Retro Gaming News
Behind the doors of an unassuming building hidden away in an industrial complex in the heart of Texas lies one of the most creative and revolutionary pinball companies around. If you are a pinball fan and have never heard of Multimorphic, you’re missing out on a whole new world of pinball possibilities and some of…
King’s Field inspired Hidetaka Miyazaki to create his ‘Souls’ series. Today marks the 30th birthday of King’s Field, a PlayStation title with an incredible legacy – and one which some Western players might be unaware of. In fact, most non-Japanese players might be more familiar with a single screenshot from the game which has, in…
Early footage and screens shown off. The developers behind the bullet hell shooter Good Knight are creating a spiritual successor to Namco’s Splatterhouse, reports West Mansion. There’s not much to go on at the moment outside of some screenshots and some early demo footage, but you can see the influence of Namco’s iconic horror franchise…
Bits and pieces. The N64 will soon turn 30, yet hackers and homebrew developers are still finding out new things about the hardware – and one esteemed member of that community, Kaze Emanuar, just dropped a bombshell: the N64 has access to more RAM than we previously thought. It’s long been believed that Nintendo’s 64-bit…
George Kitchen returns with another festive treat for Shenmue fans. Last year, George Kitchen released Dreams of Saturn — a new fangame for PC based on the classic Dreamcast title Shenmue just in time for Christmas. This game saw players take control of Ryo as he explored the neighbourhood of Dobuita to hunt down various…
Pigsy does it again. Pigsy is a name you might already be familiar with if you’re a Mega Drive / Genesis fan and you like fan-made ports. He’s currently working on bringing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to Sega’s 16-bit console but also has other projects on the go – including a conversion of GG…
I was born in 1981, the same year that Jump Man and Donkey Kong had everyone over a barrel and shortly after Pac-Man gave everyone a certain fever. Back then, video games as an entertainment medium were in their infant years and still just a curiosity to most. The multi-Billion-dollar (BIG B) industry it has…
“He made no more sense in Spanish than he did in English”. We hope you’ve been keeping tabs on the SuperSega saga, as it seems to get more outlandish and unbelievable with each passing week. An FPGA system which runs games from pretty much all of Sega’s consoles, SuperSega has been branded a scam by…
With the holidays approaching, everyone is focused on the new games we want, but in this special post, we detail games that deserve to be remembered. Endless Midnight: Zombie Swarm: Jordan Trudgett’s independent game on the 360 Live Arcade was from a different era. In 2011, it just felt like everyone was making their own…
John Szczepaniak’s Iberian quest. The Catalonian cultural tradition of the Caganer is celebrated by these odd littlesouvenirs After the success of my academic talk in Birmingham in May, Dr Victor Navarro Remesal invited me to give a guest lecture to his students at the TecnoCampus University in Mataró, Spain. The state of current games education…