Retro Gaming News
It shows the game back when it originally featured a jet instead of a human. Sega’s iconic 1985 arcade rail shooter Space Harrier is known today for its science-fiction and fantasy-like elements, including flying dragons, one-eyed mammoths, and giant robots, but that wasn’t always the plan for the title during its development. As some of…
The year GTA V first released… Back in 2013, the world was bracing itself for the arrival of the shiny new Xbox One and PS4. Sony and Microsoft’s previous consoles, the Xbox 360 and PS3, had been massively successful and, along with the Nintendo Wii, had found a way into millions of homes all over…
Stick it to me. We’ve only just reviewed the Game Boy-like Anbernic $70 RG35XX Plus and found it to be a welcome upgrade to the original RG35XX, which launched earlier this year. However, Anbernic is a company which doesn’t rest on its laurels, and it has just announced a new variant of the RG35XX (thanks,…
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. No matter how many years pass between the release of a game, there’s always a chance that some new information might be revealed – and that’s precisely what has happened in the case of Argonaut’s 2000 PlayStation release, Alien Resurrection. Based on the 1997 movie of the same name (its…
Half the price, almost as nice? There’s been a lot of chatter recently regarding the $750 RetroTINK 4K, a new-generation analogue-to-digital upscaling device designed around 4K TVs. As the apex of the RetroTINK line of upscalers, the RetroTINK 4K is, by all accounts, an amazing piece of kit (we sadly haven’t had the pleasure of…
A new remastered app is expected to launch next Spring. Earlier today, Capcom announced that it will officially be delisting the 2010 iOS port of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective in preparation for the release of a new app in 2024 based on the current remaster available for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and Steam. Released…
So far, it has released three games on the platform with more to come. Over the last few months, D4 Enterprise has been releasing a bunch of classic PC-88 games on Nintendo Switch across multiple regions as part of its EGG Console label, and it is now asking Japanese players what other titles they would…
Vote to help build our ‘Best Evercade Games’ list! The Evercade family of systems has been around since 2020, and has successfully reconnected players all over the world with classic titles in physical form. Thanks to its selection of curated cartridges, Evercade has delivered hundreds of titles to a receptive audience, celebrating the back catalogues…
Are you going to argue with Lemmy? Video game historian and regular Time Extension contributor Damiano Gerli has unearthed a clip from Italian television which shows the late, great Motörhead frontman Lemmy (real name: Ian Fraser Kilmister) being interviewed inside the band’s tour bus – which contained a TV playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The…
Update: Confirmed for PC. Update : Cyan Worlds has released the full title for its upcoming Riven remake (thanks, Gematsu), along with some screenshots. It will be known as Riven: New Discoveries from the Lost D’ni Empire. It’s coming to PC via Steam and GOG, but we still don’t have a release date. Read the…