News AYANEO's Latest Game Boy Advance-Inspired Handheld Is Now Available To Pre-Order
The KONKR Pocket Advance's full specs have been revealed
- News
- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
"Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call"
- Random
- Nintendo
- Animal Crossing
- GameCube
Available to order now
- News
- Anbernic
- Emulation Handhelds
News Bandai's Japan-Exclusive PS1 RPG 'London Spirit Detectives' Is Now Available In English
"Artificial intelligence tools were NOT used in the creation of this patch"
- News
- PS1
- Bandai
- Fan Translations
News Ever Wondered How The Dreamcast Boot Sequence Is Rendered? Well, Wonder No Longer
"It's faster to hide them than to erase them from memory"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
Love-de-Lic's 'UFO' is also coming to Console Archives
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
News Pre-Orders For Quarter Arcade's Battlezone 1/4 Cabinet Open This Week
"Enter the vector battlefield..."
- News
- Quarter Arcades
- Atari
- Rebellion
Latest News
TodayWed, 5th Aug 2026
News AYANEO's Latest Game Boy Advance-Inspired Handheld Is Now Available To Pre-Order
The KONKR Pocket Advance's full specs have been revealed
- News
- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
"Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call"
- Random
- Nintendo
- Animal Crossing
- GameCube
Available to order now
- News
- Anbernic
- Emulation Handhelds
News Bandai's Japan-Exclusive PS1 RPG 'London Spirit Detectives' Is Now Available In English
"Artificial intelligence tools were NOT used in the creation of this patch"
- News
- PS1
- Bandai
- Fan Translations
News Ever Wondered How The Dreamcast Boot Sequence Is Rendered? Well, Wonder No Longer
"It's faster to hide them than to erase them from memory"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
Love-de-Lic's 'UFO' is also coming to Console Archives
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
News Pre-Orders For Quarter Arcade's Battlezone 1/4 Cabinet Open This Week
"Enter the vector battlefield..."
- News
- Quarter Arcades
- Atari
- Rebellion
News Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan
Time to get excited
- Sega
- Japan
- Mega Drive
- Dreamcast
- Sega Saturn
News The ZX Spectrum Just Got A Colourful Pac-Man Style Game That You Can Play Right Now For Free
A donation to a charity of your choosing is encouraged, though
- News
- ZX Spectrum
- Homebrews
Update: Now available for Analogue Pocket
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- Emulation
- GenAI
YesterdayTue, 4th Aug 2026
"I can now focus on the parts I enjoy most"
- Emulation
- GBA
- Game Boy
- GenAI
News Two Cancelled Virtual Boy Games Join 'Nintendo Classics' Today
Nintendo Life Retro revival
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch Online
- Virtual Boy
- Nintendo Classics
News "The Circle Is Closing" - Duo Of Deals Establishes A "Clear Framework For Commodore And Amiga"
Things are coming together
- Commodore
- Amiga
News "I Threatened Him" - Capcom Producer's Radical Approach To Negotiating With Miyamoto
Nintendo Life Well, it worked
- Nintendo
- Capcom
- Zelda
- Game Boy
Disc-cuss
- Features
- MiSTer FPGA
- FPGA
News The Original Xbox Intro Was Rendered In Real-Time, And Here's The Proof
Pure Xbox Boundary Break is at it again
- Xbox
- Microsoft
- Random
- Original Xbox
News Leaked Roadmap Hints At Xbox's Plans For Backwards Compatibility In 2026-2028
Pure Xbox Including a "gradual rollout" for Xbox 360 games "across next-gen devices"
- Xbox
- Xbox 360
- Disc To Digital
- Backwards Compatibility
- PC
Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode is finally preserved in full
- News
- Final Fantasy
- Game Preservation
News Here's Why LucasArts Couldn't Call Their Game Star Wars Episode 1: Podracer
Anyone remember Ubi Soft's 'POD'?
