News Castlevania ReVamped Fuses "Classicvania" With "Metroidvania"
Update: "Castlevania ReVamped will now be open-source"
Review MiSTer FPGA - Still The Best Option For Hardcore Retro Gamers In 2024?
Hands-on with the DIY wonder box
News The Game That Inspired The Term 'Roguelike' Is Now Available On Switch
Well, the Amiga port at least!
"Unless it's manufactured by Sega, it cannot have the Sega logo on it"
"No one has said anything to us about the 'SuperSega' name"
News Castlemania Is Super Mario World With Castlevania's Bite
New ROM hack channels the spirit of 'NES difficulty'
News - July, 2024
Wednesday31st Jul 2024
Review Anbernic RG40XX H - A Great Budget Emulation Device
One final hurrah for the Allwinner H700
News Castlevania: Bloodlines Is Being Unofficially Ported To SNES
"I'll release it when it's ready!"
News AYANEO Announces Price & Release Date For Pocket DMG And Micro Handhelds
"Get ready to relive your handheld dreams"
News New Genesis / Mega Drive Shmup 'ZPF' Also Coming To Steam, Switch, & Xbox
The Kickstarter campaign now closed, raising over $200,000 in total
News Retro Museum Creates Arcade Cabinet For A Lemmings Port That Never Existed
RMC - The Cave have released a new video showing off the stylish build
News Konami's 1988 Boxing Title 'The Final Round' Is Headed To Switch & PS4
The game will release on August 1st in Japan
News Fans Release English Patch For The 'Compati Hero' Famicom Board Game 'Shuffle Fight'
The game was released in 1992 exclusively in Japan
Tuesday30th Jul 2024
News Did Activision's Deadpool Game Really Cost $100 Million To Make?
The claim has appeared on Wikipedia, Gamespot, and elsewhere
Random This Daytona USA Cabinet Is Hiding A Sinister Secret
"We have seen the reckless disregard for community safety"
News The Dev Behind Mega Man Fangame 'The Sequel Wars' Is Working On A SNES Game
UPDATE: A new trailer and name has been revealed for the game
News The Bitmap Brothers Collection 2 Brings Amiga Classics To Evercade
Cadaver! Gods! Magic Pockets!
News Detective Instinct Looks Like A Must For Fans Of Famicom Detective Club
UPDATE: A free demo is now available
News New Fan Project Aims To Solve Ultima VII's "Greatest Problem"
"Ultima VII is a 3D world stuck in a 2D engine."
News This Classic ZX Spectrum F1 Game Is Getting Republished
1985 title Formula One is available again
News Mega Man Series Getting New Comics From Udon Entertainment In 2025
Udon announced the news at this year's San Diego Comic-Con
Monday29th Jul 2024
News Lost NES Game From Ex-Rare Developer Rescued After 38 Years
'Glug' is the work of Paul Proctor, who worked on 'Wizards & Warriors'
News Donkey Kong '94 Gets A 'DX' Game Boy Color Remaster, Thanks To Fans
"This has grown into my most ambitious project ever"
News Cyber Mission's Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Port Is In Trouble
Due to a dispute between PSCD Games & the publisher Gameenergy
News F-Zero-Inspired G-Zero World GP Is Now Available For Your Game Boy Color
Update: Free to download, too
News Mario Meets Pokémon, Splatoon, Doom And Resident Evil In Fan-Made "Multiverse" Project
" The exact release date is uncertain"
News 42 Years Later, The ColecoVision Is Back As A $2,300 MAME Cabinet
Just what we needed, right?
"I’d actually started planning the project back in 1990"
News Sunset Riders Comes To MiSTer FPGA And Analogue Pocket
"Four gunmen looking for action under the hot sun"
News FIFA Or PES? Sensi Or Kick Off? New Book 'A Tale Of Two Halves' Covers Them All
The history of video gaming's biggest sports genre
Saturday27th Jul 2024
Quiz How Well Do You Know Castlevania?
Test your knowledge of Konami's classic series
Friday26th Jul 2024
News BurgerTime Is The Latest Classic To Join The Quarter Arcades Range
BurgerTime was first released in arcades back in 1982
News GoRetroid Unveils New Charging Dock For Its Handheld Systems
The 7-in-1 dock was teased earlier this week on social media
News An Unofficial Mega Drive Sequel To 'Kenseiden' Has Just Been Released
Powered by Earok's Scorpion Engine
News Trick Tactics Is A New Card-Based RPG Coming To Game Boy
A demo is available now on itch.io!
