Category: Games Consoles
The guys behind the new Retro VGC are doing a limited run of Jag Console Case and Carts. It is very important for the interested people to know that the Translucent Jag orders have to be in by this Monday morning 8:00 AM pacific time USA. Console shell is $45 delivered in USA and $8 for carts. International add $15…
[youtube 351CO5_8fbM nolink] Super Smash Land is a free to play PC Game that is designed to look and feel like it is being played on the original Nintendo Gameboy!It’s a simplified experience while keeping the characters and features you are used to along with some other creativity. Trying it out is easy enough; Download it from the link below….
Warren Robinett, the veteran programmer, designer and The Learning Company founder known for his groundbreaking game design work at Atari, TLC and NASA, has given at GDC 2015 a Classic Game Postmortem lecture on the creation of his hit 1979 game Adventure for the Atari 2600 console. ‘Adventure’ also contained one of the earliest known “Easter eggs” ever hidden in…
[youtube b7AD2rMdZBk nolink] Announced more than year and a half ago, the horror adventure ‘Sacred Line’ for the Mega Drive is finally released as a physical cartridge for USD$39. Sacred Line for the Mega Drive is condensed retro console port of a PC game of the same name. Using pre-rendered backdrops of various creepy locations, you’ll be taken through a…
[youtube sdKrnmyQREQ nolink] It is happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since last January the exhibit ‘Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games’, an interactive exhibition that explores more than 40 years of video games through a dynamic visual tour of consoles and games that marked an era. The exhibition can be visited for free between 14:00 to 20:30 from…
The MagPI, now under the Raspberry PI Foundation umbrella, has just release its issue #31, and one of the featured articles is a review of three emulator packages for Raspberry PI: RetroPie, Raspicade and RiPlay. These are the article’s verdicts for each package: PiPlay – PiPlay offers a good collection of emulators that are easily configured to work with many games…
[youtube oi3WrkgRGsQ nolink] Zombie Incident is a Platform/Zombie Smasher game which is being launched this week on Nintendo’s European eShop. The interesting bit is that it was originally developed by a team including NeneFranz in 2011 for a contest, in which multiple games were developed on retro hardware. It won MSXdev’11 which, as the name suggests, challenged teams to create…
‘Cauterize’ from RetroCollect teaches how to make your own Nintendo Virtual Boy for cheap! Using Google Cardboard and an Android Smartphone, you can experience what was about to play the least known Nintendo console. The article also includes links for the cardboard model, the emulator and everything you need to build it yourself. Link: RetroCollect
If you are one of the two that owned a Virtual Boy in the past, this news will certainly excite you! Back then, Street Fighter II, after launching on the SNES has been ported practically to almost every existing game machine including the monochrome Game Boy. Nintendo’s own Virtual Boy was probably the only one that didn’t get its version,…
[youtube 46QdZmUs6fE nolink] Alice’s Mom’s Rescue is the first homebrew release for Sega’s 128-bit console this year, an expansive platformer with a traditional pixel-art style – one which is now available to buy in both standard and limited editions. Already available for both PC and Android, the newly arriving Sega Dreamcast version comes in two flavours – Standard and Limited…
