Retro Gaming News
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Venom: When the legendary Mark Tremonti expressed his desire to be part of an exciting new Stern pinball, there was no doubt in our minds—it had to be Venom! Dive…
An unorthodox radio station, exclusive games, and a bitter breakup. Few aspects of Nintendo’s history are as fascinating to us as the Nintendo Satellaview. Nintendo R&D2 designed the Japanese-exclusive Super Nintendo add-on back in the mid-’90s, with the device allowing users to download video games and other services via a satellite connection. It came about…
A rare peek behind the curtain! Few companies have produced as many “arcade hits” as the video game giant Konami. The Japanese developer and publisher — founded all the way back in 1969 as a jukebox repair business — is behind some of the most beloved arcade titles: from puzzle-action games like Frogger to a…
Colour me surprised. How do you follow up on one of the most successful consumer products of all time? Well, if you’re Nintendo, you add a splash of colour. The Game Boy was a critical and commercial smash hit when it arrived in 1989, and its longevity surprised many; after all, the monochrome handheld had…
“Machines were considered boys’ stuff and they wanted to bring girls in”. It’s hard to imagine a time before Barbie was a multi-media megastar, but at the start of the ’90s, she had only appeared in one game that had ultimately failed to live up to the expectations of its publisher, Epyx: Barbie (1984) for…
Updated with impressions of the N64 EM05 Ultra Module. Originally announced back in 2017 as the RetroBlox, Polymega has endured a fairly tumultuous journey to market. While the system’s objective has always been the same – to offer players the chance to access software for a wide range of cartridge and CD-based retro consoles in…
Want to get a more professional feel when playing with your favourite handhelds? Check out our list of the best controllers for Windows handhelds and get more precise with every shot, punch, goal, and drift-powered corner. I know what some of you are thinking; why would I want to use a controller with my handheld?…
…but not quite yet. Polymega’s N64 module allows users to install Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to their system, thanks to the N64’s Transfer Pak. The Transfer Pak was originally intended to allow connectivity between N64 and Game Boy software, but, when connected to a controller on the Polymega, it allows you to…
How Henk Rogers, the man who bought Tetris, introduced the RPG to Japan. On Wednesday, 10th February 1988, Japanese police arrested nearly four hundred schoolchildren involved in a mass breakout of truancy in what a National Police Agency spokesperson later described as “a national disgrace”. The absenteeism was inspired by a video game, Dragon Quest…
Monochrome marvels. Nintendo certainly isn’t short on hugely influential, million-selling pieces of hardware, but the original Game Boy is perhaps the first system produced by the Japanese giant that became a desirable, almost ubiquitous consumer product brand. There’s a well-known anecdote – which may or may not be apocryphal – that claims a high-ranking Sony…