Retro Gaming News
“It was him wanting our help to deal with whatever he was going through”. The late Satoru Iwata is famous for leading Nintendo through some of its most successful years, but a new interview has shed some light on the uncertainty of his earlier years at HAL Laboratory. Iwata joined HAL in 1980 as a…
“Because it was for Nintendo, we made everyone have water pistols”. Since its original debut on the Wii U in 2015, the Splatoon series has become one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, with countless players having fallen in love with its stylish and colourful vision of a world where evolved marine lifeforms duke it out…
“They wouldn’t release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name”. Those of you who followed the Japanese launch of Sony’s PlayStation back in 1994 will be aware that Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden Project was a very early release for the console. A two-game collection featuring Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993), it launched at the start of…
Localization legend Richard Honeywood talks us through his incredible game dev origin story. Richard Honeywood is a pretty famous figure when it comes to the world of video game localization, having many major achievements to his name. Not only was he responsible for establishing Square’s in-house localization department in the late ’90s at its Tokyo…
Will Maria Whittaker come out of retirement for the cover photo, though? With its gory visuals and “pornographic” advertising, Palace Software’s Barbarian is one of the most infamous 8-bit home computer releases of the 1980s. When it launched on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum in 1987, it was hit with a barrage…
Courtesy of D4 Enterprise’s ‘EGGCONSOLE’ series. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, is bringing two old MSX2 titles to the Nintendo Switch: Compile’s 1991 puzzler Wonderland of Carbuncle, and Sein Soft’s 1986 action RPG Super Tritorn. Wonderland of Carbuncle is out today (January 29th) on the Nintendo Switch eShop and…
The Fallen Angels / Daraku Tenshi has never been ported previously. The Polymega is getting two new collections, it has been revealed. Both are available for order from the Polymega web store. Polymega Collection 17: Gunbird leads with both of Psikyo’s Gunbird titles, but features seven additional titles. Read the full article on timeextension.com The…
Nebulus originally launched for the Commodore 64 & ZX Spectrum. John M. Phillips and Hewson Consultants’ tower-based platforming title Nebulus (otherwise known as Castelian, Kyorochan Land, Subline, and Tower Toppler) is getting a new cartridge release for the Game Boy Advance, courtesy of the publisher The Retro Room. Originally released in 1987 for the Commodore…
The software developer ran-j, also known as Ranieri, has been making rapid progress on their new project to recompile Playstation 2 games. The project, which not so recently ago may have seemed fanciful, has taken on exciting connotations for retro gaming hobbyists due to the recent spate of other high-quality recompilations. Last year saw…
For anyone who used to own a Nintendo Wii, it might be discomforting to think of it as a genuine retro console nowadays, as it probably only feels like yesterday that you were joyfully swinging around its Wiimote, but it’s actually been almost sixteen years since it launched. When it was released in November 2006,…