Retro Gaming News
Heavy metal. I’m a real sucker for a decent limited edition box set, but in the case of Capcom’s glorious mech-based one-on-one fighter Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness, I didn’t need tempting. The game itself was good enough for me to want to own it on its own merits back in the 1990s; the limited-edition goodies were…
While I agree with that, 2 years before Mortal Kombat hit the scene, there was a breakthrough game featuring live-motion capture. This game was Pit Fighter. An underrated game in my opinion, Pit Fighter captures the reality of fighting in a video game. I remember playing this game in the bowling alley I worked at…
And how success & money appeared to change everything. In the ’90s, there were few partnerships in gaming as iconic as the one that formed between the now-legendary arcade game Capcom and the famous US-based comic book publisher Marvel. But it appears, according to a former Capcom staff member, that this relationship didn’t get off…
“There was no such word as ‘localisation.’ They were just calling it ‘text translation.’”. If you happened to play a lot of Capcom games in the ’90s and early 2000s, there’s a high probability you may have seen Takuya “Tom” Shiraiwa’s name scroll across your screen at some point in the past. Though we’re willing…
Includes “tons of fixes and polish”. The 8BitMods VMU Pro is one of the best accessories we’ve seen released for the Dreamcast in a while, and it has just been blessed with what the company is calling its “biggest update yet.” VMU Pro OS v2.0.4 finally enables the VMUPro Store, which allows you to download…
“Please continue to support me”. The Castlevania series is home to some of the greatest video game music ever composed, and many of the franchise’s aural highlights can be attributed to Michiru Yamane. Yamane joined the series for the Mega Drive / Genesis title Castlevania: Bloodlines, but her crowning glory is arguably the amazing soundtrack…
“We were completely enamoured by One More Win”. Veteran game developer and journalist Andy Roberts has just launched Rocket Books, a new independent UK publishing house specialising in video game-related publications – and the company’s first release will be of particular interest to Ridge Racer fans. It’s reprinting the utterly superb One More Win (which…
“You cheated not only the game, but yourself”. Super Smash Bros. just got a native PC port, but the news hasn’t gone over all that well with many members of the retro community, thanks to the tools used to achieve it. TheWizWiki has been very open and transparent that the port is “100% Al-generated” and…
‘Beep Akihabara’ is getting ready to move to an undisclosed location. The popular game store Beep Akihabara is being forced to move this month because the building it has been based in for the past 10 years is scheduled for demolition. If you’ve been lucky enough in the past to visit Tokyo, Japan, in the…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with GRIDbeat! Creative Director Dan Kingdom, who discusses the process to make the game a reality and what it is like to work with Acclaim. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was GRIDbeat! born? Dan Kingdom: GRIDbeat! grew out of a very simple idea I had early in the pandemic. At…