Retro Gaming News
Time to get your guesses in now on what they are! Blaze Entertainment has released an updated roadmap for its Evercade line of consoles for 2024, and it looks like the company has some exciting plans for the rest of the year. The roadmap starts by highlighting the previously announced Piko Interactive Collection 2 and…
Update: Preorders are now live. Numskull has just announced that Taito’s Elevator Action and Zoo Keeper are joining its Quarter Arcades series, with pre-orders going live later this month. Both cabs will be available for £219.99 GBP / $249.99 USD / €249.99 EU. Early bird pricing is £199.99 / $229.99 / €229.99). Read the full…
The commemorative event will take place on May 18th. Hamster Corporation has announced that it will be holding a special event on May 18th, in Japan, to celebrate 10 years of Arcade Archives (thanks Famitsu!). Arcade Archives, in case you’re unaware, is a series of emulated reissues that started back in May 2014, with the…
Having owned every Final Fantasy up to this point, I didn’t want to miss this one. Sneaking food at work during the day, and ramen packets at night would allow a broke 19-year-old to buy this masterpiece. It was all worth it. Final Fantasy X took graphics, storytelling, and gameplay to a whole new level….
Alan-1 is collaborating with Atari on a new series of cabinets. Earlier this month, we shared the news that after 25 years away Atari was returning to the arcades with a bunch of new cabinets based off of its Atari Recharged series of games. Well, now we’ve finally got our first proper glimpse at what…
The tale of “Castlevania: The Bloodletting”. When Konami released Castlevania: Bloodlines on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, it marked the long-awaited debut of the franchise on Sega hardware. Saturn owners would later be treated to a port of Symphony of the Night, but had things gone a little differently, Sega fans would have had…
Two pads are better than one. Like many retro games, Zelda II has its fair share of bugs and glitches – one of which involves pressing left and right at the same time to dash through levels, including locked doors. This ‘acceleration’ glitch is detailed in this excellent video, but is practically impossible to do…
Arrives this Friday, March 29th. The Game Boy Advance classic F-Zero: Maximum Velocity will be hitting the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion service this Friday, March 29th, Nintendo has revealed via social media. F-Zero: Maximum Velocity was developed by the Nintendo subsidiary NDCube and was originally released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It…
“It’s a bit of a true crime story”. Two pallets of Playdates worth roughly $400,000 have vanished in Las Vegas and have yet to be recovered. That’s according to a recent GDC talk from Panic’s co-founder Cabel Sasser (as summarized by Game File). Sasser’s talk, which took place on Thursday, March 21st focused on Playdate’s…
“Race around coffee cups and jump off notepads”. Solo developer Jon Kristinsson has created what appears to be the perfect spiritual successor to Codemasters’ Micro Machines, and it’s called Tiny Tires. Taking a huge amount of inspiration from the original NES game, this Steam release has you racing miniature cars around a range of real-world…