Retro Gaming News
Available in “highly limited quantities”. The Analogue Pocket has become one of the most desirable retro gaming systems of the past few years, offering the ability to play both physical cartridges and ROMs via its OpenFPGA functionality. Analogue initially released the handheld in black and white, but it recently announced a special glow-in-the-dark variant, which…
Boasts a “Fully custom” design. The Game Boy modding scene has given us plenty of amazing advancements recently, including superior screens, rechargeable batteries and louder speakers. However, modder Chris Hackmann (also known as Froggo Customs on Etsy) has created something even more unique – the Frog Boy Color – which is a “fully custom Game…
The crossover that never was. A prototype of a racing game featuring both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon has been discovered on a hard drive which was once located inside an Xbox development system. The amazing discovery was made by Modern Vintage Gamer, a YouTuber who also happens to be the Carbon Engine Lead…
“”I always have to connect things back to the human experience”. The Silent Hill series has long been one of gaming’s horror greats, often bringing a subtle and mature approach to the genre thanks to its deep characterisation and mature themes. With Konami finally returning to the franchise after an extended hiatus, it’s a good…
What a melt. While it’s not an especially amazing game, ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut is one of the most desirable titles in the Nintendo 64 library purely due to its scarcity. An updated version of ClayFighter 63⅓, it didn’t get a general retail release and was instead sold as a Blockbuster Video rental exclusive. This has…
The Nintendo-published title was released in Japan in 2002. The Starfy series isn’t the best-known franchise that Nintendo has published in the past, with only one of its titles ever making it out to the West in 2008: The Legendary Starfy for Nintendo DS. Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped its main character, the friendly star-shaped prince…
“Myst was approachable; it felt real”. Cyan’s Myst, the game which, alongside The 7th Guest, is credited by many as kickstarting the CD-ROM revolution on computers, turns 30 today. The game launched on Mac on September 24th, 1993, and would come to PC the following March. It would later come to a wide range of…
“We were a casualty of our own success”. We’d be willing to bet that if you quizzed any games developer, they’d admit that pushing a system to its absolute limit is one of the most satisfying parts of the job. Taking a piece of hardware and making it do things it really shouldn’t be capable…
The collection includes four classic Telenet Japan games. Update : As spotted by Gosokkyu, the Telenet Shooting Collection has finally been released on the Nintendo Switch eShop as of yesterday in both North America and Europe (September 21st). The collection is priced at $44.99 on the North American eShop and £37.79 on the UK store,…
The one-room demo was made for N64brew Summer Game Jam. Here at Time Extension, we’ve been following James Lambert’s work for a while now, paying particular attention to his outstanding Portal 64 demake. But recently, the programmer blew our minds once again by showing off another one of his other projects: a small game jam…