Tag: Announcement
US and European retrogaming fans eager to get their hands on SNK’s NEOGEO Mini gaming system shouldn’t have to wait much longer! Pre-orders for the diminutive system are expected to open from September 10th, with the unit reaching retailers sometime in October, and is expected to cost somewhere between £100 – £120 on launch. The Japanese edition of the console has…
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 Yu Suzuki’s classic Dreamcast titles are likely to be rejoicing at the news unveiled by Sega today, announcing that it plans to release updated versions of Shenmue and Shenmue 2 for PS4, Xbox One and PC gaming platforms some time during 2018. It seems fitting that the announcement should be made at this point in time, given that Suzuki currently working…
John W. Linville has announced that the RetroChallenge 2017/10 is now accepting signups. For those unfamiliar, RetroChallenge is best summed up as “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for month.” It gives us yet another reason to finish – or start – that project we’ve been working on or want to be working on. Usually…
News Updates from Vintage is the New Old. Two new game reviews have been added to our reviews page today. First up is Karateka by CheekyCrissy and the second is Cybertron Mission on the Acorn Electron by Stuart Johns. You can check out these latest reviews on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Robert Joy and…
The results are in and the winners are… (Drumroll) Micheal Watts – 13 Robert Joy – 8 Congratulations you have both won 3 day pass tickets for PLAY Margate worth £30 each! Tickets will be in the post to you both asap! Many thanks to everyone who entered.Keep an eye out for more competitions in the very near future!
We have broke 7000 followers on Twitter! We created our Twitter account around the same time as Commodore is Awesome website, way back in April 2011. We thought this was definitely worth a mention and also a great opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU! to all our Loyal Followers on Twitter, Facebook, our websites and also our Facebook Retro…
You may have been wondering what the hell is going on with Commodore is Awesome lately, so we decided that its about time we let you know, now that we have nearly finished. First up, we have moved servers. Commodore is Awesome can now be officially found at http://commodore.ninja, pretty cool eh? We think it fit’s the bill quite well,…













