Retro Gaming News
Here’s some more Atari XL/XE news to be featured on the site, as Saberman also let us know that another game entered into the ABBUC Software Contest 2023 was a rather interesting platform puzzle called ‘Time Wizard’. A game whereby you don’t just manipulate time to your advantage, but you must put a stop to those…
Former DMA Design staffer Steve Hammond spills the beans. Steve Hammond worked for DMA Design as a writer, amongst other things, whose credits include Hired Guns, Uniracers/Unirally and a brief stint on GTA, from which he is still recovering. After spending most of the 21st century in the aerospace industry, he is now a freelance…
The 1982 title was released in North America as Loco-Motion. Hamster announced yesterday that the 1982 puzzle game Guttang Gottong (also known as Loco-Motion and Crazy Train) will be this week’s Arcade Archive release (as reported by Famitsu). It launches today on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The game, in case you’re unfamiliar, sees players…
Trust the fungus! The Australian film distributor Umbrella Entertainment revealed yesterday on Twitter that it will be bringing out a new 4K release of the ’90s live-action Super Mario Bros. Movie and that pre-orders are now open from its website. Released in 1993, the live-action Super Mario film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo was…
But there are some doubters… A hobbyist developer published a video on Monday (October 9th), which appears to show a prototype of Metal Gear Solid up and running on a Sega Saturn (thanks SegaSaturnShiro!). The unlisted video by the French modder Frogbull shows a Sega Saturn boot-up screen, before displaying logos for both Konami and…
When the going gets Tuff… Back in the ’90s, you may have read about a Super Nintendo platformer called Mr. Tuff from the developer Sales Curve Interactive (SCI) and the publisher Ocean Software. It was reviewed in a bunch of magazines throughout 1995 like Super Gamer and Game Fan, but was oddly cancelled at the…
HDMI! LAN ports! Optical audio! The original Xbox was a groundbreaking system in so many ways. It arguably popularised the idea of building a home console from PC components (a trend which continues to this day) and it laid down the foundations for modern online gaming via its Xbox Live service. It’s also the machine…
Just as I was about to sit down and have dinner, another news story just broke which I just had to mention, and it’s a new level 2 demo for the Commodore Amiga game ‘Electroman’: An Alpha version of a game port that was originally released by Messrs, Janusz Pelc and Maciej Miąsik for the…
Developed by former Atari staffer, Jeff Milhorn. The unreleased Atari 8-bit game Psyclotron has been made available for download almost 40 years after it was abandoned. Developed by Jeff Milhorn, Psyclotron is heavily inspired by Robotron: 2084 and is unique in that it offers a simultaneous two-player mode – something that wasn’t all that common…
“Eventually, a good Bubsy game needs to be made”. Atari’s been splashing the cash recently, acquiring not just Nightdive Studios but also Moby Games and AtariAge. As part of this process of hoovering up assets, the company has also picked up the rights to hundreds of games from Micropose, Infogrames and Accolade – and Bubsy…