Retro Gaming News
Company needs to get the Mega95 out of the way first. Hyperkin isn’t the swiftest company when it comes to getting announced products out of the door, as we’ve recently seen with the Mega95 handheld. Revealed at the start of 2024, the portable Sega Genesis hadn’t been mentioned until last week, when Hyperkin admitted it…
Well this is brilliant news, as I found out yesterday by a good friend of ours that the 1986 Arcade game called ‘Jail Break’, which was also released on many different systems such as the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum, is coming to the Amiga as an arcade conversion/port by JOTD. The same developer who…
Coming 2026. When we reviewed the TrimUI Brick back in December 2024, we were impressed with the pocket-friendly emulation-based handheld, but had a couple of minor complaints. Among them was the lack of an analogue stick, which dampened the experience somewhat of playing N64 and Sega Dreamcast games on the handheld, and the size of…
Something happens after the first few hours of Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon that you won’t expect, especially if you haven’t played the series before- it becomes engrossingly fun. In spite of some control issues, a weak opening scene and at times awful writing, the game, in a John Hughes meets Little Rascals sort of way,…
‘Ghostship’ features support for 60+ FPS & custom textures. A new PC port of Super Mario 64 has just been released, giving players another way to experience the classic N64 title, with features that were not originally available in the console version. The port of the game, which is being dubbed Ghostship, is the work…
The only official port of 1984 classic is for the NES. When you’re discussing the birth of the modern fighting video game, then Konami’s 1984 coin-op Yie Ar Kung-Fu is likely to crop up fairly regularly. Alongside Data East’s Karate Champ – released in May of the same year, just a few months before Konami’s…
Mabonigi Magic Academy awaits! If you happen to love visual novels and checking out obscure PS2 titles, then we have some great news to share. Mabino×Style, a 2005 anime-style dating sim from the Japanese developer Kid, has just received a fan translation, making it available to play in English for the very first time (thanks…
“Toby Gard really didn’t want to alter Lara”. It’s not unusual for video games to be altered to appeal to audiences in other territories – look at how Kirby’s expression was tweaked for some of his North American adventures, for example. The process can work in the opposite direction, too – for example, the PS1/Saturn…
“I deliberately did a bad job because I didn’t want to be on a video game”. One of the biggest names in the ‘Big Beat’ revolution that swept global music charts in the late ’90s and early 2000s, Fatboy Slim – also known as Norman Cook – has recently sat down for a chat with…
It’s been claimed in the past that ‘Tetris Attack’ almost became a Killer Instinct title. Back in the ’90s, it wasn’t uncommon for Japanese video games to be released overseas, sporting an entirely different title and brand-new graphics, in an attempt to make them more appealing to Western audiences, for better or worse. One interesting…