Retro Gaming News
“An unforgettable gaming journey”. Mexican studio Zeichi Games has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new Game Boy Color title called Cosmo Knight ZiON. Described as an “action-adventure game that fuses science fiction with engaging gameplay mechanics,” the player assumes the role of ZiON, “a valiant young warrior equipped with cosmic armor from Zack,…
“The first-ever Web3 gaming device”. For the vast majority of the world, the whole cryptocurrency craze came and went with very little fanfare, but there are still plenty of people out there who think it’s the future – and now, those same people have their very own Game Boy-style handheld. The BitBoy One (as spotted…
And you can download it today. Publisher Bitwave Games has been doing a sterling job of restoring some of Toaplan’s best titles, and this culminates in the fourth volume of titles, which includes Grind Stormer, Twin Hawk, Truxton 2 and Dogyuun. However, the company has also revealed that it is bundling up all four collections…
“I thought, ‘How can you put these things together?’”. In 1938, Franzi Mechner, at just seven years old, was separated from his parents while fleeing from Nazi-occupied Austria. Travelling with his aunt Lisa, he spent the next three years evading the Gestapo across Europe, before eventually reuniting with his family in 1941. Flash forward to…
David Wise, Stoo Cambridge and Tony Warriner all confirmed. Last year saw the inaugural Kickstart Amiga show, a live event in the UK spearheaded by The Retro Hour’s Ravi Abbott. Attended by plenty of like-minded Commodore Amiga lovers, the show had hardware, software and special guests – and, by all accounts, went down a storm….
Final Formation is the second in City Connection’s “Final” series of retro revivals. At this year’s Shooters Fes, which took place in Japan over the weekend, Happymeal and City Connection announced Final Formation — the second entry into its “Final” series of Jaleco revivals, following last year’s Final Exerion (thanks Gosokkyu!). It is scheduled to…
Games, clothing, merch and more! The first few months of the year are usually pretty quiet on the retail front, but there are always great retro gaming delights to be found – if you know where to look! Below, you’ll find a selection of new retro-related goodies that have launched recently or that are now…
The announcement was made at this year’s Shooters Fes. During this year’s Shooters Fes in Japan, City Connection revealed the news that it will be releasing the Mega Drive port of Jaleco’s horizontally-scrolling shooter P47: The Phantom Fighter — almost 30 years after it was originally cancelled. Just to give you a quick bit of…
Based on Darkness Ethereal’s DOS release from 2000. Homebrew developer Rafael Daniel has revealed that a SNES port of Darkness Ethereal’s 2000 DOS freeware release Mysterious Song is nearing completion. The game has previously been ported to the NEC TurboGrafx CD by Frozen Utopia, and it was this version which brought it to Daniel’s attention….
“This game is a work of art and it should be preserved”. Perhaps the greatest contribution to society that American singer and actor Barbra Streisand made is the so-called “Streisand effect”. That is the backfiring attempt to hide something from the internet, resulting in said thing being more well-known than before the attempts started. Singing…