Retro Gaming News
Could this be the unlikeliest video game revival of 2026? If I were to mention the words “DRM-Free” and “preservation,” the first thing to spring to mind would likely be GOG, the digital storefront previously owned by the Polish company CD Projekt. It’s worth highlighting, though, that it isn’t the only company working hard to…
Hamster’s rerelease is sadly missing a full localisation, but help is at hand! When Hamster released Nippon Ichi Software’s PlayStation RPG Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure on Nintendo Switch 2 & PS5 last month as part of Console Archives, I had a feeling it would be only a matter of time before the sequel followed, and…
“We got source for these”. One of the more welcome pieces of news for retro gamers in 2026 was the announcement that Rare and Blaze are bringing Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie to the Evercade family of systems on a single cart, which launches in October. We’re already aware that this double pack goes way beyond being…
The fighting game genre dates back about five decades. It has been a major pillar in the gaming industry for much of that time. The genre is built on a simple premise: two opponents fight in close-quarter, one-on-on combat. They battle across (typically) best- of-three rounds until one emerges victorious. High-stakes combat and a unique…
Works on real hardware, too. Frogbull, the developer behind the unofficial tech demos of Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VII on Saturn, has just revealed their next project: Panzer Dragoon on Dreamcast. The developer has been decompiling the Saturn game over the past few months and is now ready to show off…
“Know the track, and attack!”. Since launching Ridge Racer as part of Arcade Archives & Arcade Archives 2 last year, Hamster has been on a run of bringing Namco’s System 22 games to modern platforms. Some of these have been fairly well known (such as Rave Racer and Aqua Jet), while others have been a…
Ninja Baseball League-Man is back! Chances are, if I asked people to name an Irem arcade game, their first thought wouldn’t be Ninja Baseball League-Man (otherwise known in the West as Ninja Baseball Bat Man). Designed as Irem’s answer to Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games, the game rather famously didn’t do too well…
A Design That Never Needed a Rewrite Charles Fey built the Liberty Bell in the back of his San Francisco workshop in 1895: three spinning reels, a handful of symbols, a single payline, and a mechanism simple enough to run on nothing but springs and gravity. According to Britannica’s history of the format, Fey’s design…
Once your classic cartridge collection reaches a certain size, you’ll discover you’re finding few new cartridges at thrift stores. In order to “get their fix,” so to speak, many collectors start collecting label variations to keep their number of “finds” up. “Label variations” simply means different types of labels on the same game. For Colecovision…
“All the living things in this world await your awakening”. Clever River Games appears to be teasing a re-release of Quintet’s SNES RPG Terranigma, which launched on the SNES back in 1995. Created by a team that includes Tomoyoshi Miyazaki (director, designer and writer), Kamui Fujiwara (artist) and Reiko Takebayashi (writer), Terranigma is part of…