Retro Gaming News
There’s no word yet on a Western release. M2’s enhanced Mega Drive port of the Taito shoot ’em up Darius has just dropped on the Nintendo Switch eShop & PlayStation store in Japan pretty much out of nowhere. If you remember correctly, the first Darius game wasn’t originally released for the Sega Mega Drive. However,…
Keith Christensen grew up in Houston playing pinball and video games at local arcades like Good Time Charlie’s and Gold Mine. As a young adult, he enjoyed hosting house parties to share his extensive collection of games with friends. In 2002, he moved the party to Fitzgerald’s, a local music club, where the foundation was…
“We were flying by the seat of our pants”. When it comes to the Nintendo 64 and first-person shooters, there are two titles that have become synonymous with the genre: GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. While these classics rightfully deserve their place among the greats, the Turok series has largely fallen into obscurity, which is…
Another way to play this classic shmup! Released in Japan five years after Sega officially pulled support for the Sega Dreamcast, G-rev’s Under Defeat (a port of the 2005 arcade game of the same name) is a vertically scrolling shooter where players assume control of a technologically advanced helicopter and fight in World War II-style…
Some audiophiles swear by Sony’s little grey box. When the PlayStation 1 launched in the West in 1995, it not only provided players with hours upon hours of entertainment thanks to its library of impressive video games but also came with the ability to play CDs, giving fans yet another reason to love Sony’s little…
The Stern of the Union, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Check out October 2023’s edition here! Some highlights from this month include: Stranger Things Pinball Foo Fighters Final Battle Jurassic Park 30th Insider Connected Quest Stern Pro Circuit Championship Gameroom and Brewery of the Month https://sternpinball.com/2023/10/03/stern-of-the-union-address-october-2023/ …
Stands for “Multi Arcade and Retro System”. The arrival of powerful and capable FPGA-based retro gaming systems has given dedicated retro fans the ability to replicate the performance of classic systems as accurately as possible, with platforms such as MiSTer and Analogue Pocket offering the kind of accuracy that software emulation often lacks. However, as…
Sunsoft! Delphine! Piko! Sydney Hunter! The Evercade line continues to go from strength to strength, with new cartridges joining the ranks for play on both the Evercade VS and Evercade EXP. We’ve just taken receipt of four shiny new cartridges here at Time Extension and thought it only right that we give you a little…
Thanks to another heads up from a good friend of ours , we’ve been told that if you’re looking for something different to play on your C64, then make sure to check out la1n’s latest game preview of ‘TheHolyCube’; A game in which you need to grab all the circular colours to move on to…
It’s already been six years since Nintendo delivered the NES Classic Edition to the masses, causing an unexpected major market demand while creating a new niche in the process. They followed this up with the similarly successful Super NES Classic Edition a year later. Then poof. The company that created the stir in the first…