News Video Game Legend Julian "Jaz" Rignall Has Written A Book About His Life In Gaming
"The Games of a Lifetime" arrives next year
News Soul Reaver I & II Could Be Getting Remastered For Modern Platforms
That's according to a new "leak" from the SDCC show floor
Thursday25th Jul 2024
Talking Point Does Video Game History Have A "Nintendo Problem"?
"Nintendo fans live in a bubble"
News Dragonyhm Is A Promising New Title For Your Game Boy Color (And ModRetro Chromatic)
UPDATE: Will be released as a Chromatic cart
News You Can Play This Fan-Made Sega Vs. Capcom Crossover Right Now
Update: Second Beta arrives at the end of the month
Random This Guy Liked A Girl So Much He Modded A Neo Geo Pocket Game To Ask Her Out
"We got together and now we are married"
Wednesday24th Jul 2024
News EverDrive Maker Krikzz Releases $40 Genesis / Mega Drive ROM Cart, Open-ED
"Built in the old school style"
News This Dreamcast VMU Plays Sega Genesis Games
Very Much Up for that, thanks
Tomohiro Kawase is something of a legend
News This Amazing Sega Genesis Port Of Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Is Available For Free
Update: "Don't accept paying for this game"
News Unofficial Sega Neptune FPGA Prototype Shown In Action
"Behold the Sega Neptune prototype"
News JALECOlle Famicom Edition Brings Jaleco NES Classics To Switch
Kicking things off with Pinball Quest
News SNK Vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos Is Coming To Modern Platforms
Update: Physical release confirmed
News Namco's RPG Adventure 'VS. Valkyrie no Bōken' Is Coming To Arcade Archives
The game was released back in 1986 for Nintendo's VS. System
News GTA Publisher Rockstar Games Once Tried To Make A Tony Hawk Game
Hawk snubbed the publisher for Activision, and the rest is history
Tuesday23rd Jul 2024
News Castlemania Is Super Mario World With Castlevania's Bite
New ROM hack channels the spirit of 'NES difficulty'
News Diablo Is Being Ported To The Sega Dreamcast
Dev has done "unspeakable things" to get it to this point
News A Japan-Exclusive 'Bomberman Jetters' GBA Game Has Just Been Fan Translated
Bomberman Jetters: Densetsu no Bomberman released in 2002
News Katamari Damacy's Ambitious Mobile Port Has Just Been (Partially) Preserved
Katamari Damacy Mobile was released back in 2007
News Abathor Features A New Track By Mario Kart And Pilotwings Composer, Soyo Oka
"She studied with Kōji Kondō and worked with Shigeru Miyamoto"
Monday22nd Jul 2024
News 'Batman: Revenge Of The Joker' For The Sega Genesis Gets Impressive Fan Overhaul
New costumes! Gameplay improvements! And more!
Interview The Company That Brought Resident Evil Back To PC Wants To Resurrect More Capcom Classics
"We worked very closely with Capcom, and our relationship definitely grew in the process"
News Fans Have "Fixed" Super Street Fighter II For The Sega Genesis
SRAM! Better music! Improved colours!
News Sega And Namco Legend Seichi Ishii Wants To Reboot Virtua Fighter
"I would like to do it in Japan"
News For The First Time In A Decade, A Nintendo World Championships Gold NES Cart Is Up For Sale
"That's how important this game is to the video game hobby"
News Tobal No. 1 Was Almost A Chrono Trigger Fighting Game
"Toriyama showed up and said, 'I'll draw new ones'"
News Duke Nukem's Co-Creator Reveals Old Pitch For 'Big Trouble In Little China' Game
"It's all in the reflexes'
Feature Nottingham Video Game Expo 2024 - A Fun-Packed Weekend In England's "Silicon Valley"
Guest speakers, traders, indies and more
News Street Fighter And Kingdom Hearts Composer Joins Retromessa As It Celebrates 10 Years
"I’ve been calling Japan for months to get her here"
Sunday21st Jul 2024
News SNK Working On Art Of Fighting Reboot And "Action RPG" Samurai Shodown
SNK reconfirms development at EVO 2024
Friday19th Jul 2024
News The Game That Inspired The Term 'Roguelike' Is Now Available On Switch
Well, the Amiga port at least!
