Guide All Analogue Pocket OpenFPGA Cores And Where To Download Them
Update: Irem M92 core added
News New Konami Code Discovered In Castlevania Game 25 Years Later
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness was released for the N64 in 1999
News You Can Now Unbrick Any Sony PSP
"Turn your worthless brick into your precious handheld device"
Review AYANEO Flip DS - A Great (But Costly) Way To Play 3DS And Wii U In 2024
Plus everything else you could mention...
Feature All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace
News "The Tourists Have Taken Everything" Laments Japanese Resident As Retro Runs Dry
"I don’t bother shopping for retro games in big Japanese cities anymore"
News - April, 2024
Tuesday30th Apr 2024
News Evercade EXP-R And Evercade VS-R Consoles Launch With Tomb Raider This July
Update: Pre-orders now live
Wednesday1st May 2024
Guide Numskull Quarter Arcades - All Available Games And Where To Buy Them
Update: New arrivals are here!
Tuesday30th Apr 2024
News Retro Gaming Takes Over The BBC's Breakfast Show
Metal Slug and the Virtual Boy shown off to the masses
News Sega's System 18 Arcade Board Is Getting An FPGA Core
CPS3 core also in development
"Virtuality was the world leader in VR at one point"
Gallery Retro-Bit's Assault Suits Valken Looks (And Sounds) Great
It's all about the sound effect keyring
News Did Mad Catz Really Create "The Worst Video Game Controllers Ever"?
New video makes a strong argument
News SNK Arcade Games Athena And Fighting Golf Come To Analogue Pocket
Lee Trevino sadly didn't make the cut
Monday29th Apr 2024
News Someone Has Finally "Fixed" The Mega Drive's Audio Shortcomings
Say hello to MegaMP3
"Wrestlerage never happened; it evolved"
Anniversary 30 Years Ago Today, Commodore Died
The end of a computing legend
News Mighty Final Fight Is Getting An Awesome Fan-Made Sequel
Update: First gameplay teaser released
News Google's Wildly Inaccurate Attempt To Celebrate Sonic Causes Complete Confusion
"The closer you look, the stranger it gets"
News The Highlight Of EVO Japan? A Schoolgirl Dominating A Game Made Years Before She Was Born
"Chaperoned by her parents, and casually bodied everyone"
News Streets Of Rage 3 Cover Artist Finally Identified 30 Years On
Another art mystery solved
News New Rage Of The Dragons, Breakers Revenge And Asuka 120% Games Coming To exA-Arcadia
Plus a bunch of other titles for the arcade system
Random This Bulk Slash FAQ Has Been Puzzling Fans For Almost 20 Years
"I'll let you figure out these yourself"
Sunday28th Apr 2024
Saturday27th Apr 2024
Feature Rosewater Dev On Point ’n Click Westerns & Casting Red Dead’s Arthur Morgan
"I told him like, ‘Let’s make sure he doesn’t sound like Arthur Morgan.'"
Friday26th Apr 2024
News Grand Theft Auto III Likely Wouldn't Exist Without The Sega Dreamcast
Here's how Sega's console helped Rockstar find its groove
News How Google's Rampant Sunnyvale Expansion Is Erasing Atari's History
Sunnyvale developments have swallowed up Atari's former home
News Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog Is A Visual Novel With A PC-98 Vibe
Update: Switch and PlayStation versions confirmed
News The Source Code To Star Fighter 3DO Has Been Released Online
Thanks to the original devs and members of the 3DO community
News Duke Nukem And Max Payne Co-Creator Once Pitched An Escape From New York MOBA
"My contact at Fox Studios loved the pitch"
Thursday25th Apr 2024
Guide All Analogue Pocket OpenFPGA Cores And Where To Download Them
Update: Irem M92 core added
News Zelda Prototype Could Be Hiding Big Differences Compared To Retail Version
"NOA COPY 2.23.87" has been released online
News Dean Evan's Spectacular Waterworld SNES OST Is Being Released On Vinyl
Albeit unofficially...
Anniversary The Legendary Konami Code Passes Another Milestone Today
Was first included in Gradius back in 1986
News Do You Remember Scavengers, The Alien-Style UK Game Show From The '90s?
No, we didn't, either
Wednesday24th Apr 2024
News Prince of Persia Meets Streets Of Rage In The Stylish New Action Game Moon Samurai
It now needs your help to give it that "final push"
Fan-made game uses the OpenBOR engine
Random Did You Own This Bizarre Anti-Smoking Game For DS?
