, thanks to a group of homebrew developers. The project called Mortal Kombat Arkade Edition has been in development for a while already, but only recently came to our attention thanks…
The ultimate Ultima. One of the most famous Western RPG series of the ’80s and ’90s, Ultima is a franchise which means a great deal to players of a certain age. Since the release of the first game on the Apple II in 1981, millions of adventurers all over the world have been captivated by…
The best Atari Jaguar emulator just got even better. Ever since releasing the Atari Jaguar emulator BigPEmu last December, the programmer Rich Whitehouse has been hard at work adding a bunch of new features to the software to improve its capabilities. This includes introducing Jaguar CD support in V1.05, VR compatibility in V1.07, and networking…
Bitmap Books’ latest arrives this October. Bitmap Books has just revealed its next project, and it’s likely to be of interest to horror gaming fans. Ants To Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror “delves into the remarkable and long history of games that terrify and delight in equal measure,” according to the publisher. Read…
And you can help! Over the last decade or so, there have been a lot of new localizations of games that were previously unavailable and unreleased in the West. So much so, that it can be a little hard to keep tabs on them all. That’s why a Twitter user named Baust528 (who is also…
“Pokémon had hit our UK business quite hard”. If there are two brands in the world you’d assume would never be in direct competition with one another, it’s Pokémon and Warhammer. The former is a franchise about collecting and battling with a host of cute monsters, while the other is a series of D&D-style fantasy…
“Not even our colleagues knew what we were doing”. It’s hard to believe it now, but back in the early ‘90s, Nintendo was not the dominant force on UK shores. That accolade went to Sega, whose 8-bit Master System and 16-bit Mega Drive were the driving force behind the console revolution in that region of…
Are you not entertained? While you could cite the amazing success of the arcade Donkey Kong or the pocket-sized phenomenon of the Game & Watch series as two points in time when it became evident that Nintendo was something special, the arrival of the Famicom in 1983 is perhaps a more pivotal moment in the…
Update: Launches 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, & PC. Update (Fri 15th Sep, 2023 14:45 GMT): The publisher City Connection has announced that Granzella’s reboot of Jaleco’s Formation Z will be arriving on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) in 2024. The news came ahead of this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2023…