Retro Gaming News
You’ll need to play the demo to learn how to get it… Developer Goldlocke has just released a demo for their new SNES game, Dottie Flowers – but it won’t be getting a digital release. Instead, it’s going to be a physical-only product, and to learn how to get your hands on a copy, you’re…
Update: Port continues to shape up nicely. Update #2 : Here’s even more footage of Street Fighter Alpha / Zero running on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Update #1 : Davila Games has posted some new footage of their attempt to bring Street Fighter Alpha / Zero to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis….
The “true” kill screen has been reached. NES Tetris might be 35 years old this year, but it’s still a mainstay of the competitive Tetris scene, which has been surprisingly active over the past decade. This is because, during that time, new techniques were discovered that have allowed the world’s best Tetris players to set…
Yum! Once upon a time, Sony wasn’t the video game behemoth it is today – it was simply an electronics giant which eyed the video game industry with interest. To that end, it launched its own game publishing label – CSG Imagesoft, later Sony Imagesoft – in the late ’80s and planned to release three…
The game originally released in arcades back in 1986. Nichibutsu’s vertical action scroller Mighty Guy is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 tomorrow, Famitsu reports. Released back in the arcades in 1986, the game has been described online as a cross between Nichibutsu’s earlier title Ninja Emaki and Capcom’s vertical run-and-gun shooter Commando. Read the…
Get up close and personal. Resident Evil 2 is considered by many to be one of the high points of Capcom’s zombie-slaying franchise, and the recent remake went down a storm on modern systems. However, homebrew developer PerroAutonamo has taken a different route by reimagining the PS1 classic as a first-person shooter, complete with old-school…
Enhanced controls! Quick dash! Inventory customisation! The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is one of the best entries in the series, and has already benefitted from not one but two excellent updates – the Game Boy Color ‘DX‘ version and, more recently, the Switch remaster. However, there are some people who swear by the original…
Play your way. The technical whizzes over at Analogue bestowed a early Christmas gift on us with the long-awaited Analogue Pocket Update 2.0. This update brought with it a new CRT screen filter, just like the one that shipped with the Analogue Duo. Furthermore, it allows OpenFPGA cores to use display mode filters. This was…
“By the end of the process, I’m almost hallucinating with jet lag”. Sony had a record-breaking year in 1998, raking in over $51 billion in sales and operating revenue. Profits from television sales had spiked in 1997 and continued climbing. Having recently released such notable flops as The Cable Guy and Striptease, Sony’s movie studios…
“Q1 2024, on the Super Nintendo”. NES ROM hacker and port specialist @infidelity_nes has revealed his next project: bringing the original Mega Man to the SNES. This is the same hacker who ported Metroid from the NES to the SNES, with amazing results – so it bodes well for Mega Man fans. Read the full…