Retro Gaming News
The Bard’s Tale As I’ve spent the last 5 days sick as a dog, trying desperately to focus enough to accomplish even the most basic tasks, I’m taken back to my childhood in the ’80s. Back then, a sick day was a careful balancing act between not feeling well enough to go to school and…
The port is now in its “experimental” stages. A standalone VR port is currently being developed for the N64 first-person shooter Perfect Dark. The unofficial project is being developed by Alex Le Tux, who posted a video of their project over on YouTube a couple of days ago, and, according to the Twitter/X user Flat2VR,…
Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love! While Castlevania has had several 3D outings since the series began in 1987, it’s typically a lot more common today to see game developers drawing influence from the series’s 2D entries; games like the original Castlevania trilogy on the NES, Symphony of the Night, and the portable games…
New ‘Burai Complete Edition’ announced for Japan. The MSX2 version of River Hill Soft’s fantasy role-playing games Burai Joukan and Burai Gekan are being reissued on Nintendo Switch later this month, in Japan, as a part of a new “complete” edition, courtesy of Mebius and the game’s creator Takeo Iijima (h/t: 4Gamer!). As you may…
Rip and tear, old-school style. Evercade maker Blaze has announced it will bring the DOOM series to the platform this year. The teaser shown below doesn’t give much away, but it would be reasonable to expect a DOOM collection showcasing at least the first two titles, which were originally released on PC and console back…
Coming to Steam, Xbox, PS5, & Nintendo Switch. Studio Koba, the developer of Narita Boy, and Aeternum Game Studios, the studio behind Eden Genesis, are teaming up for a bizarre and frantic new run ‘n gun action shooter, inspired by LCD game systems (such as Nintendo’s line of Game & Watch handhelds). Future Knight was…
Prepare for “an explosive sense of speed!”. Taito’s OutRun-esque driving game Top Speed (otherwise known as Full Throttle in Japan) is set to make its debut on modern consoles tomorrow (February 5th, 2026), as part of Hamster Corporation’s ongoing Arcade Archives/Arcade Archives 2 series. Released in 1987, Top Speed was created by a team inside…
The Sega Saturn was an oddball console to say the least, but nonetheless, it had some fantastic games. Titles like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Virtua Fighter 2, and Radiant Silver Gun offered exciting visuals and gameplay, just to name a few. For me, though, there’s one Saturn game that’s always stood out above the rest: Guardian…
Although it’s rare, there are occasions when we miss out on the latest Amiga releases, which is usually because we don’t get the news sent to us, or it involves a lot more than delving into the depths of a hard forum discussion. Well thankfully one of our readers has sent us a number of…
Featuring “high school (equivalent) FMVs” & a “realistic story”. If you happen to be like us and have a fondness for ’80s and ’90s action films and political thrillers, you’ll likely be just about as excited as we are about Ultra CDG’s new upcoming first-person shooter, Washington Prime. Developed in GZDoom, a fork of the…