Retro Gaming News
The Commodore 64 had an exceptionally long life. Introduced in 1982 and not officially discontinued until 1994, the intervening 12 years saw the release of upwards of 10,000 entertainment titles. While European C64 users saw releases right up to the very end, the North American market cooled off a bit sooner, with new releases tapering…
Getting presents nowadays isn’t what it used to be. Mostly because a lot of us retro gamers are now older. Some have families, jobs, responsibilities that take us away from our favorite pastime. Of course with jobs comes the money to buy games we always wanted sooner rather than later. Gone are the days where…
SimCity fans likely had a slightly better Christmas this week. An unreleased NES version has finally been unleashed onto the city-building enthusiast crowd. Many will be aware of the SNES SimCity variant, but did you know a similar NES version was also in the works? From what we know now, it was mostly complete too….
I CAN let you do that, Star Fox! Remember the Star Fox 64 recompilation project Starship? It launched at the close of 2024 and was developed by Sonic Dreamcaster / Alejandro Javier Asenjo Nitti and Lywx, and brought the classic N64 title to PC and beyond. Sonic Dreamcaster is back with a second recompilation project…
One good turn deserves 19 more . Tactical RPGs, or strategy RPGs, offer a completely different flavour of role-playing game, well-suited to those of us who like our RPGs to feel a little bit more like board games, or prefer games you can take your time over, with a nice cup of hot coffee in one…
Announcing Arcade Archives 500th Release Commemorative Title “SPACE INVADERS” HAMSTER Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) is happy to announce that “SPACE INVADERS” will be released for Nintendo SwitchTM, PlayStation®4, Nintendo SwitchTM 2, PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S, as “Arcade Archives 500th Release Commemorative Title”. The game will…
On December 23rd, Krikzz confirmed that the EverDrive GBA series now has a Pro version. The EverDrive Store of Krikzz has long had a reputation for excellent customizable flash cartridges. The recent Pro series of EverDrives has added new features to the cartridges such as menus and save states. The NES, SNES, Turbografx-16, and…
Another ZX Spectrum game worth checking out is the recent release of Jtpl’s fast-paced first-person action game for the classic ZX Spectrum 48K called ‘World of Spells’. A game that the creator says “you can watch in amazement as our silly rubber wonder pumps out a Wolfenstein 3D-like, full 360 freedom of movement action, with…
Paves the way for native ports to other platforms. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has been decompiled to its source code, as highlighted by Video Game Esoterica. Decompilation is the process of translating an executable file back into high-level source code, and it paves the way for recompiled, native ports to other systems –…
Retroid is the first to feel the pinch. In case you missed it, AI is apparently the big new thing in tech – despite not actually delivering much of worth so far, outside of deep fake scams, high energy bills, terrible adverts, poisoned water and some insanely bad hallucinations. The tech world remains utterly obsessed…