Retro Gaming News
…but there are more questions than answers. In this job, I’m used to seeing old, defunct companies come back from the dead, typically when some unrelated third party comes along and hoovers up a bunch of rights. But even I don’t really know what to make of this recent post from the publisher Empire Interactive…
“We want to revive the curious spirit of the old internet “. Wes Fenlon, the person behind the utterly superb Read Only Memo newsletter, has announced a new initiative he has created alongside Matt Sayer called Warp Point. “Warp Point is built around simple technologies like RSS with a simple premise: Helping writers connect with…
Yoko Kobayashi designed the iconic ship and the game’s other characters. Thanks to a new interview, we now know who was responsible for creating the amazing characters in Sega’s Fantasy Zone series of scrolling shmups. As spotted by VGDensetsu, Beep21 (paywalled) has just spoken to Yoji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Masaki Kondoh to celebrate forty…
Impressive knowledge on display. Nintendo has just revisited Star Fox 64 (again) on Switch 2 and delivered a game that reminds us why Fox McCloud and his crack team of mercenaries are so beloved in the world of video games – and it hides an Easter Egg that proves the team behind the game are…
Ridiculously, only 100 units were allocated overseas. Last Friday, AYANEO opened pre-orders for the AYANEO Pocket Micro 2, its successor to 2024’s AYANEO Pocket Micro, with a more powerful processor, a better battery, and dual power TMR joysticks, causing a mad rush to secure the console from its website. But almost as soon as it…
We haven’t featured a PC remake of Ian Bird’s Amiga/Atari ST Strategy game Deuteros for awhile, especially as a number of announced remakes of this classic game have been announced and then dropped never to be seen again. Thankfully it looks as if Tony Cheetham has taken to the task, as he has recently announced the…
“Put your hands together if you wanna clap”. As revealed earlier today in a YouTube video from 2dos, Donkey Kong 64 will soon be getting an unofficial PC port from the developers of the Donkey Kong 64 Randomiser. The Recompiled port is based on the “N64: Recompiled” project by Wiseguy and is the work of…
Presumably there’s no car chases in this one, right? The Tetris Company has announced it is working on a new CG-animated adventure series for kids (ages 6+), alongside executive producer Chuck Williams, best known for his work on video game adaptations like the original Sonic the Hedgehog movie (h/t: VGC). Tetris: World Builders was announced…
‘Art Of Fighting 3 R’ revealed. Following the announcement earlier this month that Ninja Master’s ~The Scroll of the Ninja Emperor~ will soon be joining the Neo Geo Premium Selection lineup, SNK has now revealed yet another remaster of one of its titles for Steam: The Path Of The Warrior: Art Of Fighting 3 R….
When you think about mobile gaming in the 80s and 90s, you are more than likely going to be thinking about some version of the Nintendo Game Boy. Nintendo managed to dominate the handheld market, even with a number of competitors, many of whom had superior technical specifications. But no one was able to match…