Retro Gaming News
Released in the early 1980s, “Boulder Dash” is a classic action-puzzle game that found its way to various platforms, including the MSX. Developed by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray and initially published by First Star Software, this game quickly became an iconic title known for its combination of strategy, problem-solving, and arcade action. Graphics: Given…
Coming 2024 to your Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Color has received a ton of excellent homebrew games over the years, and Dracula: Dark Reign looks to be another to add to that growing pile. Developed by Spacebot Interactive and published by incube8 Games (the duo behind the Game Boy Color RPG Dragonyhm), the…
“Everything EAD made had to be completely fresh and new”. Giles Goddard has had quite the career. The British game developer got his start in the late 1980s at the London studio Argonaut Software, before receiving the incredible opportunity to travel to Japan (while still a teenager) to work with Nintendo on the original Star…
Gone But Not Forgotten. Imagine it – you are the representative rights holder to some obscure dusty old video game system that, for whatever reason, failed to hold its own during its original console generation, tumbling deep into the abyss of eBay obscurity. Until recently, that was the fate of dozens of systems. Only video…
Middlebridge needs you! The MSX standard of home computers has had something of a resurgence of late, thanks to the announcement that new hardware is on the way. This should lead to an influx of fresh software, but on a very limited level, that’s been the case for some time, thanks to the efforts of…
Now available to buy on Catalog! This week has seen a bunch of great new games hit Playdate’s Catalog, with the standout for us being GlagStone — a new retro-style city-builder that sees players become mayor of a mysterious island and take care of the needs of its occupants in the aftermath of a devastating…
Another Amiga heads up and no it’s not related to Dread or Electroman :p, as we’ve recently been told by a good friend of ours, that Jotd’s work in progress Amiga remake of the 1982 game ‘Bagman’, can be downloaded from the main website below as a beta test. This game is a GPL remake…
“Creepy castles, unkind estates, and cursed digital architecture”. Fangamer and Lost in Cult have teamed up to create THE HORROR, a series of books which will examine “the foundational hits, cult classics, indie nightmares and obscure curiosities of gaming.” The first volume in the series is entitled MANSION, and is all about “creepy castles, unkind…
“A sort of ‘all-in-one’ cosmos where you feel comfortable as a video gamer”. Retroplace co-founder Christian Corre Let’s not mince words here; classic games are serious business. A few years ago, it was possible to make real bargains when hunting for games from bygone eras; nowadays, everyone and their dog seems to think that their…
1989 Space Harrier rival hits Arcade Archives. Namco’s 1989 arcade title Burning Force has been confirmed as the next entry in Hamster’s Arcade Archives range. Boasting similar gameplay to Sega’s Space Harrier, Burning Force places you in the role of Space Force cadet Hiromi Tengenji, who is tasked with taking down enemies on her fancy…