Retro Gaming News
Updated rosters! Gameplay tweaks! And graphical enhancements! EA Sports NHL ’94 is often considered to be one of the best hockey games of all time, so it should probably come as no surprise then, that there is still a tremendous community out there dedicated to updating the game, with new players, tweaks, and bug fixes…
Join GenXGrownUp for 24 Days of Pac-Man all through the month of December! GenXGrownUp.com/PacMan24 Each day leading up to Christmas, GenXGrownUp is releasing a new short video featuring a different Pac-Man collectible. It may be modern or vintage – rare or common; you just won’t know until you click and watch! Join us in ringing…
Includes homebrews, prototypes, and more! Later today, at 2 pm GMT, the publisher Atari and developer Digital Eclipse are adding 12 new titles to their interactive documentary Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration in a brand new free update to celebrate the holiday season. The collection (which was launched last year across Nintendo Switch, Xbox One…
‘Eclipse’ eventually morphed into the 1992 space shooter ‘X’. The Video Game History Foundation revealed yesterday in a blog post on its website that it had managed to find and preserve Argonaut’s legendary Game Boy demo Eclipse, which is credited with selling 3D to Nintendo and ultimately led to the creation of the 1992 Japan-exclusive…
“We’re going to have to have a press announcement. We’re going to have to apologize”. On January 14th, 1999, members of the Tiger Woods ’99 team turned up to work at Electronic Arts’ Redwood studio and were confronted with some surprising news. Reports had started circulating the office that somebody had called into a radio…
The inside story of Atari’s battle with Nintendo. We recently had the extraordinary good fortune to sit down recently for a chat with video game industry veteran Lawrence Siegel to discuss his amazing career and his fascinating battle with Nintendo during his tenure at Atari. Siegel oversaw the release of the Atari Lynx, a powerful…
The “Ghost Boy” was a concept that sadly never made it to the screen. Last year, Christian Pearce, a senior concept artist at Weta Workshop, released a bunch of the concept art that he had created for 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. This included a fascinating glimpse at an unused, alternative spin on the Ghostbusters’ PKE…
“I can only reveal this much for now”. Chinese firm Aya Neo has really shaken things up in the portable hardware space via its range of powerful handheld PCs, but the company is branching out with its range of retro-inspired products – the first of which, the AM01, is a mini PC with a case…
“It was all about saving six cents. It was not about the big picture”. In the late 80s and early 90s, Lawrence Siegel had the unenviable task of turbo-charging Atari’s software development, at a time when Nintendo had a monopoly on the market. Siegel was a veteran of the games industry, having started his career…
This ain’t no gimmick. Japanese company Sunsoft was a pretty big deal back in the 8 and 16-bit days, publishing many popular titles across the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. However, it was one of those firms that struggled to transition into the world of 32- and 64-bit gaming, a…