Category: Games Consoles
John Riggs just made what is probably one of the most touching tributes in memory of Satoru Iwata. He hacked Balloon Fight, replacing the protagonist with another image resembling Iwata. He also made the balloons shaped like Kirby. Riggs mentions on his video (below) that Iwata sprite was actually taken from Earthbound, another game that he was involved with. [youtube…
FreezeME is a 3D platformer deliberately designed to resemble platformers from the Nintendo 64 era.The main distinguishing mechanic is that the protagonist “R” can take pictures and “freeze” for a short period of time enemies and objects, generating new and interesting gameplay situations. “R” is hot on the trail of her best friend, “M,” who has been kidnapped by the…
Today is a sad day for all Nintendo fans. Satoru Iwata dies at only 55, victim of a tumour. He joined Nintendo in 1980, and became the company president in 1993. In his time as President, Iwata oversaw some of the strongest (Wii, DS) and weakest (GameCube, Wii U) periods in Nintendo’s history as a video game company. Last year,…
During a stormy night, an army of Octopuses attacked a human ship. One of them saved a woman who fell into the sea. A fairy, which saw his actions, gave him the power to breath outside the water, but in exchange, he has to promise to never hate a human. Tasukete Tako-San: Save me Mr Tako is an Action/Platformer with…
Now you can buy a tiny NES console powered by a Raspberry PI and Emulation Station. The kit includes: Pitendo Case Raspberry Pi 2 8GB microSD card with adapter HDMI Cable AC Adapter USB SNES Gamepad Although anyone can build something similar using open source software and 3D print models, at US$139 this kit seems to be a good deal…
We had reported here about the MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage. The game made its way to all major platforms since 2012, and now the developer wants to release it for MS-DOS, preferable using floppy disks!. Gamasutra sat with Brian and talked about his project. Right, but this was something I wanted to do years and years ago (…)…
Dungeon Stalker, a new game for the Atari 7800 developed by “AtariMaximus”, has reached its “Release Candidate” state. That means all development work is done and if there is no big bugs, the game will be released soon. Your character is a fearless female archer stuck in a dungeon with no exits. Her only option is to fight and try…
Here we have another Nintendo 64 rom hack which is very similar to the Waluigi in LoZ hack, except this time russmarrs2 modded Wario into the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Debug rom which has some different plugin settings to play on. You can download the patched rom in the link below, have fun! [youtube gFoMsxuCnTE nolink] Download: WarioOfTime.Z64Download:…
Waluigi in LoZ is a fan-made rom hack starring Waluigi, by modder russmars2. While not necessarily new News, our main focus on Vintage is the New Old is about Retro Gaming. We thought it would be a great idea to also post some older news that people may have missed or forgot about and what better way to start this off…
Blake Patterson wrote in his blog “Byte Cellar” about his visit to the “Places of Invention” Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, in Washington D.C. The exhibit is not only about vintage computing, but there is an important part of it dedicated to the rise of the personal computer. Besides the article that I recommend you to read,…