- News
- LucasArts
- Star Wars
News Compile's Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project Has Been Translated Into English
You couldn't mech it up
- Fan Translations
- PC Engine
"No generative AI or LLMs have touched any part of this translation"
- News
- Fan Translations
- Super Famicom
And public testing has already started
- News
- Star Wars
- SCUMMVM
Monday3rd Aug 2026
News A New N64 EverDrive Flash Cart Has Been Released With A Dedicated 64DD Core
EverDrive-64 Pro is shipping in the next few weeks
- Nintendo
- N64
- EverDrive
- 64DD
News Third Time's A Charm As Data East's RoboCop Comes To Genesis / Mega Drive
Demo now available
- Sega
- Homebrews
- Mega Drive
- RoboCop
"We didn't design it, I swear"
- Random
- Nintendo
- Intellivision
- Amico
With Galactic Racer on the way, we revisit a N64 (and Dreamcast) classic
- Features
- The Making Of
- Star Wars
News Commodore's Divisive Callback 8020 'Dumb Phone' Now Has Its Own AI-Assisted Video Game
"The algorithm panics"
- Commodore
- Callback 8020
- C64
News AYANEO Says It Will Release A GBA SP Clone, It Just Hasn't Figured Out How To Do It Yet
"We will make a GBA SP"
- AYANEO
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
- Nintendo
- GBA
News New Patch Unlocks WipEout 3's Euro-Only 'Special Edition' Content For U.S. And Japanese Players
Speed boost
- WipEout
- Patches
- PS1
Sunday2nd Aug 2026
Poll Box Art Brawl: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (GameCube)
Nintendo Life Drumroll please...
- Features
- Polls
- Box Art Brawl
- GameCube
- Donkey Kong
Saturday1st Aug 2026
"New games built specifically for the Commodore 64 Ultimate's unique capabilities"
- Commodore
- C64
"As with all games from that era, time was our enemy"
- Features
- Nintendo
- NES
- The Making Of
Friday31st Jul 2026
"Something was strange about these cartridges"
- Nintendo
- NES
- Super Mario
News Zelda: Link To The Past Gets A Dual-Screen Port On 3DS, With Help From AI
"Built with help from Codex"
- Zelda
- 3DS
- GenAI
- Homebrews
- Nintendo
Hands On Taki Udon's Console Mode Finally Gives MiSTer FPGA the Accessibility I've Always Craved
Works on both MiSTer and SuperStation One
- MiSTer FPGA
- FPGA
- SuperStation One
- Taki Udon
- Hands On
For fans who like "methodical party-building, careful mapping, & turn-based combat"
- News
- Steam
- Wizardry
- Etrian Odyssey
- RPGs
Arrives on Nintendo Switch & PS4/PS5 next month
- News
- Neo Geo
- Xbox
- PlayStation
- Nintendo Switch
News 8 Years After Its Original Release, Lumines Remastered Is Now Available On Android & iOS
"The classic audio-visual puzzle sensation, now in your pocket."
- News
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi
- Lumines
- Android
- iOS
Thursday30th Jul 2026
Tatsumi's 1983 racer 'TX-1' joins Arcade Archives today
- News
- Arcade Archives
- Console Archives
"The guys that came up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pitched Andy first"
- News
- Battletoads
- TV
- Animation
News Don't Worry, The Neo Geo AES+ Hasn't Been Delayed
Unconnected delay causes confusion
- Neo Geo
- SNK
News "A Small Part Of Gaming History" - This Unique Sega Naomi 'Cosmic Smash' Cab Is Up For Sale
Update: And it's gone!
- Sega
- Arcades
'Thimbleweed Park 2' is coming in early 2028
- News
- Ron Gilbert
- Terrible Toybox
Did you spot this reference?
- News
- Taito
- ZX Spectrum
- Ocean Software
News A New Fan Translation Has Just Dropped For The Casio Loopy Title 'I Want a Room in Loopy Town!'
Human translated, but Claude code was used to "decode" the Loopy's Hitachi SH-1
- News
- Casio Loopy
- Fan Translations
Wednesday29th Jul 2026
News SuperStation One's Delayed 'Console Mode' Is Available Now
Update: "We delayed this release from last month until today to fix issues and to cook"
- Taki Udon
- SuperStation One
- FPGA
- PS1
News Evercade DOOM Collection Leaks Ahead Of Full Announcement
Update: Includes the first two games
- DOOM
- Evercade
News We're Finally Getting A Naomi Port For Dreamcast, But The Monkey's Paw Curls
"The entire port was done with AI, with minimal effort on my part"
- Sega
- Dreamcast
- GenAI
- Arcades
News Sega Touring Car Championship Has Been Hiding This Sega Rally Easter Egg For Almost 30 Years
A rally sneaky secret
- Sega
- Sega Saturn
- Easter Eggs
