Retro Gaming News
Conduct Warning. QUByte Interactive has announced the Galeco Sports Collection, a compendium of five arcade titles from the former arcade developer’s coin-op catalogue. As the name suggests, all five games feature a different variation of sportsball, including vehicular sportsball. The first two titles are perhaps Gaelco’s best-remembered arcades: World Rally Championship (1993) and its sequel,…
“”Another great thing is the relative ease of producing new cartridges”. When two industry legends like Tony Warriner (Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword) and Stoo Cambridge (Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder) come together to create a new game, it pays to sit up and take notice – and that’s precisely what over 800 people did…
With “five brand-new investigation files”. Roughly 43 years after its original release for the PC-6001, Yuji Horii’s influential detective-based drama Portopia Serial Murder Case is getting a remake from the Japanese publisher G-Mode and room6 for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Steam. NEXT: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE was announced yesterday during the Japanese Nintendo…
‘A project for anyone who misses shelves of PC boxes’. As the latest initiative in its game preservation program, Good Old Games.com (GOG) has announced that select titles will now include 3D models of their original Big Box packaging, complete with full-size templates to print out and assemble at home. Working in collaboration with Benjamin…
Puts the ‘Shock’ in ‘100 Meg Shock’. Nalua Studio has released a Steam demo of its adorably creepy Neo Geo release, Necro Pop, which is currently in development for PlayStation, PC, Xbox, and Switch, as well as original Neo Geo AES and MVS hardware. Described as an “arcadevania”, Necro Pop follows the exploits of ghost…
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes is one of the greatest games of its genre, and as a longtime fan of superheroes and fighters, I love it. Some of my earliest comic- reading memories were at two of my cousins’ houses—one stocked with funny animal and cartoon titles, which were fine, and the…
Feelin’ Ikki. Veteran developer Sunsoft has announced a second compilation of the studio’s earliest releases. The wonderfully titled Sunsoft Is Back! Retro Game Selection 2 launches this December and includes four vintage titles pulled from the mid-1980s. First on deck is Super Arabian, a single-screen platformer released for the Famicom in 1983. Much like its…
Core replicates 99% of original hardware speed. While emulation is constantly pushing forward from generation to generation, there remain some aged outliers yet to be completely conquered. Notably, the 3D arcade scene of the 1990s, despite its vintage, is particularly problematic when it comes to emulation – typically due to the very specific, formative, rare,…
“There is little joy left in the industry”. Well, this wasn’t on my bingo card for this week. Out of the blue, yesterday, a user uploaded to the Internet Archive what appears to be a demo of the unreleased Rare title Project Dream for the SNES, the game that would later evolve into Banjo-Kazooie for…
Aliens: The Video Games An Unofficial Guide Author: Mike Diver Highlights Details every officially licensed Alien series video game – including Alien vs Predator titles – from early ’80s computer and console releases to cutting-edge virtual reality. Taps into the series’ cinematic and comic history to place games within timelines and provide a sense of…