This has got to be one of the strangest games for the handheld
News Missile Dancer Dev Announces 'Crystal Breaker' For Switch & Steam
Crystal Breaker is yet another retro-style shmup from the Japanese developer
News "There's A Lot Of People Who Still Don't Know About Playdate"
Panic on two years of its yellow handheld marvel
Tuesday23rd Apr 2024
News Mega Man Legends 2's Japanese Prologue Is Finally Getting An English Fan Translation
Courtesy of the fan translation group Hilltop Works
News Atari Is Reviving Legendary Games Publisher Infogrames
Infogrames was a publisher active from the 1980s to the 2000s
News The Game Creation Kit 'Scorpion Engine' Adds Neo Geo Support
The engine also supports Amiga, Amiga CD32, and Mega Drive / Genesis
News This Handy Dreamcast USB Adapter Lets You Use Third-Party Controllers
Interface options aplenty
"I liken this journey to the one that Odysseus went through"
Monday22nd Apr 2024
News Here's Some Footage Of A Young Matt Berry Exploring CeX's Legendary Retro Shop
Back when the idea of retro was still pretty new...
News Octopus Arcade Stick Maker Is Tackling MiSTer FPGA Next With The TR Quantum
Complete with touch controls and plenty of connectivity
News Metal Slug Artist Recalls When Neo Geo Was So Popular "People Would Commit Crimes To Get It"
"I guess they thought it was a sales vehicle loaded with SNK games"
News Fanmade Sonic 3 Remaster 'Angel Island Revisited' Now Playable On PlayStation Vita
"Consider this a 'beta' release"
"When I next woke up, I was temporarily blind"
News This Dedicated Fan Has Fixed A Much-Maligned 'Fist Of The North Star' Video Game
"This should make the 'bad' original into a more enjoyable experience"
News PaRappa The Rapper-Esque Saturn Game 'Jung Rhythm' Gets English Fan Translation
Jung Rhythm came out in 1998, two years after PaRappa the Rapper
News Cyber Citizen Shockman 3 Is Being Rereleased On Consoles Next Month
It was originally released on the PC Engine CD-ROM² back in 1992 in Japan
News Double Dragon 3 Is Coming To Analogue Pocket
"I have a couple of minor issues to work out"
Sunday21st Apr 2024
Anniversary The Game Boy Is 35 Years Old Today
A pocket-sized revolution
News Mega Drive Mini 2 Cyber Stick Is Getting A Gun Attachment That's Perfect For Operation Wolf
Complete with 'electric blowback'
Anniversary Duck Hunt Is 40 Years Old
Zapping through the decades
Saturday20th Apr 2024
News The Sony PSP Gets Upgraded For 2024
Bring your beloved PlayStation Portable up to speed
News Sega TeraDrive Version Of Myst Forerunner 'The Manhole' Found And Preserved
Developed by Rand and Robyn Miller
News LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Taken Offline "Indefinitely"
Access to community creations no longer available
Friday19th Apr 2024
News The Processor Used In Pac-Man Is Being Discontinued, 48 Years After It Launched
The Zilog Z80 launched in 1976
News Arcade1Up & TaskRabbit Teaming Up To Make The Retro Games Room Of Your Dreams
Taskrabbit launching new service to assemble Arcade1Up machines
News This Essential GameCube Upgrade Is Now Available "For Free"
DOL-101 Digital Port kit files uploaded to GitHub
News New Book Aims To Celebrate Saturn, Sega's Beloved 32-Bit Console
"Rediscover the magic of the Sega Saturn"
News Thalamus Collection 1 Announced For Evercade Consoles
Pre-orders open later this month
News More Namco Shmups Are Coming To Analogue Pocket And MiSTer
Dragon Spirit, Dangerous Seed, Blast Off and Pistol Daimyo
News A "Lost" Persona 3 Feature Phone Game Is Heading To Switch & Steam In Japan
Persona 3 Aigis: The First Mission was first released back in 2007
News The Console Chronicles Arrives In June, Retail Edition Launches In October
Alongside A Handheld History: 88-95
News Legendary Ocean And US Gold Artist F. David Thorpe Has Passed Away Aged 84
"He was the one who set the benchmark"
News 35 Years Later, Prince Of Persia Has Just Got An (Unofficial) Port For The Vic-20
The port was inspired by Nicodim's unofficial ZX Spectrum port
News Tetrisweeper Is What Would Happen If Tetris And Minesweeper Had A Baby
Coming soon to Steam
Thursday18th Apr 2024
News You Can Now Unbrick Any Sony PSP
"Turn your worthless brick into your precious handheld device"
Review AYANEO Flip DS - A Great (But Costly) Way To Play 3DS And Wii U In 2024
Plus everything else you could mention...