News Rockstar Came Extremely Close To Releasing 'The Warriors' On GBA
"We finished the game. It was actually f**king fun to play"
News Sunsoft Announces Remake Of The SNES Racer 'Hashire Hebereke'
'Hashire Hebereke EX' will be released next year for PC & Switch
News Kenji Eno's Groundbreaking Saturn Title 'Real Sound: Kaze No Regret' Is Now An Audiobook
Was originally aimed at blind players
Random This New 'Wolf Fang Kuuga 2001' Model Has Us Reaching For Our Wallets
The 'Type01 Soryu' model is priced at ¥6,050
Thursday18th Jul 2024
News Yuzo Koshiro Shares New Footage Of Genesis / Mega Drive Shmup Earthion
Update: Even more footage has been unveiled
News A New Metal Slug Game Is Out Today, But Don't Get Too Excited
Metal Slug: Awakening is a mobile game featuring "chance-based in-game purchases"
News Here's Our First Footage Of 'Final Vendetta' On Neo Geo Hardware
Bitmap Bureau says they're "now into the final stages" before manufacturing
News ZX Spectrum Classic 'Scuba Dive' Gets Surprising New PC Fan Remake
Scuba Dive was originally released back in 1983
News You Need To Check Out These Adorable Konami-Themed Gashapon
Goemon! Snake! Pyramid Head! And More!
News Has Your SNES Pad Seen Better Days? Don't Worry, A Fix Is Coming
"Getting closer to matching OEM membrane design and hardness"
News GoldenEye 007 & Perfect Dark Artist Brett Jones Has Passed Away
Jones worked at Rare from 1994 to 2002
Wednesday17th Jul 2024
News New Report Highlights One Of The Major Challenges Facing Game Preservation
Unnamed organisations are limiting access to games in public libraries
Feature The Forgotten Satellaview Sequel To Famicom Detective Club
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997
"Some of the biggest inspirations for Gun-Dog came from old movies and anime."
News Speedrunners Discover Ridiculous New Glitch Route For Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance
And it's already led to a new World Record!
News The Crazy Taxi Team Almost Made A Resident Evil-Style Survival Horror For The PS2
"Carbondale" was cancelled at the playable prototype stage
Tuesday16th Jul 2024
News World's First Dreamcast FPGA Core Shown In Action
The SuperSega console's secret weapon?
Martin Alltimes worked as a producer at Sony from 1994 to 2001
News 'Heir Of The Dog' Is A New Retro-Style Point & Click Adventure Inspired By Jekyll & Hyde
Now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
Monday15th Jul 2024
News Footage Of Unreleased NES Jetpac Successor 'Plasma0' Shared Online
From one of the developer of Wizards & Warriors for NES
Interview Say Hello To Jocelyn Benford, The First Person To Give Princess Peach A Voice
"I guess we did well though since Hotel Mario still has a lot of fans"
News You Can Now Play Sega Rally 2006 In English, Thanks To This Handy Fan Patch
Sega Rally 2006 was never localized for the West
News The Popular Tokyo Games Store 'Friends' Is Closing Down
The Akihabara game store will be closing at the end of August
News Metro Siege Is A Fantastic New Beat 'Em Up Coming To The Amiga
A preview is now available!
Sunday14th Jul 2024
Review TapTo NFC Loading System - Gives MiSTer FPGA A Vital Physical Connection
Better than browsing a list?
News PS2 Emulation Just Took A Massive Step Forward Thanks To PCSX2 2.0
"We all still have plenty more we want to see done"
Saturday13th Jul 2024
Quiz Can You Match These Consoles With Their Controller Ports?
Can you tell a Master System from a 3DO? Test your knowledge...
Feature The Challenge Of Teaching Game History In The Age Of Minecraft, Netflix And ChatGPT
"The sad news is that we have to force students to check it out"
Friday12th Jul 2024
"Unless it's manufactured by Sega, it cannot have the Sega logo on it"
News Metal Gear Solid's E3 Reveal Had The Syphon Filter Team "Despairing"
Konami "were doing everything that we were trying to do, better"
"It’s like, 'What? Why did you ever do this in the first place?'"
