Retro Gaming News
A light in the darkness. The Shining series may well be best known for its line of tactics RPGs, most notably the Shining Force sub-series, but the 35-year-old franchise actually started out as a first-person perspective dungeon crawler and went on to span many different sub-genres, making it one of the most diverse RPG series…
Bon appétit! Next week, D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, will release the action-RPG Super Cooks on Nintendo Switch, continuing its recent trend of reissuing some of the more obscure MSX2 titles from the original Puyo Puyo developer, Compile, on the popular Nintendo platform. Released in 1989, Super Cooks is…
Also works with Switch, Android, PC and Mac. The Evercade family of systems is getting its own wireless pad, it has been revealed. Due for release on September 28th, the Evercade Wireless Controller works with the VS/VS-R and Alpha systems, and boasts rapid fire and analogue sticks. It connects via a dongle, which can be…
Karthik Bala runs us through his early years in gaming. Karthik Bala originally got his start in gaming all the way back in the early ’90s, while still a teenager attending high school. As the story goes, he and his younger brother, Guha, were huge fans of the company, Access Software and their Tex Murphy…
Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It didn’t take us long to fall head over heels for Gun Nose, the upcoming robot mystery game from experienced pixel artist Addy Valentine; in fact, we’d argue it was pretty much love at first sight. The new “top-down action-mystery game” pretty much blew us away when it was announced earlier…
Hayaku! Island of Darkness is getting a prequel. It’s been a long time since we last checked in on Hayaku! Island of Darkness, the excellent-looking NES-inspired Steam game from the Argentine developer Pizia Studios — almost three years, in fact. And it looks like the project has made some incredible progress since then, judging by…
Gone but not forgotten. In case you hadn’t noticed, the world of physical video game retail – as in, games sold in boxes in brick-and-mortar stores – is on its knees at the moment, especially in the UK, where Time Extension is based. The country’s final specialist video game retailer, GAME, has just entered administration…
Launched in Japan back in 2021, and in North America in 2024. M2’s Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli has finally been given a North American release on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch, after launching in Japan back in 2021. The digital release includes Kyukyoku Tiger / Twin Cobra and Tiger-Heli. Puzzle title Teki-Paki is also…
We hope you like cyan and magenta. If you happen to have a special place in your heart for dungeon exploring, card-based mechanics, and CGA graphics, then you might want to keep an eye on Keepers of Vyrellia — the upcoming retro-themed deckbuilder from Argentine indie developer Ghost Pixel. Pitched to players as a “retro…
Titter. Remember the GameMT EX5, an emulation handheld which came with a performance dial on its front? Well, the company is back with another similarly-equipped device, but this time it has the kind of name that’s really going to make people sit up and take notice. Read the full article on timeextension.com Titter. Remember the…