Retro Gaming News
I’m a huge top down racing fan, from games such as Micro Machines to Supercars and Indy Heat on the Amiga. Well here’s another top down racing game you might like to try that was recently updated for the Commodore Amiga, and it’s ‘Rally Cross 1.0’ via Ozzyboshi and team; A tiny racing game that…
Will be available on PlayStation Plus Premium. Game Arts’ epic RPG Grandia is coming to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 later this month on November 21st (thanks Gematsu!). The classic RPG was originally released on the Sega Saturn in Japan back in 1997, before being ported to the PlayStation 1 two years later. Read…
“We have to make the game without the movie”. Before he punched torpedoes in Fast and Furious movies, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was set to star in a movie adaptation of Midway’s then-recently rebooted Spy Hunter game series. As was the norm in the mid-2000s, a game adaptation of the movie (based on a game)…
Featuring insights from Gail Tilden, Scott Douwes, and Kim Logan. If you missed the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last month and the 35 Years of Nintendo Power Magazine panel, then we have some great news to share. The roughly 46-minute panel is now available to view on Art of Nintendo Power’s YouTube channel, letting you…
Out Run! Space Harrier! Virtua Fighter! Daytona USA 2! It’s fair to say that many people’s minds were blown when Yu Suzuki included fully playable arcade games in his Dreamcast magnum opus Shenmue, and while that series continues to this very day, the retro-gaming torch has passed to another Sega franchise: Yakuza (now known as…
It lives! Superhero movies appear to have hit a bump in the road of late, with Marvel struggling to maintain its cinematic universe and DC finding that nostalgia alone isn’t enough to turn films like The Flash into box office gold. The genre is still big business, however, and Sony – which owns the cinematic…
Available to preorder until December 15th. Atari earlier this month announced that it had partnered up with the ’80s fashion brand Members Only to bring out a modernized take on the classic Atari clubhouse jackets from the 1980s. This was a special collection of Atari jackets that were exclusively available to paying members of its…
‘Zophar’s Underworld’ went live for the first time in 1999. If you hung around on the internet in the mid-to-late ’90s and were a fan of retro gaming, there’s a good chance that you’ll have heard of Zophar’s Domain, one of the early online websites dedicated to providing information on how to relive classic gaming…
“Classic” Game Boy colours this time. The Analogue Pocket continues to be one of our most-played devices in the Time Extension office, thanks to the fact that it not only plays original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and GBA carts but also has a vast array of FPGA cores covering a wide range of consoles,…
Time to dust off those old carts. Originally released back in 1977, the Atari VCS (later known as the 2600) was a groundbreaking piece of consumer electronics. Sure, it wasn’t the first ‘game console’ to hit the market, but it was the first to find lasting commercial success; indeed, the name ‘Atari’ became synonymous with…