Retro Gaming News
“It was a nightmare”. It’s fair to say that Capcom’s Final Fight Revenge isn’t the franchise’s finest hour. Developed for Sega’s Titan arcade board and Saturn home console at the tail-end of the 1990s, it was created not in Japan but in the US by Capcom Digital Studios, an outfit that would later work on…
I had a feeling it wouldn’t be too long for another JOTD announcement, and thus here we are with a new Arcade to Amiga port that’s been released called ‘Mappy’. A side-scrolling platformer that was developed by Namco for the Japanese market in March 1983, and published in North America by Bally Midway in April…
Every ’90s kids dream. If you were a Pokémon-obsessed kid in the ’90s, there’s a good possibility that one of your biggest dreams growing up was to have your very own working Pokédex. Despite being a work of fiction, the device always looked so cool whenever it appeared in the anime, essentially acting as a…
“I tried to produce a high quality faithful translation”. Technosoft is famous for the Thunder Force series and titles like Hyper Duel and Herzog Zwei, but the company also dabbled in other genres – and its 1995 PS1 and Saturn pinball title, Kyuutenkai, is something of a hidden gem in its library. Also known as…
New large-scale mod announced, to give the classic game a “next-gen” face-lift. Following the disappointing cancellation of Ubisoft’s remake of Prince Of Persia earlier this year, fans of the series have announced their own project, aimed at giving the platformer, originally released for PC, Xbox, PS2, and GameCube, a modern-day facelift (h/t: GamesRadar!). Prince of…
When I think back to my original Nintendo Game Boy, I don’t just remember a piece of gaming hardware. I remember a specific time in my life, a season, a university campus, and a particular version of myself. The Machine I was at the University of Arizona in the fall of 1989 (Go Wildcats!),…
“More CPU cores, higher clock speeds, double the RAM, increased storage, quieter operation”. Polymega maker Playmaji has revealed that it is giving its modular emulation system an internal upgrade. “Over the past year, production has faced some well-known challenges,” says the official PR. “To address this, we’ve almost completely re-engineered the Polymega Base Unit with…
‘2ship2harkinian’ has landed on the PlayStation handheld. 2ship2harkinian, the unofficial native PC source port of the classic N64 game The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, is now playable on the PlayStation Vita, thanks to the developer, Rinnegatamante. The PS Vita port of the game was released in 1.0 earlier this week on April 12th, 2026,…
“THE SPIRIT OF CHAMPIONS RACES ON!!”. Another week has passed, which can only mean one thing. That’s right, another pair of retro releases will soon be hitting modern consoles, courtesy of Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives and Console Archives. Read the full article on timeextension.com “THE SPIRIT OF CHAMPIONS RACES ON!!”. Another week has…
I can still remember my Atari 800. The screen went that deep shade of blue, and the cursor appeared, waiting for me to type something… No joystick… No sprites… Just text. Then these words appeared: “You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a…