Retro Gaming News
PLAION is listed on now-deleted rating. A now-deleted ESRB rating has triggered hopes that we could be getting a new piece of Neo Geo hardware. The rating was posted by PLAION, the company which produces devices like The Spectrum, Intellivision Sprint, A500 Mini, Atari 7800+ and The C64 Mini systems. These are reproductions of the…
Retro enthusiasts and Amiga fans have a new reason to dust off their hardware. The Mainake Project has officially released Arkamiga, a brand-new Arkanoid-style action game developed specifically for the classic Commodore Amiga system. In fact rather than a WHDLOAD, the game has been released as a bootable ADF disk image, allowing players to jump…
“You can understand everything and start playing immediately”. We recently got the chance to sit down and chat with M2 Co., Ltd. CEO Naoki Horii to talk about the history of this company and the amazing work it does celebrating vintage titles. During the conversation, Horii touched upon the games he’d love to work on,…
“Everyone at M2 Co., Ltd. has a strong passion and love for classic games”. When it comes to retro game ports, M2 Co., Ltd. is a byword for unimpeachable quality, so it was great to catch up with Naoki Horii on how he founded the beloved game studio. M2 Co., Ltd. has been around since…
Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a minor 1970s video game hit in Japan that demonstrated how Western and…
Teases “old-school” challenge & plenty of throwables. The last year was a great one for fans of ’90s ninja-themed action games, with Game Kitchen’s excellent Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Lizardcube’s Shinobi: Art of Vengeance doing a superb job of paying tribute to their respective franchises. Interestingly, though, as we recently learned, these don’t seem to…
The Pocket Vert & Pocket S Mini to be impacted. Over the past couple of months, AYANEO revealed dramatic changes to its existing product line in the wake of rising storage component costs (including suspending pre-orders for the AYANEO Next 2 and teasing the end of the KONKR Pocket Fit 8 Elite), and it looks…
Playsoft have released a number of games over the years, from Blowsub on the Atari 5200, to the Atari 8bit hack of Donkey Kong by Darryl1970. Well it’s time for the Atari 5200 to get a new game announcement, as Playsoft has released the eagerly awaited high quality Mario styled platformer of ‘Wee Ninja’. A…
Katsuya Akitomo pitched the game to his bosses at Capcom. If you’re a fan of the Darkstalkers series and have ever been curious about how Capcom got the idea to make a fighting game themed around classic movie monsters, then you’re in luck. That’s because Katsuya Akitomo, the former Capcom developer credited with pitching the…
Grab the first episode of ‘BioMenace Remastered’ now for free. Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the Evercade family of consoles, revealed in a blog that it is making the first episode of BioMenace Remastered, “Dr. Mangle’s Lab,” free for all Evercade owners, with the full four-episode game set to appear on its next Indie Heroes…