Retro Gaming News
Nothing tests a collector’s patience quite like a cabinet that refuses to boot. The screen stays black, the coin mechanism clicks uselessly, and the cabinet sits there like an expensive piece of furniture rather than the working artifact it once was. Bringing these machines back from the dead isn’t magic — it’s methodical diagnosis paired…
Long before home consoles dominated living rooms, arcades were the proving ground for gaming’s most daring ideas. Cabinets built between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s often pushed hardware limits that home systems simply couldn’t match. Many of these machines never made the leap to consoles, yet their design fingerprints are still visible in modern…
Arrives digitally this week! A new Commodore 64 is launching later this week from the developers of Gremlin Graphics games like Bounder, Re-Bounder, Bulldog, Future Knight, and Skate Crazy. Thin Ice is expected to release tomorrow (Thursday, July 22nd) and is being developed by Christian Shrigley & Terry Lloyd, both of whom worked at Gremlin…
Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it is re-releasing its SupaBoy portable SNES clone in two new designs. Read the full article on timeextension.com Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it…
“Video games are now a huge global industry”. The UK’s National Videogame Museum is currently running a new event which opens up its gallery to players and fans via “a unique exhibition that puts personal videogame stories, memories andcollections”. ‘Together We Play’ kicked off on 18th July, and aims to celebrate “the communities, collections, friendships,…
“Help, my Sega Mega Drive is out of control!”. When you think “Sega” and “Rally”, you’re probably picturing in your head the amazing coin-op (and console) series which began life with one of 1995’s best racing games. However, French animator, painter and software developer Anaël Seghezzi has something a little different in mind when combining…
Featuring a 3.4-inch 720 X 480 display & no sticks. Anbernic has revealed the next in its line of GBA SP-inspired emulation handhelds. Back in 2024, Anbernic released the RG35XX SP, a Linux-based handheld we described at the time as a “superb GBA SP clone that’s worth every penny at $70.” This was then followed…
Arrives this week on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Namco’s rare arcade racer Armadillo Racing is coming to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S later this week, marking the first time it has ever been made available on consoles. And better yet, it appears the new…
“This is a complete fabrication”. FPGA developer blahm1d has just released an MiSTer FPGA core for Midway’s Wolf Unit arcade board – something that many assumed was impossible. NBA Hangtime and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 are currently playable via the core, but Pixel Cherry Ninja is reporting that the rest of the library will follow…
“Sonic The Hedgehog back in his prime”. Back in the 1990s, London’s SegaWorld resort was a video gamer’s dream – until the company had to close the Trocadero-based location in 1999. It would seem that this once-amazing place has a rather unusual fan in the form of alien warrior Count Binface, who, to those of…