News Meet Short Stack, The World's Smallest Nintendo Wii
"7.4% the volume of an original Wii console"
News You Can Use Your GBA As A Switch Controller (And On iPhone's New Delta Emulator)
Update: New iPhone emulator plays nice with your GBA
News 'The Epyx Collection: Handheld' Brings 6 Atari Lynx Games To Switch
The collection will release on April 25th
News Numan Athletics Is The Next Arcade Archives Release On Switch And PS4
1993 classic gets a new lease of life
News Delta Emulator Brings NES, SNES, Game Boy, GBA, DS, & N64 Emulation To The iPhone App Store
Available in the EU via the AltStore PAL marketplace
Same estate sale that gave us the $90,000 Castlevania
News Here's How Many Playdate Games Have Been Sold Since Launch
Panic shares sales data for the first time
News We're Getting A Final Fight Comic This July
Alongside "Street Fighter Vs Final Fight"
News "I Didn't Even Have A NES" Admits Lunar, Grandia And Langrisser Composer Noriyuki Iwadare
"I prefer video games that can be enjoyed by a large group of people"
News Richard Garriott And Brian Fargo Could Still Team Up To Create The Ultimate RPG
"It’s not too late dear friend!"
Wednesday17th Apr 2024
News PS1 Doom Has Been Backported To PC, Along With Its Amazing Soundtrack
Final Doom has been backported, too
News Tomb Raider "Giga Cart" Confirmed For Evercade, More Crystal Dynamics Collections Coming
"This collaboration marks a significant milestone"
News Golden Axe Is Getting A 10-Episode Animated TV Series From Comedy Central
From writers behind Star Trek: The Lower Decks & American Dad!
News Kickstarter For Star Control Successor Free Stars: Children Of Infinity Funded In 3 Hours
"We are excited to finally share the next chapter in our epic space saga"
News 'Beyond The Ice Palace' Is Getting A Sequel, 36 Years Later
For Steam, Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5
News Descent 3's Source Code Has Been Released Online, 25 Years Later
The shooter was published by Interplay back in 1999
Tuesday16th Apr 2024
News New Konami Code Discovered In Castlevania Game 25 Years Later
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness was released for the N64 in 1999
News The 2006 "PlayStation Experience" Trailer Can Be Yours For $70,000
Has been "out of service for several years"
News Mortal Kombat Is Getting A Fanmade Jaguar Port Over 30 Years Later
Update: A pre-Alpha build is now available via Patreon
Events Retro Computer Museum's Awesome World Famous Legendary Gathering, April 2024
Retro gaming in the heart of the UK
News Virtual Boy Emulation Is Coming To Apple's Vision Pro
Thanks to FPGA developer Adam Gastineau
Random Ex-Sea Of Thieves Dev Makes Adorable Playdate Proposal
Love Letters was made using the Pulp editor
News This New Sunset Riders Genesis' Hack Lets You Record Your High Scores
Brag to your friends about your gunslinging skills with this new hack!
Monday15th Apr 2024
News Evercade Is Getting New "Giga Carts" To Allow For Bigger Games
Two Giga Carts coming this year
News This GBA Is Built With (Almost) Entirely New Parts
FunnyPlaying's new GBA motherboard makes it possible
News Tomb Raider Collection Is Coming To Evercade
Amazon leak reveals the new pack
News This Portable PlayStation Uses Real PS1 Hardware
PS1 motherboard was "cut in half, folded like a book"
News This Astonishing Metal Gear Anime Is The Work Of Just One Person
Konami, give this man a job
News Wind Runners Looks Like A Modern Sci-Fi Take On The Amiga Classic Jetstrike
Coming "soon" to Steam
News Visions Of Mana's New Japanese Trailer Goes Heavy On Nostalgia
The next entry in the Seiken Densetsu series
News Boutique Video Game Record Label Ship To Shore Has Shut Down
Their back catalogue will be available through Materia Store in the future
Sunday14th Apr 2024
Feature All Is Not Well In The World Of FPGA Retro Gaming
Update: Pixel Cherry Ninja and Pramod Somashekar make peace
Friday12th Apr 2024
News "The Tourists Have Taken Everything" Laments Japanese Resident As Retro Runs Dry
"I don’t bother shopping for retro games in big Japanese cities anymore"
News FPGA Developer Wizzo Leaves MARS Team "On Good Terms"
"I would like to make that totally clear"
News Open-Source Tomb Raider Engine Now Includes An "Experimental" 60 FPS Mode
You can also slow down time
News Ex-Sega Composer Richard Jacques On Headhunter, The First Game Score Recorded At Abbey Road
"We didn't want to do anything substandard"
Anniversary The Amstrad CPC Just Turned 40, And We Almost Didn't Notice
40 years of Alan Sugar's baby
News MSX Title Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons Is Coming To Steam
"The spiritual sequel for the Maze of Galious"
Thursday11th Apr 2024
News One Of The Rarest NES Games Is Currently Up For Auction At Goodwill
Little Samson is highly sought after by collectors
News Former Citra Dev Says Team Behind 3DS Emulator Lemonade Stole His Code
"This is highly disrespectful"
News This New Atari ST Racer Is Looking Seriously Smooth
Working title: 'Atari STE 50fps Racer'
Review Sunsoft Collection 2 (Evercade) - Another Fine Mix Of Sunsoft Classics
Ufouria! Aero the Acro-Bat 2! Blaster Master: Enemy Below!
