Retro Gaming News
And you can pre-order it now! The latest installment in Lost in Cult’s ongoing series of premium gaming journals ‘Lock-on’ is now accepting pre-orders online. ‘Lock-On Vol.006’ will feature over 400 pages of essays, concept galleries, and artwork and will pay tribute to the past, present, and future of gaming covering 65+ games and series…
But will it bring home the bacon? If you played a lot of PS1 games growing up, there’s a good chance you’ll have encountered Hogs of War. Developed by Infogrames Sheffield House (the studio formerly known as Gremlin Interactive), it was a silly turn-based 3D military strategy game that saw a group of anthropomorphic pigs…
New Retro Game Mechanics video explores SMB 3’s bonus games. If you’ve ever played Super Mario Bros. 3, you may remember its frustrating sliding puzzle, where you are tasked with matching three moving tiles in order to create a Star, Mushroom, or Fire Flower for the chance to win a set of bonus lives. While…
Courtesy of the modder 1VieRock. While Konami has been hard at work remastering Suikoden I & II for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows, it appears that one dedicated fan of the series has also been busy giving Suikoden III a bit of care and attention too, in the form of a new HD…
All we need now is some SG-1000 products too. Earlier this year, we told you about the fashion retailer Zara’s strange decision to start selling bumbags based on the Japanese variant of the Sega Saturn controller. Well now, it appears that the company is at it again, releasing an officially-licensed phone case that is modelled…
The game is being published by Mega Cat Studios. ZPF is a game we’ve known about for a while now. Its developer ZPF Team dropped the first teaser trailer for the new Mega Drive / Genesis shoot ’em up back in 2020, and ever since we’ve found ourselves following every update and appearance at livestream…
At Antstream we all have an emotional connection to the games we source and provide. We also have our favorite systems and often debate which was ‘the best’ of their respective eras. These fun and affectionate competitive discussions are all rooted in our experiences of gaming through our childhood and beyond. My first computer was…
Coming 2024. Analogue’s next console will be an FPGA “reimagining” of the Nintendo 64, it has been revealed. Like the company’s other products – such as the Super Nt and Mega Sg – the Analogue 3D will run physical cartridges and will boast 100% compatibility across the console’s entire regional library. Read the full article…
The ‘SCV’ was a console from the Japanese toymaker Epoch Co. Over the years, we’ve encountered a lot of different attempts to (unofficially) port The Legend of Zelda to systems outside of Nintendo’s consoles. However, it was only recently that we learned of an in-development port of the game for the Super Cassette Vision, an…
Explore the city of Seattle as everyone’s favourite radio therapist. A few years back the illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham (also known as @400facts) created some joke packaging and a logo design for a fictional game called Frasier Fantasy. The gag was simple, but effective, based on getting people to wonder what it would be like…