News GCNET Is A GameCube Network Adapter That Fits In Your Console's Memory Card Slot
Compatible with all GameCube models that have a memory card slot
"Kenji Eno deserves better than this"
News The Next Analogue Pocket Limited Edition Is Made From Aluminum, Costs $500
Comes in four Anodized colours
News "We Passed A Somewhat-Obscure Game About A Plumber" - Terraria Overtakes Super Mario Bros.
Terraria has surpassed 58 million in sales
Thursday11th Jul 2024
News The "Worst PlayStation RPG Ever" Has Just Got A Fan Translation
'Ancient Roman - Power of the Dark Side' came out in Japan in 1998
Interview "It's Easy To Get A Bit Over-Ambitious" - Roguecraft Devs On Developing For Amiga In 2024
"Roguecraft was supposed to take about 6 months to develop and ended up taking 2 years"
News 'Out Of The Vortex' Is A Genesis / Mega Drive Brawler That Nobody Knew About, Until Now
David Cage worked on the music
News Raiden NOVA Reimagines The Shmup Classic As A Twin-Stick Blaster
Coming to PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch
News Sega's Game Gear Is Getting The Book It Truly Deserves
"A deep dive into Sega's portable"
News Taito's Arcade Football Game 'Hat Trick Hero' Is Coming To Switch & PS4
Arrives July 18th in Japan
News Double Dragon Revive Is Coming To Modern Consoles In 2025
...but not Nintendo Switch
News Platinum Games Almost Tackled Marvel's Black Widow After Bayonetta
"The market research said no one wanted to play Black Widow"
News Promising Fan Project 'Pocket Fighter EX' Was Cancelled "Because Unity Betrayed Its Devs"
"They changed the rules suddenly"
Wednesday10th Jul 2024
News New Videos Of The Unreleased Dreamcast MMORPG 'Farnation' Appear Online
The Sega MMORPG was first announced back in the year 2000
News Sierra On-Line's History To Be Told In New Documentary, Legends Of Adventure
Update: A crowdfunding page is now live on Backerkit
Feature Cracking The Mystery Of Duke Nukem Advance's Two English Localizations
The two localizations recently came to light on The Cutting Room Floor
News Metal Gear Solid's Getting New (And Miniature) Tubbz Figures
Including a tiny Solid Snake
News Parking Garage Rally Circuit May Be Getting A Saturn Port
"If the game hits 100,000 copies sold, I’ll make that Saturn version!"
News Ninty Media's Next Book Tackles The Game Boy Advance
"Packed with insight, nostalgia, retrospectives and bespoke artwork"
News Ridge Racer Night 2024 Celebrated 30 Years Of Namco's Arcade Classic
Even Reiko Nagase turned up!
News Namco's 'Tinkle Pit' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release
Coming to PS4 & Switch on July 11th
Tuesday9th Jul 2024
Review MiSTer FPGA - Still The Best Option For Hardcore Retro Gamers In 2024?
Hands-on with the DIY wonder box
News GameCube Gets Achievements Thanks To The Dolphin Emulator
RetroAchievements support arrives this month
News Super-Rare SNES PlayStation Controller Is Going Up For Auction
"This is just the second time we've offered a Nintendo PlayStation Controller"
News Evercade VS-R, EXP-R And Tomb Raider Collection Hit By Small Delay
Now coming in August
Random This Is One Device Doom Should Never Have Been Ported To
A new meaning to "blowing your WAD"
Monday8th Jul 2024
News Castlevania ReVamped Fuses "Classicvania" With "Metroidvania"
Update: "Castlevania ReVamped will now be open-source"
"I want nothing more than to actually try and make a version that runs on the Saturn"
Random Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night's Most Useless Item Is Also Its Funniest
Discreetly increases height!
News An Unreleased GBA 'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi' Game Has Been Found & Preserved
The prototype is the work of the developer Altron
News "Resurrected" Sega Neptune Console Gets Its First Exclusive, Sword Of The Apocalypse
Side-scrolling action platformer breaks cover
News You Can Now Quadruple The Original Xbox's RAM, But We Wouldn't Advise It Just Yet
Prehis2oricman's new mod takes memory to new heights
News We Have Cruis'n USA To Thank For Sega Rally's Brilliance
"The taste changed during the development process"
News HD Remake Of Genesis Zelda Rival 'Soleil / Crusader Of Centy' Gets A Demo This Month
"I preferred not to say anything until it was completed"
News Kumagumi Launches New Double Dragon Clothing Collection
Also includes mugs, posters and more
News Fans Get Excited As 'Marvel vs. Capcom 4' Gets Name-Checked In Deadpool Comic
Does the Merc with a Mouth know something we don't?
