Retro Gaming News
The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online. A rare pre-Mike Tyson prototype of Nintendo’s 1987 NES title, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, has appeared online, giving “a basically unheard of” insight into the early development of a first-party Nintendo game, while stumping historians in the process. The NES prototype cartridge was shown off yesterday in a…
Features ‘Spica Adventure’ & ‘Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III’. Taito and ININ Games’ retro collection Parasol Superstars will finally launch digitally on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch next week (April 14th). As you may recall, the collection, which contains Spica Adventure and Parasol Stars: The Story of…
Most games are built to entertain. A select few are built to challenge the way you think, and those are the ones that tend to stay with you long after you put down the controller. Strategy-based games force you to process information under pressure, anticipate outcomes, manage resources, and make decisions with incomplete data. Research…
Baseball has always had a different kind of rhythm. It does not rush to keep your attention every second, and that is exactly why it works. The tension builds slowly, quietly, and sometimes a little awkwardly. Then one pitch lands in the wrong spot, one batter hangs around longer than expected, and the whole inning…
Includes a new title screen, redrawn sprites, and more. 40 years after its release, Sega’s 1985 Master System port of the arcade classic Hang-On has just received a brand-new “enhanced” version, courtesy of a fan patch, published late last month. The patch, which was developed by a three-person team, including chirinea (art, music, project direction),…
In 1979, Ken Williams was busy starting up his new business software company, On-Line Systems; years later, this company would be better known as Sierra Online. His wife, Roberta, had her own ambitions, often playing text adventure computer games like Colossal Cave or Voodoo Castle on their Apple II computer while raising her two young…
Goodbye Australia, hello Scotland! A new patch has just been released, giving players a way to unlock Neo Turf Masters‘ toughest course in the Neo Geo MVS/AES versions of the game. The 18-hole Scotland course was only available in the later Neo Geo CD release of the game, released in May 1996 (a few months…
Mamma Mia! Here’s something you don’t see every day: the Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros. running on the Sega Master System. For pretty obvious reasons (which we probably don’t need to go into), Mario’s original sidescrolling adventure was never officially ported to the Sega console back in the day. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
It’s time to show ‘Aretha’ a little respect! Edia, the Japanese company known for its retro compilations, is currently working on a new collection that brings together three Super Famicom RPGs from the Japanese publisher Yanoman Corporation. Aretha Collection 1993-1995 is being developed for PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch, and is set to include Aretha…
Here is a story about how I learned to code at age 13. How most of us learned. I was 13 in 1980. Back then, at home, our family had an Apple II Plus, but not a lot of software – especially we had very few games to play. But pretty much every computer had…