Retro Gaming News
Drop a quarter, get a game. Everyone within earshot knew exactly what that transaction meant. No subscription tier, no loot box probability table, no auto-renewal buried in a terms and conditions update. The quarter-per-play model was the most transparent payment system the entertainment industry has ever produced, and we have spent the fifty years since…
“TAG TEAM WRESTLING” is an action game released by Technos Japan in 1983. Enjoy the world of professional wrestling as you control the hero wrestler and aim to become world champion. Quick move selection and the skillful tag team work unique to tag matches are the keys to victory! Sometimes brawls spill out of the…
Demake delight. In a brilliant act of ‘demake’ skill, homebrew coder Richter Wilker has taken Animal Crossing and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and turned them into Game Boy Color games. Animal Forest GB Folk features villages you can befriend, time-based events, festivals and mini-games, closely mimicking the gameplay of the full-fat series. You can…
“Our ambitions are as big as the Wii”. You might have heard of the Nex Playground if you have your ear to the ground on recent gaming hardware developments. Aimed at a family audience, this tiny device is all about controller-free motion-based gaming, and it has already sold over a million units since its launch…
We pity the fool who isn’t excited about this news. The modern-day Atari has done a commendable job of ensuring the company’s legacy remains relevant through a series of revived games and hardware releases, with the latter coming courtesy of partnerships with Retro Games Ltd and My Arcade. So far, we’ve seen systems like the…
Old poker games were great at explaining the rules, but weak when it came to showing uncertainty. They taught us how to calculate hand rankings and how a digital table flows. What they rarely captured was the invisible part of poker: the shifting story built from position, stack size, board texture, and opponent action. That…
The Amiga’s competitive football scene looks to be receiving a significant visual boost with the upcoming demo of a new graphics fix and restyle for the Amiga Competition Version of Kick Off 2. Developed by KONEY-SCANLINES, the project—titled Kick Off 2 CV—is based on the robust Amiga KO2CV v1.37 framework and aims to unify the…
Update: New footage shown with CD-DA audio. Not a week seems to pass without a new porting project for the Genesis / Mega Drive – R-Type, RoboCop, Final Fight, Symphony of the Night, Super Castlevania IV… the list is pretty incredible now. Another notable Castlevania also seems to be coming to Sega’s 16-bit system; werton…
“An all-new action platformer with dungeon exploration elements”. Nalua Studio is releasing a new Neo Geo game called Necro Pop, which has been “built from the ground up” for SNK’s classic system. Available for both the home (AES) and arcade (MVS) formats, Necro Pop is the second game from the studio for the console, following…
By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the first RTS. Both 1988’s Modem…