Category: Games Consoles
The UK’s favourite Arcade, Indie & Retro video gaming expo comes to the Winter Gardens, Margate from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2015. Fans of gaming are in for a real treat! PLAY is brought to you by the organisers of Play Expo and video gaming suppliers to GEEK, so will be jam packed with hundreds of games, consoles, arcades,…
[youtube qwXEew58wV4 nolink] RetroCollect shows us another great finding – the release of a cancelled Game Boy Advance game – ‘Dune: Ornithopter Assault’. The game was developed by Soft Brigade and it was set to be released in 2002 but due to financial difficulties the publisher, the game was cancelled before it could reach the stores. The game can be…
It seems retro gaming has finally become mainstream, and you will have another source of overpriced retro-goods other than eBay! GameStop is planning to launch a new pilot program for classic consoles, games, and accessories starting April 25. Stores in its NYC and Birmingham markets, which comprise around 250 store locations, will play host to the program. The systems and…
This is a hack of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, aiming to provide new challenges for fans of the original, given the game a bit of an audiovisual update, as well as to make parts of the original game flow a bit better. The hack comes as an .ips patch and should be applied to a ver. 1.1 rom of…
[youtube l5PJXMrSTDc#t=137 nolink] With the recent release of the enhanced Raspberry Pi, it was only a matter of time before gamers pushed the pocket-sized computer to its limits. Taking the source code from the popular emulator Reicast, talented developers have managed to get Sega Dreamcast classics up and running on the Raspberry Pi 2. While there’s still plenty of work…
[youtube oVLqxel_jMY nolink] There’s nothing worse than booting up one of your favourite titles only to find your save game has been lost due to a backup-battery running out of juice. While there are methods available to backup your efforts before the inevitable end of a battery’s life, an all new USB solution has just been released allowing you to…
Two Megadrive demos were shared on Twitter recently. The first is a demo of Maldita Castilla which was originally released on pc a few years back and the other is named Real SF2, which seems to be a Street Fighter 2 demo which could be interesting. You can download them both from the links below. Download: CASTILLA.bin, sf2_lucho.binNews Source: @Pocket_Lucho
After 30 years trying to get 20,000 on Atari 2600 Pitfall game, Mikey Shake finally did it, and he has photos to prove it. Now he is seeking Activision to give him his deserved prize, as one of the members of Pitfall Harry’s Explorers’ Club. As he states in his post, the Club’s offer didn’t have any expiration date, so…
[youtube ewtfl24vCik nolink] Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death is a new retro-style adventure/puzzle platformer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Armed only with his trusty boomerang, Sydney must navigate dark caverns while avoiding bats, ghosts, hot lava and other obstacles. If you can survive all 10 caverns, you will be able to win your freedom.Your support for this…
[youtube UZnHsds1Vr8 nolink] Seems like Bruce Lee has the spotlight this year, what with the excellent Bruce Lee II that was recently released for the Commodore 64. Now we have been blessed with a Sega Master System version of the original and boy it looks good! Awesome colourful graphics, superb gameplay true to the original. It’s hard to find any…
