Retro Gaming News
Late last year, MetagameMike partnered with Broke Studio to release a physical edition of his platformer Kero Kero Cowboy, a Kickstarter project that saw completion in early 2025. The concept is pretty simple. The title character, Kero Kero, is an anthropomorphic frog in a Wild West setting hunting down five outlaws. The style is…
“Enhances detail and clarity”. Analogue has released 3DOS v1.5.0 for its FPGA-based N64 system, the Analogue 3D. The headline news about this update is the introduction of “Internal Graphical Upscaling” which, according to Analogue, “enhances detail and clarity while remaining faithful to the original hardware rendering process.” Read the full article on timeextension.com “Enhances detail…
You’ll need to use a nightly version of MesenCE, though. Following yesterday’s news that the original 1993 Star Fox has been updated to make use of the new Super FX 3 chip – created by Randy Linden for Limited Run’s 2026 update of DOOM on the SNES – we’re now hearing that the game’s 16-bit…
Attention, Cyber Troopers! While Armored Core is the analog side of mecha gaming, Virtual-On has always been its digital opposite. To explain why, it’s worth looking at its arcade heritage and how the games evolved over the years. Prior to Virtual-On, most mecha games tried to vaguely simulate how a mecha might be controlled. Virtual-On…
“Knowledge of the previous games is wholly unnecessary to enjoy the story”. The third game in Racjin and Square Enix’s trilogy of PS2 games based on the manga series Fullmetal Jacket has received an English fan translation, courtesy of the fan group Anime Game Translations. Fullmetal Alchemist 3: The Girl Who Succeeds God (otherwise known…
“The first static recompilation of a Wii game”. Last week brought the announcement of the “first static recompilation of a Wii game” — Mario Kart Wiicompiled — generating a lot of buzz and excitement across social media, as well as enthusiastic headlines across a ton of different gaming and tech websites. However, something worth noting…
“One of the best Gradius clones I’ve ever played”. Doujin shmup Spolous has a sequel, and it’s free to download. As spotted by Crypticus on social media, Spolous II is a side-scrolling 2.5D shooter with music by Naoya Kamisaka. The visuals hint at a fusion of Konami’s Gradius and Techno Soft’s Thunder Force, which is…
Quintet’s ‘Brightis’ has a fan translation, but, of course, there’s a catch. It seems to be an increasingly common thing in the retro space lately to see an exciting announcement, only to find out that there was some hidden catch that you weren’t originally aware of, hiding just a few clicks away. Case in point…
Is that a Game Boy in your pocket? The Game Boy Pocket turns 30 today. It launched in Japan on July 21th, 1996. It would arrive in the US on September 2nd, 1996. The first revision of Nintendo’s insanely successful Game Boy handheld, the Game Boy Pocket, launched months after Pocket Monster fever had gripped…
“Would there be any human soul in what was created?”. Indie developer Mauro Xavier made headlines a while back for his amazing unofficial port of Capcom’s Final Fight for the Mega Drive / Genesis before making waves of a different kind by revealing he was using GenAI to create the music for one of his…