Retro Gaming News
May 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Intellivision Entertainment LLC will rebrand and continue its business of developing and distributing the Amico brand game console with a license…
Just a quick note during the weekly Friday Knapp Arcade Happy Hour (TM) to let everyone know that in addition to the 344 pinball machines that I mentioned here earlier this morning, the Golden State Pinball Festical now has 4 more… 2 Stern Pinball John Wick Pros 2 Pedretti Gaming FunHouse Remakes, one Classic and…
Atari announced today that the company will become the publisher of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 developed by Frontier Developments plc. Released in 2004, the title is available on PC, Mac, iOS and Nintendo Switch. Atari is now the sole publisher of all major titles within the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise. “As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of…
Right from the word go, we were one of the first gaming websites to give you the heads up about TIGERSKUNK’s amazing Shoot ’em up of Inviyya; a game with amazing scrolling graphics, super action, great sound effects, and a real hark back to days of R-Type or Project-X. Well time has passed since its…
The awesome news just keeps on coming! As we’ve recently been contacted by a good friend of ours through Facebook, that the brilliant Arcade game of ‘Mikie’ by Konami, with 8bit versions by Imagine. Has been ported over the Atari XL/XE by Krzysztof “Vega” Góra, Michał “Miker” Szpilowski, and Krzysztof “Kaz” Ziembik. A game in which playing as…
Whoa, here’s an unexpected treat for a Friday afternoon. Right around noon Eastern time today, Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix shared a surprise teaser video on social media and YouTube that may possibly be hinting at the return of the iconic 1993 Midway’s classic arcade game NBA Jam. The teaser video itself is somewhat vague…
Pretty much every video game loving child of the eighties dreamed of being able to play every single Famicom game. Well, RndStranger (real name David Mathis) of YouTube actually went and did it, completing an exhaustive 1,041 episode series about every single Famicom title on YouTube. There are 1042 official Famicom cartridge releases despite…
May 18th, 2024 – We won’t slow down just yet – the ININ x TAITO partnership continues to heat up! ININ, in collaboration with TAITO, is thrilled to announce the third instalment in the TAITO Milestones series, made exclusively for the Nintendo Switch! TAITO Milestones 3 is set to release in Winter 2024, so retro gaming fans all around the world can…
Arcade Shooters we just love ’em! From Galaga to 1942, to Xenon and even Swiv. But there’s one Shoot ’em up that caught our eye this month, and that’s the latest release of ‘ Galastrad ‘ for the Amstrad CPC and GX4000. As in the words of the website “GAME RELEASE AVAILABLE. GALAGA-Like SHMUP Game…
Time marches on. Nintendo updated its Switch Online service this week to include three 1989 Game Boy games – Super Mario Land, Alleyway, and Baseball – but in Japan, an extra game was added to the service. Action-adventure title Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls) was developed…