Retro Gaming News
46Okumen has released its latest fan translation. A new English translation patch has just dropped for the PC-98 RPG Appare-den: Fukuryū no Shō, making the game significantly accessible for Western players. Released in 1995, Appareden: The Sacrosanct Dragon (as it is being translated here) is a top-down adventure from Technical Group Laboratory — a Japanese…
Fan-made port gets better with each update. Of the many community-made Mega Drive projects currently underway, Final Fight MD is one we’ve been following the longest. Mauro Xavier’s port is shaping up to be one of the best versions of Capcom’s legendary side-scrolling fighter, and already has elements that were missing from the SNES version—such…
Was originally made using Unity 5. Former Sonic Team boss Yuji Naka has announced an update for an eight-year-old smartphone title, Pirates of Coin. Developed by his Prope studio, the game is described as “the definitive version of the pusher-type coin game.” Naka says it was originally built in Unity 5. Read the full article…
At multiple points in her summary of the history of Animal Crossing, Kelsey Lewin discusses the seeming impossibility of marketing a game like this. She documents the first, almost entirely forgotten clip discussing the game at E3 2001, sandwiched between high profile titles like Super Smash Bros. Melee and Metroid Prime. See the clip…
As a football fan, you may fantasize about being able to play the game as skilled as your favorite player of all time. It is, however, nearly impossible to achieve unless you have a certain level of athleticism. A simulator game may answer if you want to do something but lack the necessary resources. While…
“More news will be issued later on”. The Paprium saga feels like a tale as old as time now. Initially available to pre-order back in 2017, this Genesis / Mega Drive side-scrolling beat ’em up took years to finish development, only to be released in very small numbers—certainly not enough to cover the pre-order campaign….
“It had been completely wiped from my memory”. Yuzo Koshiro has composed music for the likes of Streets of Rage, ActRaiser, Castlevania and Etrian Odyssey during his glittering career, as well as numerous other games. In fact, he’s been so prolific during the past few decades that he’s actually forgotten about some of the games…
The publisher has posted a new blog post, paying tribute to influential British developer. Team17 has paid tribute to its late co-founder Martyn Brown in a recent blog post over on its website. Martyn Brown passed away last December, aged 58, prompting an immediate outpouring of tributes from those who had grown up playing and…
The footage was shown as part of the company’s weekly livestream. The Japanese video game company Hamster showed off something truly remarkable yesterday on its weekly livestream. While advertising its recent emulation-based reissue of Namco’s 1988 arcade game Märchen Maze for PS4 and Nintendo Switch, it published some incredible never-before-seen footage of an early prototype…
Update: Pre-orders open now. Edia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta has teased another new retro project, this time based on Wolf Team’s “Anett and Earnest” trilogy. This series includes the Genesis game El Viento (1991) and the Sega CD titles Earnest Evans (1991) and Anett Futatabi (1993). Read…