News Sunsoft's "Enhanced" Port Of Hebereke Is Out Now On Steam & Switch
On the Nintendo Switch eShop & Steam
News Namco's Arcade Puzzler 'Emeraldia' Is Coming To Switch & PS4
Distribution begins on April 18th
Random Here's A Horrifying Vision Of What Retro Emulation On Apple Watch Could Look Like
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could...
Wednesday10th Apr 2024
News Sega's Dinosaurs For Hire Was Overhauled Thanks To Gunstar Heroes
Not that it made a huge difference...
News Two More Evercade Carts Are Being Retired
"Legacy cartridges will remain on sale with retailers where stocks last"
News Anbernic Announces The RG28XX With Game Boy-Style Colourway
Capable of playing PSP and Dreamcast
News Hydlide II: Shine Of Darkness Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
Title was originally released in 1985 in Japan
News Rain World Devs' New Game Is Basically Jet Moto Meets Akira
'Airframe Ultra' is the latest video game from Videocult & publisher Akupara Games
News ININ Games Teamed Up With Fans For Its Rainbow Cotton Remake
The game releases on modern platforms next month
Random Crazy Taxi Fan Goes To Extreme Lengths To Ensure They've Got The Right Soundtrack
The best place to play? An Offspring gig, of course
Tuesday9th Apr 2024
News Fully-Funded Octopus Arcade Stick Will Support Over 20 Different Platforms
Including Genesis/Mega Drive and SuperGun
News Sealed NES Castlevania Sold For $90,000 Because It Was "The First Game My Mom Ever Bought Me"
Loads of sealed NES titles have sold online recently for high prices
News The Reason Sega Lost The 32-Bit War? The 32X, Says Yosuke Okunari
"The company was unable to focus enough on its main hope"
News Prototype Builds Of The Cancelled N64 Game 'Riqa' Published Online
Another "lost" piece of N64 history has been recovered
The Making Of Ride To Hell, The Open-World Epic That Became One Of The Worst Games Of All Time
"I believe the potential was definitely there"
News Cosmo Knight ZiON Is A New Game Boy Color Title Inspired By Saint Seiya
"An unforgettable gaming journey"
News Monkey Island Voice Actress Explains Her Sea Of Thieves Absence
Elaine Marley was recast in the 2023 expansion
News A Bunch Of RollerCoaster Tycoon Games Are On Sale On Steam
To mark the game's 25th anniversary
Monday8th Apr 2024
News 33 Years Later, Game Boy Title's 16-Player Mode Is Finally Unlocked
Faceball 2000, the way it was meant to be played
News Modder Transforms Rare PS1 Controller Into Working PS1 Console
Takara's Roulette controller was exclusive to Japan
News Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Ultimate Collection Includes 16 Games, Costs $70
And you can download it today
News Kickstart, The World's Biggest Amiga Show, Is Back This Year
David Wise, Stoo Cambridge and Tony Warriner all confirmed
News This $500 Game Boy-Style Handheld Is All About Bitcoin
"The first-ever Web3 gaming device"
News Metroid II Gets A Colourful Super Game Boy Upgrade
New border and custom palette
News 30 Years Later, P47's Cancelled Mega Drive Port Is Finally Being Released
The announcement was made at this year's Shooters Fes
Feature The Quest To Save Cookie's Bustle From Obscurity
"This game is a work of art and it should be preserved"
News City Connection Reveals Formation Z Revival For Switch & PC
Final Formation is the second in City Connection's "Final" series of retro revivals
Feature The Story Behind 'Replay' - The Moving New Memoir From Prince Of Persia's Creator
"I thought, ‘How can you put these things together?'"
