Retro Gaming News
About This Episode If you always know where your towel is, then you’re likely already a fan of the topic of this episode. His Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was required GenX reading, and his work is beloved by millions. In this Backtrack, we remember and celebrate English author, humorist, and screenwriter Douglas Adams!…
These things are like buses. Given that efforts to translate the Saturn title Princess Crown into English stalled for over a decade, there’s been a remarkable flurry of activity in this area in recent months. SamIAm and Cyber Warrior X – two hackers who joined forces to translate the game back in 2012 – have…
A PSP & Atari Jaguar port have also previously been announced. Neo Byte Force, the developer behind the run-and-gun action shooter Cyborg Force, is releasing a new arcade-style single-screen platformer called Captain Barrel, for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo AES/MVS, and Neo Geo CD (thanks @DanteMendes!). Physical versions of the…
Will have better audio, no slowdown and “additional elements”. Earthion is a new shmup for the Genesis / Mega Drive being developed by Yuzo Koshiro’s Ancient, and it’s coming out on the 16-bit system next year. It’s also due to launch on modern-day systems too, and we’ve just discovered that an arcade release is taking…
Better late than never, right? Songbird Productions has recently announced that it will be publishing a brand new Atari Jaguar port of the Atari ST racer Vroom next year (thanks Retro News!). Vroom, for those unfamiliar, is a Formula 1-style racing game that initially began life in 1986 as an attempt by its creator Daniel…
Introduction Gaming has always been a way to show off skill and dedication, different games have different ways to test a player’s limits and speedrunning has always been the ultimate test of gaming skills. It started with platformers like: Super Mario 64, Sonic series or Adventure games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time….
RIKI 8Bit GAME Collection Arrives on Nintendo® Switch™ This December! Take a Blast from The Past with a Collection of Five Retro Inspired Games and Music Albums by Legendary Manga Artist RIKI! Karlstad, Sweden – Clear River Games, a video game publisher specialising in classic and retro games, in conjunction with Japanese publisher City Connection, announced today that RIKI 8Bit GAME…
It’s a bit strange to think of Madden Football in retro terms. Yes, the franchise dates to the eighties- but it still exists today, debatably as the most popular video game of our era, just not one we generally describe as a part of video game culture because, well, it’s football. And Electronic Arts…
Indiana Jones & The Iron Phoenix was in development at LucasArts between 1993 to 1994. When it comes to the history of Lucasfilm Games and LucasArts, there is no shortage of compelling “What ifs”, with the studio having a veritable graveyard of projects that were killed before they had a chance to reach the market….
“Obviously generated by an AI”. System 3 has revealed that it will publish a 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Archer Maclean title DropZone on Steam, Switch, PS5, and Xbox next month. “On November 27th 1984, DropZone, the legendary Defender-style game from Archer Maclean, first took flight, captivating players across the globe,” says the game’s Steam…