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Series includes Fingers Keepers, Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer. David Jones has confirmed that he is working on a new entry in his beloved Magic Knight series, just in time for its 40th anniversary. “2025 will bring a new Magic Knight game,” he says on BlueSky. “The series stopped in 1987, and now, for the…
Positively sparkles. Earlier this year, Retro-Bit announced it was reissuing Jaleco’s Rod Land on NES and Game Boy – and now, those same carts are arriving in the hands of customers who pre-ordered them months ago. We were lucky enough to be sent some copies to show off here, and we’re pleased to report that…
As we said before in our previous announcement, AcidBottle is certainly no stranger to creating quality releases for the Amiga, the Arcade to Commodore Amiga game of Breakthru and Wonder Boy are just two of the ones that stand out on IndieRetroNews. Well here are with another AcidBottle news story! As thanks to a good…
A stone-cold stunner? Once upon a time, if you were truly serious about playing only the finest wrestling games, you simply had to own an N64. This was mainly due to the fact that AKI Corporation (known as syn Sophia these days) was involved in crafting some of the most beloved examples of the genre…
Noah’s Ark was “lost” for decades. While point-and-click adventures were pretty popular back in the 1990s, a few examples of the genre have been forgotten over time – none more so than Noah’s Ark, a Japanese PC / Mac title from 1995 published by NEC InterChannel. Only released in Japan, the existence of the game…
Was only ported to Master System and TG-16 back in the day. Irem’s 1988 scrolling fighter Vigilante is being ported to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, we’re pleased to report. The unofficial conversion is being handled by homebrew coder Fabrice Fernandez, and is shaping up very nicely, as you can see from the footage…
“Having real names provides evidence of what each person contributed to the game”. If you’re a keen follower of movies, video games and movies based on video games, then you’ll probably be quite excited about the third live-action Sonic movie, which is due to release next month. The original 2020 movie and its 2022 sequel…
Ships next month. Accessory maker 8BitDo is celebrating Saturn’s 30th anniversary in style with a new themed variant of its popular Retro Mechanical Keyboard. The keyboard has previously been available in NES and C64 colourways, but this new model pays tribute to Sega’s 32-bit system with a brand-new look. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
Titles were all intended for the Brazilian market. Sega’s Master System might have struggled to make itself known in North America and Japan, but in other parts of the world, it built up a huge fanbase. The United Kingdom was famously a Sega stronghold when the Master System was in its prime, and later, the…
The Atari VCS came out in early 2021 for most of its crowd-sourced backers; no… I’m not talking about the OG, The Darth Vader, The Heavy 6’er, the 2600, or whatever you call it. I’m talking about the Atari VCS 800 that was originally called AtariBoX. It was first announced in 2017. Initially, with a…