Retro Gaming News
‘Memories of Firebird’ is available to preorder now. If you happened to be around in the days when microcomputers were king, you may be aware of Firebird Sofware. The British publisher was established in 1984 as a publishing arm of Telecomsoft and was responsible for releasing a bunch of classic games like Booty, Thrust, Elite,…
The game now runs in FastROM on the SNES. A fan developer has just completed the process of porting Kid Icarus from the NES to the SNES, paving the way for a number of possible quality-of-life improvements and technical enhancements. Inspired by the work of @Infidelity_NES (whose projects we’ve previously covered on this website), the…
…but the Genesis version has it! It never ceases to amaze us how, even when you’ve been gaming for decades and feel you have a pretty solid grasp on the history of interactive entertainment, there are facts that have somehow eluded you for over 30 years. Take YouTuber st1ka, for example; a seasoned retro gamer…
Pays tribute to Super Scaler games like Galaxy Force II & After Burner. Update #2 : A demo for Terarin Games’ Missile Dancer 2 has now been released on Steam, as spotted by Hardcore Gaming 101. So if you want to give it a go ahead of its release next year on Nintendo Switch and…
It’s (still) thinking. It brings us no joy whatsoever to report that Sega’s final throw of the home hardware dice celebrates its 25th anniversary today. We’re so old. Released in Japan on November 27th, 1998, Dreamcast was a forward-thinking system that Sega hoped would help reclaim the market share lost during the 32-bit battle with…
As we said before, while many of you have played Shadow Dancer on the Amiga, some of you felt while the game was fun, it was lacking in graphics, noting by many as having an Atari ST colour-palette and no Parallax. Well one such user is hoping to change that negative view, as msmalik681 has…
Via new “Online” update. 26 years ago, Sega released Virtua Fighter 3tb in arcades before porting it to the Sega Dreamcast. An iterative update of the original Virtua Fighter 3, it ‘borrowed’ the notion of three-on-three team battles from SNK’s King of Fighters and would go on to gain a new legion of fans. Now,…
Video Games — Auction Preview by Brett Weiss Sony’s original PlayStation is one of the greatest gaming consoles of all time. I love the system’s DualShock controller, evolutionary leaps forward in 3D gaming, and sleek CD format (compatibility with audio CDs was a nice bonus), which offered more memory than cartridges. Selling more than 100…
20% off all items in stock! Publisher Strictly Limited Games – which specialises in physical editions of games for both modern and retro systems – is having a warehouse clearance for Black Friday, offering 20% off all items currently in stock. While you might assume that Strictly Limited only deals in games for platforms like…
Modders do what Sega… don’t? If you know your Sega history, then you’ll be aware of the Neptune. A Genesis / Mega Drive fused with the Sega 32X, this all-in-one system was designed to be a low-cost alternative to the 32-bit Saturn, which launched at the end of 1994 in Japan. However, despite being shown…