Retro Gaming News
Along with some odd AI-generated promotional images… Earlier this week, a new AYANEO handheld leaked called the Pocket Block. A Game Boy-shaped device powered by Google’s Android OS, it appears to be the company’s first attempt at creating a small-format vertical handheld, presumably aimed at the lower end of the market. Read the full article…
“A regional brand licensing agreement meant for the China market only”. A short while ago, eyebrows were raised when an $63 emulation handheld pre-loaded with ROMs appeared on AliExpress bearing Lenovo branding. The Hong Kong-based Lenovo is best known today as one of the world’s largest personal computer vendors, so it came as something of…
‘Air Man ga Taosenai’ was originally released in 2007. McDonald’s Japan is teasing a new video game-related collaboration coming to its stores, and this time it seems to be based on Capcom’s Mega Man series (h/t: Rockman Corner). Last year, as you may remember, Capcom teamed up with McDonald’s Japan on a collaboration that saw…
Are you ok? I’ll never forget the first time I saw the original Fatal Fury in the flesh. My dad used to own a chain of video rental stores, and one of them had a bunch of arcade cabinets installed, presumably to keep kids busy while their parents picked out a movie. These were a…
Earlier today, Stern Pinball formally announced through a video and a news release on its website that it has developed and is now selling a Transformer pinball table, specifically titled Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. This table is themed around the 1986 animated film, Transformers: The Movie, although it also utilizes story elements…
God bless Philip Summers. Artist Philip Summers has been creating his Hand-Drawn Game Guides for a while now, and, in this age of GenAI gobbling up all human art to spit out slop, they’re become a refreshing antidote. The only issue was the lack of an official license, which caused some problems. A while back,…
The FM Towns ‘eroge’ fighter now has more English text. Three years ago, Derek Pascarella released the first version of his English patch for the FM Towns eroge fighting game Ningyou Tsukai, better known in the West as Metal & Lace: The Battle of the Robo Babes. Pascarella has just announced that he has released…
Technōs Japan’s ‘Tag Team Wrestling’ is coming to modern consoles. A 1983 tag team wrestling game from Technōs Japan and Data East is making its way to consoles later this week, courtesy of Hamster’s Arcade Archives series. Tag Team Wrestling (also known as The Big Pro Wrestling! in Japan) hit the arcades in the early…
With online rankings! The Japanese independent developer BeXide today announced plans to port KAZe Co., Ltd.’s 1995 pinball classic, Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators, to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, and Mac later this year, with a new online ranking feature (h/t: 4Gamer/@denfaminicogame). Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators is one of many pinball simulators developed by KAZe…
The Commodore Amiga scene has received another hot news story with the first beta tease of a high-performance recreation of the arcade classic, Moon Cresta. Developed by Johnny Acevedo under the Amiten Games banner, this “from-scratch” build serves as a free tribute to the 1980s Nichibutsu original and a salute to François Lionet, the creator…