Retro Gaming News
In a exciting development for retro gaming enthusiasts, developer swapd0 who recently released the Atari Jaguar game called BurgerTom, has now unofficially released Classic Kong for the Atari Jaguar. This new homebrew project brings a faithful reimagining of the legendary Donkey Kong arcade experience to Atari’s 64-bit powerhouse, offering a polished way to experience a piece…
“Did the staff actually play these or what?”. Sega isn’t a company you could ever accuse of ignoring its past, and, despite a few bumps in the road (the most recent being the de-listing of many retro games from digital stores for no obvious reason), the Japanese veteran has always made sure its long-standing fans…
He died earlier this month. Yosuke Tamori, the creator of the PopoloCrois series, has passed away. He was aged 74. The news of his death was shared by the Japan Cartoonists Association on April 20th. He passed away on April 10th. This was subsequently confirmed on his official website. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
“Takes inspiration from some of the most successful gaming handhelds of the past”. Following its tease yesterday, Evercade maker Blaze has confirmed that it is teaming up with Retro Games Ltd to produce two new clamshell handhelds based on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. Entitled THEC64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld, each unit boasts…
‘Mega Man 2’ joins the My Play Watch line of digital watches. F84 Games, the creators of My Play Watch, and Capcom are teaming up to release the Mega Man: My Play Watch, a new digital gaming watch that offers a fresh way to experience the classic NES platformer, Mega Man 2. This isn’t the…
The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn’t realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium and later the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation, was one…
Every Boss Fight book tends to have a novel approach depending on the author, and Phillip J Reed is no different with his Resident Evil volume. In fact, his approach is distinctly unusual, with the praise for the originator of survival horror from 1996 veiled behind calling it a cheesy rip-off. Nevertheless, the story…
State Lines Shape What Players See Social casino platforms rarely present the same offers everywhere. A promotion that appears in one state may be hidden in another because operators have to align marketing, verification, and redemption rules with local law. Those differences are not cosmetic. They affect which games are shown, which bonuses are eligible,…
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet. A Toy That Felt Like…
Carts? Hardware? Or something else? Evercade maker Blaze has just posted a short teaser video on social media which asks a simple question – what if your favourite home computers of the ’80s were portable? The seconds-long video has been shared on both the Evercade and HyperMegaTech social channels and presents the aforementioned text in…