Retro Gaming News
‘ZX Football Manager – The Legacy Collection’ combines “Three flavours” of the classic game. The creator of the football management sim, Kevin Toms, is partnering up with the homebrew publisher Midnight Brew Games for a new ZX Spectrum-based collection, inspired by the series that made him famous. ZX Football Manager – The Legacy Collection is…
‘Mr. Do!’ & Master of ‘Monsters: Disciples of Gaia’ are heading to modern consoles. Universal’s tunnel-digging maze game Mr. Do! is coming to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S as part of the Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 series of retro reissues, Hamster revealed earlier today. Originally released in 1982,…
Gamers wouldn’t know which sequence they’d play until it began, and the unveiled info was only useful after a lost life returned them to the menu. By comparison, the freedom of choice in Mega Man allowed struggling players the opportunity to gain an advantage by prioritizing the levels they found easiest. The structure of Mega…
“We don’t anticipate problems from any of the platforms.”. Overserved: Food Fighters is undoubtedly one of the more curious Neo Geo titles in recent memory. Though on the surface it may look like a fairly straightforward party game inspired by titles like Saturn Bomberman, behind the scenes, it is shaping up to be one of…
“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t on the table”. Jasen Hicks, founder of Jasen’s Customs and creator of the Panzer arcade fight stick range, has revealed that a manufacturing error has placed the future of his business in doubt. Hicks, whose fight stick business dates back to 2012, explained on social media that…
CD32 pad support is coming to the Amiga version, too. We posted our review of the excellent Amiga and ST title Return To Blacktooth: A Head Over Heels Adventure yesterday, stating that Colin Porch’s sequel “builds on everything that made Ritman and Drummond’s classic so good and delivers one last drop of magic from a…
Say hello to the Motecast. Back in 2024, Sega peripheral development manager Kenji Tosaki revealed that Sega had almost created a Dreamcast controller that was “pretty close to the Wii Remote”. Now, thanks to the efforts of developer and hacker Yombo, we’ve got an interface that is somewhat close to matching that unfulfilled vision. As…
He died over two years ago, but we’re only now getting permission to report it. On Friday, 12th January 2024, the head of Mitchell Corporation and industry veteran Roy Ozaki passed away. He was born in Kobe on 31st December 1950 and was 73 years old. This is the first public news of his death…
“Regardless of genre or whether it’s new or old”. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe Games has asked its fans which titles they would like to see released physically in the future. The firm – which is a collaboration between Limited Run Games and localisation company 8-4, Ltd – has released physical, limited-edition editions of a bunch of…
A sequel 40 years in the making. More than 35 years ago, in 1989, Colin Porch finished programming the Amiga and Atari ST versions of Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond’s 1987 classic Head Over Heels and immediately began work on a sequel, which is only now being released, almost 40 years later. Return To Blacktooth…