Retro Gaming News
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…
The soul still burns. One of the developers behind a forked version of the PS2 emulator PCSX2 has revealed that it will soon be possible to play SoulCalibur II’s arcade-only ‘Conquest Mode’ at home. The first public alpha build of PCSX2x6 will allow you to experience this mode for the first time outside of the…
That’s a D-pad! If you’ve been following events in the wild and wacky world of FPGA gaming, then you’ll be aware of the SuperStation One, a MiSTer FPGA-based creation of Sony’s 32-bit PlayStation console. While it’s compatible with a wide range of FPGA cores covering consoles, handhelds, computers and arcade games, the SuperStation One’s main…
“Experience the legendary Game Boy tale with a brand-new coat of paint”. We’ve already seen Kirby’s early Game Boy adventures get a fresh look thanks to the homebrew community, but now the pink menace is getting the enhancement treatment via a new PC port by Grape Garden Games and Team Starfall. “Experience the legendary Game…
“Story Kitchen came to this project with a deep passion for the IP”. A film based on the classic adventure game series Broken Sword is currently in development from Revolution Software, Story Kitchen, and the screenwriter behind Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Variety reports. Debuting in 1996 with the release of Broken…
Created by DC Studios as a pitch demo. A game preservation group has published footage of a Sega Rally prototype. Developed by DC Studios, the game was apparently created to pitch to Sega. Alongside the footage, Prototopia (formerly known as Obscure Gamers) has also shared footage of another pitch demo from the same studio which…
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took…
Coining it. Once upon a time, the arcade was where you went if you wanted to sample the very latest in video game technology and design, but those days are sadly long gone. Home gaming tech has surpassed arcades in processing power for decades, and the market for coin-ops has been shrinking with each passing…
Roll with it. RMG-K, a fork of the RMG Nintendo 64 emulator, has been updated to support rollback netcode (thanks, PC Gamer and Kotaku). In case you’re wondering what the fuss is about, rollback netcode is transformative for online play, as it predicts which inputs are likely to come next and “rolls back” should the…