Retro Gaming News
“I always believed that games can record people’s life and spread love”. Losing a loved one is a hard experience and an event that everyone deals with in a different way. For developer Zhou Yichen, the best way to deal with that grief was to create a Game Boy title which pays tribute to his…
The Metroidvania is available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC. Elden Pixels, the developer of the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC Metroidvania Alwa’s Legacy, has expressed an interest in bringing the game to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis in a recent post on social media. Previously, the company has already created an 8-bit…
About This Episode We’re Generation X kids who grew up largely unsupervised and left to our own devices. That often resulted in “play” time being a bit rougher and more hazardous than those who grew up in later generations. In this Backtrack, we’re taking a stroll down memory lane littered with the most dangerous toys…
“For me, the real battle has just begun”. The quest to preserve and document the fascinating number of games produced for Japanese “keitai” feature phones is one we’ve been covering on this site for some time now, but one of the most epic endeavours in this field suddenly seems to be making better-than-expected progress. Like…
The Crush 40 musician Johnny Gioeli claims Sega has breached their initial agreement. The Crush 40 musician and vocalist Johnny Gioeli is suing Sega of America for breach of contract, due to its use of the Sonic Adventure 2 song Live and Learn in “at least 25 video games”, as reported by Polygon (and supported…
Tap away! The MiSTer FPGA community is constantly coming up with cool ways to expand the system, and that includes amazing stuff like the TapTo NFC loading system (now known as Zaparoo), which allows you to instantly boot up a ROM using NFC cards, very much like loading a cartridge. This system has recently been…
Mega Man IV gets the DX treatment. A brand new colourization hack has just been released for the Mega Man Game Boy title, Mega Man IV, allowing players to experience the classic Nintendo Game Boy title with a fresh lick of paint. The hack is the work of Marc Robledo, who previously created similar patches…
Team SAS was pulled due to issue with the PS2 version. Rage Software’s Team SAS was shaping up to be quite an exciting prospect back in the early ’90s. In development for Xbox and PS2, it was created with the input of grizzled SAS veteran Andy McNab, who even went as far as providing motion…
From the developer of ‘Hoonigans’ and ‘Nitro’. Shane McCafferty, the co-founder of the developer Rocketship Park and designer of the impressive Game Boy Color racing games Hoonigans and Nitro, is currently working on a promising new title for the classic Nintendo handheld that looks to be a randomly generated platformer similar in style to Mossmouth’s…
“Daphne had never been fulfilled until Mega Drive came”. Sega of Japan has announced that it is teaming up with clothing firm Geeks Rule to create a series of items which use “past advertising visuals”, one of which was featured in the pages of the British adult comic, Viz. The example shown features the “Daphne…