Category: Games Consoles

While the Super Nintendo may have had an excellent Game Boy adapter to play the pocket-sized classics on the big screen, Sega never released an equivalent for their colourful Game Gear handheld. With a hefty amount of solder and a custom built board, one retro gamer has made his very own 2-in-1 Master System with a Game Gear cartridge slot…

[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…

Another day, another try, but remember.. SHOOT OR DIE! Earok (Erik Hogan) over at Unofficial CD32 Ports has updated his lovely website with yet another new release. This time round it’s something very special for all you die hard Turrican fans out there! Get ready for the Turrican Anthology! You may remember back in 2011, RGCD released a similar compilation….

While the Super Nintendo may have had an excellent Game Boy adapter to play the pocket-sized classics on the big screen, Sega never released an equivalent for their colourful Game Gear handheld. With a hefty amount of solder and a custom built board, one retro gamer has made his very own 2-in-1 Master System with a Game Gear cartridge slot…

The Nintendo 64DD is often regarded as being one of those highly collectible items we’d all love to own, but in reality the lack of available games for the add-on make it a tough purchase to justify. Although the lure of an F-Zero X Expansion Pack, Sim City 64 and the first appearance of Doshin The Giant may be tempting,…

[youtube g4gBXXWwi7w nolink] Are you ready to watch the new ‘Jurassic World’ movie? If not (or even if you are), how about warm up watching this clip inspired by 1993 original movie, reimagined as a 8-bit retro game? The clip was made by CineFix and published on its YouTube channel “8-bit Cinema”, and there we see Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant,…

Driar is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom written by Stefan Adolfsson and David Eriksson. Rickard Nilsson helped out in early development. The game is designed for PAL (50Hz) systems, but works well on NTSC (60Hz) systems as well. The game and music will however play a bit faster on a NTSC system.Objective Take control of Driar and…

‘The Game’ is an Amiga homebrew platformer made with AMOS Pro by jayminer. Heavily inspired by You Have to Win the Game, Jay mentions that this was something he made a couple of years ago, but thought it was time to release it to the public. Quote from the forum thread‘I consider this a version 0.9 of the game but…

The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…

An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…