Retro Gaming News
Don’t be jelly. Back in 1995, just as the gaming world was moving into the 32-bit realm with the PlayStation and Saturn, Ocean released Jelly Boy on the SNES and Game Boy. Developed by Probe and only released in Europe, this platformer placed the player in the role of a transforming jelly bean. A Genesis…
Old School Gamer chats with former Sony Computer Entertainment producer Grady Hunt, who discusses the PS1 classic, Medieval. Old School Gamer: What was your role in the game? Grady Hunt: I was working at SCEA in the Product Development team, I was the Producer most interested in the title at the time. The art style…
A cosmetic update of the existing SN30 Pro. Accessory maker Genki has given us some genuinely interesting products of late, with the Shadowcast 2 and SavePoint being two of the more notable examples. It has also collaborated with 8BitDo to produce the Genki PocketPro, a Bluetooth controller which can be used with Windows, Apple (iOS…
“Try entering your name as a random Japanese games company to see what happens”. Taito’s 1991 beat ’em up Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III is being released today on the Nintendo Switch eShop and PS4, leading some online to draw attention to the game’s hidden Easter Eggs and secrets that may escape most players….
“I always believed that games can record people’s life and spread love”. Losing a loved one is a hard experience and an event that everyone deals with in a different way. For developer Zhou Yichen, the best way to deal with that grief was to create a Game Boy title which pays tribute to his…
The Metroidvania is available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC. Elden Pixels, the developer of the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC Metroidvania Alwa’s Legacy, has expressed an interest in bringing the game to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis in a recent post on social media. Previously, the company has already created an 8-bit…
About This Episode We’re Generation X kids who grew up largely unsupervised and left to our own devices. That often resulted in “play” time being a bit rougher and more hazardous than those who grew up in later generations. In this Backtrack, we’re taking a stroll down memory lane littered with the most dangerous toys…
“For me, the real battle has just begun”. The quest to preserve and document the fascinating number of games produced for Japanese “keitai” feature phones is one we’ve been covering on this site for some time now, but one of the most epic endeavours in this field suddenly seems to be making better-than-expected progress. Like…
The Crush 40 musician Johnny Gioeli claims Sega has breached their initial agreement. The Crush 40 musician and vocalist Johnny Gioeli is suing Sega of America for breach of contract, due to its use of the Sonic Adventure 2 song Live and Learn in “at least 25 video games”, as reported by Polygon (and supported…
Tap away! The MiSTer FPGA community is constantly coming up with cool ways to expand the system, and that includes amazing stuff like the TapTo NFC loading system (now known as Zaparoo), which allows you to instantly boot up a ROM using NFC cards, very much like loading a cartridge. This system has recently been…