"Some SKUs sold out so quickly that they had to be temporarily removed from sale."
- News
- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
News Jaleco's NES Action Sidescroller 'Shatterhand' Punches Its Way To Nintendo Switch Next Month
The JALECOlle Famicom Ver. series is now 2 years old!
- News
- Jaleco
- NES
- Nintendo Switch
News OutRun Meets F-Zero In This New Amiga Racer Available To Pre-Order Now
"Do you have what it takes to be the top Hyper Runner?"
- News
- Amiga
- Homebrews
- F-Zero
- OutRun
News Mario Kart 64 In VR Looks Just As Bananas As You'd Expect
Based on Harbour Masters' unofficial PC port 'Spaghetti Kart'
- News
- Mario Kart
- N64
- PC
- VR
News "That Was One Game I Wish Had Come Out" - Ex-Rare Artist Kev Bayliss Talks Unreleased Games
"I'm sure there's some ROMs floating around"
- Rare
- Kev Bayliss
- NES
- Nintendo
'Marble Souls' rolls onto Steam later this year
- News
- Indies
- Steam
Along with a remix album, and a new online tool for creating your own maps
- News
- Amiga
- Worms
'Dawn of the Machine' is out now!
- News
- Quake
- id Software
Latest News
YesterdayFri, 7th Aug 2026
"Some SKUs sold out so quickly that they had to be temporarily removed from sale."
- News
- GBA
- AYANEO
- Emulation Handhelds
News Jaleco's NES Action Sidescroller 'Shatterhand' Punches Its Way To Nintendo Switch Next Month
The JALECOlle Famicom Ver. series is now 2 years old!
- News
- Jaleco
- NES
- Nintendo Switch
News OutRun Meets F-Zero In This New Amiga Racer Available To Pre-Order Now
"Do you have what it takes to be the top Hyper Runner?"
- News
- Amiga
- Homebrews
- F-Zero
- OutRun
News Mario Kart 64 In VR Looks Just As Bananas As You'd Expect
Based on Harbour Masters' unofficial PC port 'Spaghetti Kart'
- News
- Mario Kart
- N64
- PC
- VR
News "That Was One Game I Wish Had Come Out" - Ex-Rare Artist Kev Bayliss Talks Unreleased Games
"I'm sure there's some ROMs floating around"
- Rare
- Kev Bayliss
- NES
- Nintendo
'Marble Souls' rolls onto Steam later this year
- News
- Indies
- Steam
Along with a remix album, and a new online tool for creating your own maps
- News
- Amiga
- Worms
'Dawn of the Machine' is out now!
- News
- Quake
- id Software
Thursday6th Aug 2026
Update: Details on editions, pricing and release date revealed
- Exclusives
- SNES
- Nintendo
- 33 Games
News Evercade DOOM Collection + Evercade Nexus DOOM Edition Officially Announced
Update: Includes the first two games
- DOOM
- Evercade
"I can deal with disappointment. This feels more like a betrayal"
- Sega
- Shinobi
News "What if Super Mario Land Came Out Much Later?" - This Short But Sweet Demo Has The Answer
Super Mario Land's opening level gets a Super Mario Land 2 makeover
- News
- Mario
- Game Boy
- Fan Projects
Get your guesses in now!
- News
- Taito
- Mini Consoles
Review The Pico GX Makes One Of Console Gaming's Most Infamous Flops Infinitely More Appealing
Amstrad GX4000, you are forgiven
- Reviews
- Amstrad
- GX4000
- Features
News This New NES Patch Overhauls One Of The Console's Most "Difficult" Games
'Silver Surfer Redux' is out now!
- News
- ROM Hacks
- NES
News After 6 Months Of "Insane" Optimisation Work, PS3 Emulation Now Runs "Way Faster" On ARM
A new video covers the 6-month journey to "close the gap"
- News
- RPCS3
- PS3
- Emulation
Featuring three playable characters and 221 rooms!
- News
- Playdate
- Rare
- Ultimate Play The Game
Wednesday5th Aug 2026
Available to order now
- News
- Anbernic
- Emulation Handhelds
News Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan
Time to get excited
- Sega
- Japan
- Mega Drive
- Dreamcast
- Sega Saturn
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
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
Update: Now available for Analogue Pocket
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- Emulation
- GenAI
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
"Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call"
- Random
- Nintendo
- Animal Crossing
- GameCube
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
Tuesday4th 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 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
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
Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode is finally preserved in full
- News
- Final Fantasy
- Game Preservation
News Compile's Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project Has Been Translated Into English
You couldn't mech it up
- Fan Translations
- PC Engine
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
"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
