Retro Gaming News
Featuring the first-ever mention of Vaults. Ever since setting up his YouTube channel “Cain on Games” back in April, the Fallout creator Tim Cain has been publishing daily videos about various topics related to his 40-year-plus career in the games industry. This inevitably includes a lot of never-before-heard stories about the making of Fallout, with…
New York City is the largest city in the United States. Its culture is far reaching and iconic, and as a result, it has been used as a setting in numerous videogames. The skyline was often used to represent the great city, as it was easily identifiable by the Statue of Liberty and the World…
Could this be the best way to experience the classic arcade simulator? Next year, a large transport museum called Yumenova is opening in the Japanese theme park of Hirosawa City in the Ibaraki prefecture, and among its many attractions looks to be something truly unique: the opportunity to play the 1996 arcade train simulator Densha…
Forerunner to the infamous ‘Knights of Xentar’. ELF Corporation’s erotic dungeon-crawling JRPG Dragon Knight II has been translated into English, 33 years after it launched exclusively in Japan. A sequel to the 1989 original, Dragon Knight II places you in the role of Takeru, a warrior who battles a series of girls who have been…
The port was developed by Infinity Co. Ltd. Looking Glass Technologies’ first-person action-adventure game System Shock is considered one of the most influential science-fiction games ever released in the West. But what you might know is that it also has a couple of compatible versions for Japanese computers. As far as we can tell from…
Thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. FPGA developer Jotego has just released a new OpenFPGA core as part of his Patreon. The ‘JTNINJA’ core makes Data East’s legendary Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja playable on the Analogue Pocket, alongside fellow Data East arcade title Heavy Barrel. Read the full article on timeextension.com Thanks to Jotego’s Patreon. FPGA…
And a certain half-vampire features in it… Netflix has confirmed what was already pretty apparent to those who made it to the end of Castlevania: Nocturne – we’re getting a second season. The first series went live recently and is loosely based on the video games Dracula X: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Symphony of…
“A Saturn port was long overdue”. It’s an often-overlooked fact that Tomb Raider came to Saturn before the PlayStation, and while Lara Croft would enjoy many more adventures on Sony’s hardware, one fan has ensured that the famous explorer has returned to Sega’s console, albeit in an unofficial capacity (thanks, segasaturnshiro.com). RetroRaiderJohn has ported Tomb…
We’ve been flooded with awesome news this week, from Forest of Illusion for the Commodore Amiga, to the overhauled Mario Bros on the Amstrad and Mickey and Donald G&W for the 48k. Well once again we are going back to the ZX Spectrum for some more gaming news, as thanks to Saberman contacting us recently, he has…
It’s all about the aspect ratio. There are a lot of things to love about the Analogue Pocket, but one of the things we really like is the perfectly square 1:1 aspect ratio screen, which is absolutely ideal for playing Game Boy games. A display with this kind of aspect ratio is a rare beast…