Retro News

And Fighting Vipers 2, too! Update : Sega has shown off the bonus games featured in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name in a new video: Original Story : Sega’s Daytona USA is one of the most successful arcade machines of all time, and it’s not uncommon to spot units in…

“We are on track”. All outstanding pre-orders for the all-in-one retro gaming system Polymega will be shipped to customers this year, claims manufacturer Playmaji. Originally announced in 2017, the system has had a particularly troubled route to market. Pre-orders opened in 2018, and we were lucky enough to have been sent a review unit in…

“Think of them as additional mods to complement the base game”. Ghostbusters – Special Edition, the amazing hack of Compile’s 1990 Ghostbusters game on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, has been updated to version 1.2b, adding in “optional patches” which “complement the base game.” “Included three special new costume colors to replace Pink,” says…

“My illustrations are in the game!”. A character designer who worked on several games in Square Enix’s SaGa series has dropped a pretty massive hint that we’re going to get a re-release of SaGa Frontier 2 in 2024 (thanks, @Renka_schedule). Tomomi Kobayashi, who worked on both SaGa Frontier and SaGa Frontier 2, published a post…

Released in the early 1980s, “Boulder Dash” is a classic action-puzzle game that found its way to various platforms, including the MSX. Developed by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray and initially published by First Star Software, this game quickly became an iconic title known for its combination of strategy, problem-solving, and arcade action. Graphics: Given…

Coming 2024 to your Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Color has received a ton of excellent homebrew games over the years, and Dracula: Dark Reign looks to be another to add to that growing pile. Developed by Spacebot Interactive and published by incube8 Games (the duo behind the Game Boy Color RPG Dragonyhm), the…

“Everything EAD made had to be completely fresh and new”. Giles Goddard has had quite the career. The British game developer got his start in the late 1980s at the London studio Argonaut Software, before receiving the incredible opportunity to travel to Japan (while still a teenager) to work with Nintendo on the original Star…

Gone But Not Forgotten. Imagine it – you are the representative rights holder to some obscure dusty old video game system that, for whatever reason, failed to hold its own during its original console generation, tumbling deep into the abyss of eBay obscurity. Until recently, that was the fate of dozens of systems.  Only video…

Middlebridge needs you! The MSX standard of home computers has had something of a resurgence of late, thanks to the announcement that new hardware is on the way. This should lead to an influx of fresh software, but on a very limited level, that’s been the case for some time, thanks to the efforts of…