News The Amazing Playdate Exclusive 'Gun Trails' Is Coming To Other Platforms
The project will include a graphical update, rearrange OST, & various design tweaks
News Rare Arcade Game 'Point Blank X' Playable For All On PC, Thanks To New Patch
The patch is the work of the modder Argonlefou
Friday5th Jul 2024
News Wii And GameCube Emulator Dolphin Gets A Version Number Overhaul
It only took eight years
News "The Game That Surpassed Super Mario" Is Available In The West For The First Time
Atlantis no Nazo recently joined Nintendo Switch Online
"This Kickstarter is connected with some seriously racist content"
News AntStream Now Allows You To Stream Over 1,300 Retro Games To Your iPhone Or iPad
Cloud gaming service has loads of classic games
News Thunder Force V's Soundtrack Is Getting A Remaster To Celebrate Saturn's 30th Anniversary
"The ultimate sound source of the masterpiece"
Thursday4th Jul 2024
News Falcom's Popful Mail Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
As part of the EGGCONSOLE series
News MiSTer FPGA Now Supports The Sinden Light Gun
NES, SNES, Genesis and PS1 cores currently supported
News Sonic Mania's Dreamcast Port Is Looking Fantastic
It's unofficial, of course
News Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII & 18 Other Previously Lost i-Mode Games Have Been Preserved
The impressive haul includes multiple Kingdom Hearts games
News Phantasy Star Is Getting Its Own Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Powered by the Esper Genesis roleplaying rules system
Wednesday3rd Jul 2024
News The FPS That Paved The Way For Wolfenstein 3D & Doom Is Getting A New Big Box Release
Catacomb 3-D was originally released in 1991
News Jaw-Dropping SNES Mod Fixes One Of The Console's Biggest Problems
Update: "This is now a COMPLETE solution"
News New "Pedestrian Mod" Turns NiGHTS Into A 3D Platformer
"I've made a patch to give players a new challenge"
News The GB Operator Turns Your Game Boy Camera Into "The Worst And Best Webcam You'll Ever Have"
"We can't wait to see everyone having fun with it"
Feature The Forgotten Legacy Of Taito Of Brazil
"Taito was one of the first multinational companies specialising in games"
News Atari's Super Asteroids & Missile Command Are Being Reissued For Lynx
Pre-orders open on July 8th
Tuesday2nd Jul 2024
"No one has said anything to us about the 'SuperSega' name"
News Evercade Maker Blaze Is Releasing Two New Super Pocket Consoles This Year
Super Pocket Atari Edition and Super Pocket Technos Edition
News 'Roguecraft' Is A Stunning New Roguelike Coming To Amiga This Year
Update: Pre-orders are open now
She will be releasing the first chapter this month as a digital book
Hands On Run 'n' Gun: A History Of On-Foot Shooters Takes You From Contra To Cuphead
Bitmap Books is back with a blast
News Creator Of The Handheld Saturn Is Making A Portable MiSTer Next
...but there's a catch
Update: Bill Gates and Kazuhiko Nishi episode now live
News Prince Of Persia Gets Astonishing Unofficial Port For The Commodore Plus/4
And you can play it now!
Monday1st Jul 2024
News "Arguably The Most Powerful Xbox Modchip" Is Here, And It's Super Cheap
Macho Nacho Productions goes hands-on
News Mega Drive / Genesis Shmup 'ZPF' Smashes Kickstarter Goal In Just 19 Minutes
The game is being published by Mega Cat Studios
News This Japan-Only Shin Megami Tensei Spin-Off Is Being Translated Into English
Giten Megami Tensei launched in 1997
Random Was Hudson Copying Sega's Homework With Adventure Island III's Palm Trees?
"Change it a bit so it's not obvious you copied"
News "I Am In Talks With Atari" - Howard Scott Warshaw Gives Update On His Yars' Revenge Sequel
"A design exists" and is "ready to begin implementation when they are"
News Cancelled SNES Game 'Cooly Skunk' Could Finally Be Getting A Cartridge Release
Update: The crowdfunding campaign is now live
News Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver Returns, But As A Graphic Novel
Coming to crowdfunding soon
News The Soundtrack To SNES Doom Just Got An MSU-1 Upgrade
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