Retro Gaming News
“Case mods, custom screens, and feature upgrades are on the way”. If you’ve been exploring the world of FPGA retro gaming in recent months, the name Taki Udon will be familiar. The driving force behind the “$99 MiSTer FPGA” is working on a wide range of projects right now, including handhelds and even an FPGA-based…
“I remember when nothing was explained to you”. Voice actor Neil Newbon has become one of the hottest names in the business following his impeccable turn as Astarion in the massively popular Baldur’s Gate 3, but he’s by no means a newcomer when it comes to video games, having already lent his vocal talents to…
Final Fight, Darius and Fantasy Zone all shown off. Final Fight, Darius and Fantasy Zone are some of the ’80s most popular and enduring coin-ops, and design documents relating to these and more classic games are currently being shown off at Siggraph Asia 2024. As spotted by the ever-reliable @vgdensetsu, a host of images taken…
There’s an old joke about Pac-Man and video games. Everybody knows that video games don’t really influence kids’ behavior. After all, if they were imitating Pac-Man, they’d just be chasing each other around dark mazes, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. Any sort of teleplay that tries to adapt Pac-Man, of course, runs…
Alfa System’s Linda Cube was initially released for the PC Engine CD in 1995. Earlier this week, the video game developer Meteorise (the company that owns Alfa System) announced it has received a transfer of intellectual property rights for the cult classic Japanese horror RPG Linda Cube from the internet service provider BIGLOBE, reigniting hopes…
Including “a few very iconic and long-requested games”. Speaking to Time Extension recently, GOG’s senior business development manager, Marcin Paczyński, has stated that the company intends to preserve at least 500 classic PC games by the end of 2025, as part of its new preservation program. This will apparently include “a few very iconic and…
“Nothing else will be needed to enjoy MiSTerFPGA gaming”. The open-source MiSTer FPGA project has been revolutionary since its inception a few years back. It allows users to replicate the performance of consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade machines on a hardware level, offering superbly accurate emulation with very low latency. In its most common form,…
“These are all things you can only experience with VR”. Konami has given Contra a real boost lately via the release of Contra: Operation Galuga, and the famous run-and-gun franchise is getting more exposure thanks to an upcoming collaboration with Japanese studio Thirdverse’s free-to-play VR hero shooter X8 called Contra: Super Wall Storm. “As someone…
New retro gaming products and physical cartridges coming next year. Evercade maker Blaze has announced that it is collaborating with Japanese veteran SNK on new Neo Geo-related products in 2025 and 2026. The deal will see Blaze brands Evercade and HyperMegaTech getting official-licensed SNK items, including “retro gaming products and physical cartridge releases for use…
Riglas was released exclusively in Japan back in 1985. The sidescrolling role-playing game Riglas is the latest PC-88 title to come to the Nintendo Switch eShop, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro rereleases. Released in 1985, exclusively in Japan, the game saw players take control of a young boy called May, a…