Retro Gaming News
“Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply”. Here’s something that slipped through the cracks that people have literally been begging us to cover over the last few weeks. It appears the third game in Access Software’s Tex Murphy series, the 1994 FMV adventure game Under A Killing Moon, is…
Universal’s 1981 title ‘Lady Bug’ is also joining the Arcade Archives library. If you were hoping for Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, to follow up the Tekken announcement from last week with more Namco fighting games, like Soul Edge/Soul Blade or Tekken 2, then I’m afraid you’re unfortunately out of luck. Instead, it has…
When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced on May 8 its intention to sell its Atari division, Tramiel then began…
“One more analog stick. That’s all we needed”. Much has been written about why the PS Vita failed, with its high cost, lack of exclusives and pointless features being cited whenever the conversation comes around. What makes its commercial performance all the more puzzling is that its predecessor, the PSP, sold over 75 million units…
Tune in. Argonaut Games has just posted a little video on social media that has fans anticipating Croc 2’s inevitable remaster. The clip shows a radio in a Croc-style 3D world which is playing a bunch of songs from previous Argonaut titles, including Starglider, King Arthur’s World, Star Fox, Vortex, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos,…
Boasts higher frame rates, quality-of-life mods, & more! Originally released in 1999, Harvest Moon 64 (otherwise known as Bokujō Monogatari 2) was initially only available on the N64, but has since been brought to other platforms such as the Wii U (as part of the Virtual Console) and the Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2…
Thanks to NocturneRecomp. If you’re a fan of classic Metroidvania titles, then listen up – the Xbox Live Arcade version of Konami’s legendary Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has been statically recompiled by Marco Andronaco / birabittoh (thanks, Video Game Esoterica). Built on the ReXGlue SDK, this recompilation works on Windows and Linux and converts…
Thanks to Time Extension, we just found out about a new tv show? – channel who knows. And the youtube video doesn’t tell us much. Retro game marketing company Pixel Helix has announced a digital showcase celebrating retro games, which will air in August. Broadcast in the run-up to this year’s Gamescom event, Pixel Arcadia is billed as “an…
Players Are Looking for Challenge Without Frustration The best games need to balance challenge and accessibility; if a game is too easy, players get bored. If it is too difficult, they can become frustrated and disengage entirely. The entire debate on Elden Ring’s difficulty level is what led players to review-bomb the latest title for…
“Hi Sandy, hope you’re well”. John Romero, the co-founder of id Software, has responded to a recent social media post by Sandy Petersen, the DOOM, DOOM II, and Quake level designer, in which the latter criticised video game piracy for indirectly gutting id Software, claiming the situation with DOOM is a lot more “complicated” than…