Retro News

How NewKidCo gambled it all on E.T. with disastrous results. If you have even a passing interest in video game history, you’ve probably heard the story of Atari’s disastrous E.T. adaptation, which saw unsold copies of the game being buried out in the New Mexico desert and blamed as one of the contributing factors to…

Physical releases to kick off 2024. Last year, Retro-Bit announced it was publishing licenced reissues of Hammerin’ Harry, Hammerin’ Harry 2, El Viento and Sol Deace – and we’ve been lucky enough to get sample copies of them. Released in Japanese arcades in 1990 as Daiku no Gen-san: Beranmechō Sōdōki, Hammerin’ Harry was ported to…

Hyperkin Announces Handheld Console Compatible With Genesis® and Mega Drive Cartridges January 12, 2024 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles-based video game hardware developer, Hyperkin, has announced they are developing a handheld console, the Mega 95, compatible with original Genesis® and Mega Drive cartridges. In the past decade, Hyperkin has released, to much acclaim, the SupaBoy…

“if we only had to send the data, distribution becomes much more doable”. If you’ve been checking the website regularly this week, you’ll know that we’ve been posting some previously unpublished (in English, at least) materials that we had translated while researching various topics related to Nintendo. Well, here’s another one that we had hiding…

“I think it’s the best-designed game we’ve ever made”. Ste and John Pickford have been making video games for decades, starting with humble home micros like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 before graduating to the NES and SNES as the ’90s dawned. Such was the prestigious talent of these skilful siblings that their company…

Let’s go away. Sega’s reputation in the world of arcade machines is almost unrivalled; while many of its competitors have fallen by the wayside over the years, the company continues to produce coin-op machines even in 2024 and has decades of glorious history behind it, stretching all the way back to the days before video…

Color me surprised. Remember a short while ago, we reported on an original monochrome Game Boy console being given a second lease of life as a car’s digital speedometer? Well, someone has gone one better than that, transforming the handheld’s successor, the Game Boy Color, into the same thing. Modder James McNichol – who runs…

Both collections will use Limited Run Games’ Carbon Engine. Konami and Limited Run Games have announced that they will be bringing out two new retro collections featuring games based on the Rocket Knight Adventures and Felix the Cat Series. Both collections will be brought to life using Limited Run Games’ Carbon Engine and will be…

Altec Lansing is releasing AI Shark this year. Video game cheat device brand GameShark is making a comeback, but not in the way you might expect. The brand is being licenced by audio electronics company Altec Lansing, which claims it is working on AI Shark, an AI-based cheat assistant for modern consoles. Read the full…