Retro Gaming News
Why Are Players Returning to Retro Gaming? Gamers worldwide are turning their focus from graphics-focused FPS and role-playing AAA games to games packed with nostalgia. This phenomenon makes sense. As adult life gets more complex, escape into games from another era becomes more common. But that isn’t the only reason why retro games are making…
The worm has turned. He might not be quite as famous today, but once upon a time, Earthworm Jim had considerable commercial pulling power and became one of the most popular characters to emerge during the latter part of the 16-bit era. Four games have been released in the franchise – Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim…
Check out the highlights of the recent livestream. Hardware maker AYANEO made headlines recently after its CEO apologised for letting down its customers, with a new roadmap put in place and the crowdfunding campaign for the promising Pocket Play being delayed. This revised approach hasn’t put a stop to the company’s prolific release schedule, it…
Shipments will reportedly be staggered due to “efficiency limitations”. As we’ve said before on the site, the Retroid Pocket 6 hasn’t necessarily had the smoothest or most conventional of roads to release. Following its original announcement in October 2025, for instance, its manufacturer, Retroid, withdrew the device from sale in response to online criticism and…
Company needs to get the Mega95 out of the way first. Hyperkin isn’t the swiftest company when it comes to getting announced products out of the door, as we’ve recently seen with the Mega95 handheld. Revealed at the start of 2024, the portable Sega Genesis hadn’t been mentioned until last week, when Hyperkin admitted it…
Well this is brilliant news, as I found out yesterday by a good friend of ours that the 1986 Arcade game called ‘Jail Break’, which was also released on many different systems such as the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum, is coming to the Amiga as an arcade conversion/port by JOTD. The same developer who…
Coming 2026. When we reviewed the TrimUI Brick back in December 2024, we were impressed with the pocket-friendly emulation-based handheld, but had a couple of minor complaints. Among them was the lack of an analogue stick, which dampened the experience somewhat of playing N64 and Sega Dreamcast games on the handheld, and the size of…
Something happens after the first few hours of Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon that you won’t expect, especially if you haven’t played the series before- it becomes engrossingly fun. In spite of some control issues, a weak opening scene and at times awful writing, the game, in a John Hughes meets Little Rascals sort of way,…
‘Ghostship’ features support for 60+ FPS & custom textures. A new PC port of Super Mario 64 has just been released, giving players another way to experience the classic N64 title, with features that were not originally available in the console version. The port of the game, which is being dubbed Ghostship, is the work…
The only official port of 1984 classic is for the NES. When you’re discussing the birth of the modern fighting video game, then Konami’s 1984 coin-op Yie Ar Kung-Fu is likely to crop up fairly regularly. Alongside Data East’s Karate Champ – released in May of the same year, just a few months before Konami’s…