Retro Gaming News
“The tools have been designed to be architecture abstract”. Blaze’s Evercade family of systems has played host to NES, Mega Drive, SNES, PlayStation, arcade and even Amiga games, but its upcoming Piko Interactive Collection 4 finally adds a format which people have been crying out for – Nintendo 64. The pack will include the N64…
The year was 1982. I went to Time Out, my local arcade, and there I found my cousin playing this new game where a cook had to make burgers while avoiding hot dogs, pickles, and other food items. That game was BurgerTime and I was immediately hooked! BurgerTime was first released in Japan under the…
The speedrunner SHiFT has set a new best time of 41m 59s. A new any% speedrun world record has just been set for the 2003 THQ platformer SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. The SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom speedrunner SHiFT set a new world record yesterday, achieving a time of 41 minutes 59…
Hokuto No Ken 3 was originally released in 1989. An exciting new fan translation patch has just been released for a Japan-exclusive Nintendo Famicom RPG based on the iconic manga and anime series Fist of the North Star. Hokuto No Ken 3: Shinseiki Souzou Seiken Retsuden was the third game for the Nintendo console to…
“They thought Nazis were an inherent part of that world”. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to Xbox this year, and has plenty of people excited about the famous explorer and his adventures – both cinematic and interactive. However, it’s also a game which also relies on the Nazis as enemies, and that’s…
“I wanted to focus on the characters as kids”. Killer Instinct 3 never happened, but if it had, it would have seen the main characters represented as younger versions of themselves, according to designer Kev Bayliss. Bayliss says the third game – following Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 / Gold – would have taken…
The disc is labelled v0.09. A rare prototype of the Phillips CD-i game Hotel Mario has just been discovered in a Goodwill store in the US, by a YouTuber and collector named GamePakRat. Hotel Mario, in case you’ve never heard of it, was a title for the Phillips CD-i — an early ’90s CD-based console…
Plane sailing. When Nintendo released the utterly brilliant WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! on the GBA back in 2003, it not only kickstarted a franchise which continues to this very day, but it also included a timesink that lived way beyond the lifespan of that particular game: Paper Plane. This unlockable minigame tasked you with guiding…
From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood. Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg’s first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (along with his writing partner Matthew Robbins), but he has also had a fairly lengthy career…
Two million points over the previous record. The world of ‘classic’ Tetris (the NES version, basically) has been chewing up column inches of late thanks to the news that the game has finally been “beaten” after 34 years. That feat was achieved by Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson, who managed to reach the game’s kill screen…