News SNES Port Of 2000 Freeware RPG Mysterious Song Is Finally Nearing Completion
Based on Darkness Ethereal's DOS release from 2000
Sunday7th Apr 2024
News Fallout And Twin Peaks Star Kyle MacLachlan Stayed Up Late To Finish Mega Man
"We got all the way through to the end of that"
"TFW you discover someone is selling your sheet music illegally"
News Rare Composer Celebrates 30 Years With The Company
"Feeling very grateful and humbled right now"
News Sonic Co-Creator Yuji Naka Accuses Outgoing Dragon Quest Producer Of Fibbing In Court
"I hope he'll be gone soon"
Saturday6th Apr 2024
News Just Like Switch, Game Boy Color Now Has An "OLED Model"
DIY kit is a game-changer
News Retro Emulators Are Coming To iPhone's App Store
Thanks to new European ruling on third-party app stores
Friday5th Apr 2024
News Double Dragon Studio Wanted To Make A New 2D Golden Axe
But now Sega's making a 3D one
News CEX Is Launching Its Own Repair Service For Retro Consoles
For Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Sega, & Atari machines
News We Almost Got A Mecha Godzilla Designed By Metal Gear's Yoji Shinkawa
"I wanted to do it, but I didn’t want to disrespect"
News A Bunch Of Amazing Point N' Click Adventure Games Are On Sale On GOG
There are some incredible deals on games both old & new
News BAFTA Poll Declares Lara Croft The Most Iconic Video Game Character
Do you agree? Who's your pick?
News A Top Dragon Quest Producer Is Stepping Down After 32 Years
Yū Miyake will now head up the company’s smartphone games
News Shenmue Fan Releases Cute Chobu-Chan-Themed Virtual Pet Game
Now available for free on itch.io
Thursday4th Apr 2024
News We Have Yuji Naka To Thank For One Of The Coolest Genesis Intros Of All Time
Introduction would have been canned otherwise
News Demons of Asteborg Is Being Remade For GBA And Neo Geo
Update: A GBA demo is now available
News Atari's Retro Racer NeoSprint Roars Its Way Onto PC & Consoles This Summer
Coming to Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox consoles, and Steam
News 'Super Xevious: Gamp no Nazo' Is Next Week's Arcade Archives Release
The game first hit Japanese arcades back in 1987
News Dreamcast Shmup Triggerheart Exelica Is Getting A Western Release For Switch & PC
Was previously released on Switch in Japan in December 2023
News Remarkable Footage Resurfaces Of Monolith's Cancelled Batman Game
The project is believed to have inspired elements of Shadow of Mordor
News The MSX2 Version Of Dragon Slayer IV Is Coming To Switch
Scheduled to arrive April 11th in Japan
Wednesday3rd Apr 2024
News Mega Man: The Wily Wars Is Getting A New Fanmade Follow-up
Episode Blue "coming soon"
News Two Great Shoot 'Em Ups Combine In Söldner-X Complete Collection For Switch
The collection is expected to be released in Q4 2024
News The FM Towns Shooter Alltynex Has Just Got An English Fan-Translation
Alltynex was originally released back in 1996
News The Latest X-Men '97 Episode Is A Tribute To The Mutants' Video Game Past
Retro gaming fans may want to check this out!
Tuesday2nd Apr 2024
News 'Mighty Street Fighter' Is A New Fanmade Street Fighter For The Amstrad
More specifically, the Amstrad 128k & GX4000
News Revisit PlayStation's Launch In This In-Depth Video From Digital Foundry
At almost 3 hours long, you may want to get some popcorn ready!
News Legendary "Crap Game" Ikki Gets A Second Chance On Switch This April
Ikki Unite arrives April 18th
News The PSP Homebrew Developer Conference Returns This Week
On Saturday, April 6th
Anniversary Final Fantasy VI Is 30 Years Old
How did you first experience the classic RPG?
News Game Center CX Writer Launches New Video Game-Themed TV Show
Pajapiko is described as "a gaming slumber party"
Monday1st Apr 2024
News The NES Slotmaster Is An Open-Source Replacement For The 72-Pin Cartridge Slot
An open-source solution that is both affordable & easy to build
Interview Meet The UK Collector Creating His Own Retro Game Museum
"The whole purpose of these things is to be enjoyed"
News Turns Out, Spirit of Speed 1937 Isn't Back Online After All
Update: We've been fooled!
News Japan's Life-Sized Gundam Powers Down For The Final Time
18-meter tall robot deserves a rest
News Nottingham Video Games Expo Is Back, And Bigger Than Ever Before
Get 15% off with our special code
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