Retro Gaming News
But there are some doubters… A hobbyist developer published a video on Monday (October 9th), which appears to show a prototype of Metal Gear Solid up and running on a Sega Saturn (thanks SegaSaturnShiro!). The unlisted video by the French modder Frogbull shows a Sega Saturn boot-up screen, before displaying logos for both Konami and…
When the going gets Tuff… Back in the ’90s, you may have read about a Super Nintendo platformer called Mr. Tuff from the developer Sales Curve Interactive (SCI) and the publisher Ocean Software. It was reviewed in a bunch of magazines throughout 1995 like Super Gamer and Game Fan, but was oddly cancelled at the…
HDMI! LAN ports! Optical audio! The original Xbox was a groundbreaking system in so many ways. It arguably popularised the idea of building a home console from PC components (a trend which continues to this day) and it laid down the foundations for modern online gaming via its Xbox Live service. It’s also the machine…
Just as I was about to sit down and have dinner, another news story just broke which I just had to mention, and it’s a new level 2 demo for the Commodore Amiga game ‘Electroman’: An Alpha version of a game port that was originally released by Messrs, Janusz Pelc and Maciej Miąsik for the…
Developed by former Atari staffer, Jeff Milhorn. The unreleased Atari 8-bit game Psyclotron has been made available for download almost 40 years after it was abandoned. Developed by Jeff Milhorn, Psyclotron is heavily inspired by Robotron: 2084 and is unique in that it offers a simultaneous two-player mode – something that wasn’t all that common…
“Eventually, a good Bubsy game needs to be made”. Atari’s been splashing the cash recently, acquiring not just Nightdive Studios but also Moby Games and AtariAge. As part of this process of hoovering up assets, the company has also picked up the rights to hundreds of games from Micropose, Infogrames and Accolade – and Bubsy…
“Here it is anyway!”. Dreamcast hacker and translator Derek Pascarella has just released an English language patch for Triangle Service’s shmup, Trizeal. Published on the Dreamcast in 2005, Trizeal is one of the last games to be officially released on the console. It was also published on the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Trizeal Remix was…
Any guesses? Hardware manufacturer Analogue has just teased something for next week. The maker of the Super Nt, Mega Sg and Analogue Pocket has posted on Twitter that it plans to make an announcement on Monday, October 16th. Read the full article on timeextension.com Any guesses? Hardware manufacturer Analogue has just teased something for next…
Works on Saturn and other systems. Retro-Bit has just revealed its Saturn Pro Controller, a new wireless pad which aims to be the only Saturn interface you’ll ever need. Boasting 2.4GHz wireless connectivity for low-latency input, the Saturn Pro Controller has dual analogue sticks which use Hall Effect technology to avoid drift. Read the full…
More than 30 years after release. Back in 1992, Game Freak – now most famous for developing the insanely popular Pokémon series of video games – produced an adaptation of Tatsuya Egawa’s million-selling manga Magical Taruruto for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan. Released exclusively in Japan in April of 1992, Magical Taruruto-kun was directed…