Retro Gaming News
God-tier. I can imagine that when the Super Famicom launched in Japan, titles like Super Mario World, F-Zero and Pilotwings were the ones that caught the vast majority of attention – and with good reason. Mario World was (and, in my opinion, still is) one of the best 2D platformers ever created, while F-Zero and…
“Studios [were] seeing what they [could] get away with”. Last year, we reported on the news that video game journalist and all-round good egg Mike Diver was writing a book about all of the lovely video games the Aliens film series has inspired. Fast forward to the present day, and said book – entitled Aliens:…
Which will you be playing? If you’ve been waiting patiently for another Namco System 22 title to come to Arcade Archives, then it appears you’re in luck. That’s because Hamster has just revealed that the next title being released will be Namco’s first-person/third-person vehicular combat game, Cyber Commando, which launched on the arcade hardware back…
“I think the guys from Plaion are going to give us more joy”. FPGA developer Jotego has already confirmed that he and Furrtek are involved with Plaion’s upcoming Neo Geo AES+, but he’s now spoken to Spanish YouTube channel Creativo en Japón about the project in a little more detail. Interestingly, Jotego compares the system…
We knew from the start, it would be a race. From the moment the first Commodore 64 Ultimate arrived, the community was going to find a way to give their Ultimate the C64C ‘Slimline’ treatment. We knew you wanted it. We were hoping we could beat you to it. But it’s only fitting the community…
“Elden Ring as it was originally intended… a 1989 Nintendo portable console”. Here’s a sentence we never expected to write: an Elden Ring fan has recently gone to the effort of creating a playable version of the From Software action RPG based on the Nintendo Game & Watch, and it’s available to download now, for…
“The short answer: your best bet at the moment is to pre-order at Amazon”. The reaction to the announcement of the Neo Geo AES+ has been pretty overwhelming, but potential North American buyers are finding that pre-ordering one is harder than it perhaps should be. This has led Plaion to issue a statement on social…
(In Japan, at least). Resident Evil turns 30 this year, and Capcom has been soliciting tributes from a wide range of industry veterans, including former Sony Computer Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida. In a brief video message celebrating the zombie-slaying franchise’s birthday, Yoshida reveals that the original game very nearly launched with green blood rather than…
Introduction Gaming didn’t explode overnight. It stretched, adapted, shifted shape over decades – sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once. What started as a niche hobby tied to blinking machines in noisy rooms is now a global industry worth billions. That part is obvious. What’s less obvious is how culture moved alongside technology. In practice, the…
Super Turrican (1993) & its Director’s Cut on a single cartridge. Factor 5’s famous run-and-gun shooter Super Turrican is being reissued on the Super Famicom in Japan in late July 2026, as recently revealed by the Japanese publisher, Columbus Circle. The rerelease was announced earlier today across Columbus Circle’s social media accounts and will reportedly…