Retro Gaming News
Over 400 pages of console history. It gives us immense pride to announce that we’re joining forces with the award-winning team at Lost in Cult to create The Console Chronicles, a new book which aims to celebrate the history of the home video game industry. At more than 400 pages, this book will not only…
“Every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional”. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Atari dumping millions of unsold games in the Alamogordo desert, New Mexico. In an event once considered little more than an urban myth, Atari drove several semi-trailer truckloads of unsold stock from its El Pasa storage facility to a…
“Expectation is so insane you can’t live up to it”. Given that the original Perfect Dark stands as Rare’s highest-rated game of all time, a follow-up was inevitable. The project began life on the GameCube (there was even a render of Joanna Dark in the tech demo reel at SpaceWorld 2000) before it was migrated…
The port is based on Megastyles’ 2022 C64 port. As reported by IndieRetroNews, The Parker Brothers’ 1982 adaptation of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back for the Intellivision and Atari 2600 has just received a rather unexpected and incredible-looking port for the Commodore Plus/4 (the home productivity computer released by Commodore International in 1984). The port…
Two surprising retro reissues are on the way! At the Tokyo Games Show 2023 (which took place between September 21 – 24 at the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan), Shinyuden and Ratalaika Games announced that it will be bringing the SNES racer Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Kon – Rider’s Spirits & the Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS…
Get that soldering iron ready. 4Layer Technologies – the same talented group which came up with the Forever Pak 64 – has just announced the Super GC+, a drop-in replacement RCB kit which allows you to use your SNES pads with the Nintendo GameCube. The kit consists of the GC+ 2.0 module, which allows button…
The collection came out for PS4 and Nintendo Switch earlier this year. Update : Ray’Z Arcade Chronology is now finally available on Steam (as of yesterday). You can purchase it now for £43.99 from this link. Are you going to pick it up? Let us know in the comments! Original Story : Taito has announced…
Available in “highly limited quantities”. The Analogue Pocket has become one of the most desirable retro gaming systems of the past few years, offering the ability to play both physical cartridges and ROMs via its OpenFPGA functionality. Analogue initially released the handheld in black and white, but it recently announced a special glow-in-the-dark variant, which…
Boasts a “Fully custom” design. The Game Boy modding scene has given us plenty of amazing advancements recently, including superior screens, rechargeable batteries and louder speakers. However, modder Chris Hackmann (also known as Froggo Customs on Etsy) has created something even more unique – the Frog Boy Color – which is a “fully custom Game…
The crossover that never was. A prototype of a racing game featuring both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon has been discovered on a hard drive which was once located inside an Xbox development system. The amazing discovery was made by Modern Vintage Gamer, a YouTuber who also happens to be the Carbon Engine Lead…