Category: Retro Gaming
SNK has finally revealed concrete details regarding it’s up-and-coming NEOGEO mini console unit. In an update to the company’s website, the console now has a release date of Summer 2018, designed to celebrate SNK’s 40th anniversary. Pre-orders for the console expected to commence in the near future, with links to Amazon displayed on the site’s homepage. For anyone unfamiliar with…
Fans of Sega’s jug-eared, one-time mascot might be interested to hear that Domarius Games has just released a Alex Kidd in Pico World for the PICO-8 Fantasy console. For those unfamiliar with the PICO-8, it is a virtual machine designed and developed by Lexaloffle Games primarily as a platform for learning about, developing and creating games for a machine with…
The PC Engine has quickly become my favourite gaming console of all time within the brief period that I have been exposed to this great tiny machine that features a large library of quality arcade type games. It was only 12 months ago, I purchased an unmodified CoreGrafx unit with a handful of HuCard games and was immediately hooked with…
Having achieved critical success with The Last Ninja and it’s subsequent sequel in 1987 and 1988 respectively, System 3 had developed a formidable reputation as one of the top software houses in 80’s Britain. No longer simply just the publisher of relatively obscure budget titles, the studio had soon become developer and producer to some of the biggest and best…
The 2018 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition deadline is just around the corner, and nothing less than 20 contestants have already submitted their games. Since we are all very busy keeping real life and retro gaming in balance, wouldn’t be great if there is a good summary somewhere giving you a quick overview of all of them? Thankfully, Ausretrogamer thought the…
To celebrate the success of the first two issues of The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throw Back Zine, Mike Salzman has announced that he is giving away Atari 2600 trading cards. To get one entirely free (US and Canada only), you just need to fill out the form linked at the end of this article. The first and second issues sold incredibly well…
The gaming market is awash of retro gaming hardware solutions, providing the ability to play original cartridge games natively up-scaled from their original resolution to allow them to look good on modern HD televisions. Playmaji is looking to take this a step further with the impending launch of POLYMEGA, a modular retro gaming system that supports multiple cartridge based and…
Hyperkin has finally made available for pre-order its new retro console, the RetroN 77. The machine will let you play original Atari 2600 cartridges as well as the original joysticks and paddles. Back in may, we posted an update where the developer had mentioned the desire to price the new console as low as possible to make it accessible to a large audience. Now we know…
Eagle-eyed forumites over at CPCWiki have spotted early signs that a conversion of TAD Corporation’s Toki could be set to receive a conversion to the Amstrad CPC. AmstradGPP, a duo of French developers, recently uploaded a series of images to their Twitter account to showcase progress that they have made on the game. According to the post, despite being amateur…
Revival Studios recently launched two new games for the precursor to the Commodore 64, the VIC-20. With new gameplay trailers recently announced on the developer’s official Twitter feed, the first of these games is Down!, a take on the ‘Endless Runner’ genre where the player must descend vertically through a series of platforms, making sure to drop through any available gap…
