Update: Rose Tinted Spectrum is live again
Update: "We are working on this incredibly weird and awesome project"
News Sega Just Announced New Hardware, But Don't Get Too Excited – It's Not Dreamcast 2
The emojam is a pager for, you know, kids!
News Sega Wanted Phantasy Star IV To Flop In The West, Hence The Sky-High $100 Price
So says Working Designs' Victor Ireland
News - November, 2024
Friday29th Nov 2024
News Genesis JRPG Traysia Is Getting A New Physical Release In 2025
Features the art of Mahiro Maeda
News Accusations Of AI Art Deflate Archer Maclean's DropZone 40th Anniversary Announcement
Update: Steam page vanishes, casting doubt on release
News Polymega System Update 1.1.32 Now Available, And Boy Does It Do A Lot Of Stuff
So much so it's recommended you use an Ethernet connection
Thursday28th Nov 2024
News Watching This 30-Year-Old Joypad Take An Ultrasonic Bath Is Strangely Satisfying
"This Saturn controller has 30 years of human gunk and & filth"
News Saturn Cult Classic Princess Crown Is Getting An Uncensored Translation
These things are like buses
News Yuzo Koshiro's Genesis Shmup Earthion Is Getting An Upgraded Arcade Release
Will have better audio, no slowdown and "additional elements"
A PSP & Atari Jaguar port have also previously been announced
News Someone Compared All The Versions Of Battletoads So You Don't Have To
Yes, even the Amiga CD32 version
News The Atari ST Racer 'Vroom' Is Officially Being Ported To The Jaguar
Better late than never, right?
News Backyard Soccer '98 Is Available Now On Steam
The rerelease is also Steam Deck verified, for gaming on the go
Wednesday27th Nov 2024
News If Nothing Else, SuperSega's Latest "Review" Should Convince You To Keep Your Wallet Shut
"No, no, it doesn't suck"
Feature The Story Of The Indiana Jones Adventure We Never Got To Play, And The Comic It Inspired
Indiana Jones & The Iron Phoenix was in development at LucasArts between 1993 to 1994
News You Can Join The Creators Of WipEout In A Special Event At London's Loading Bar
"Don’t miss this rare chance"
Tuesday26th Nov 2024
News Irem Hit Vigilante Is Getting A Fan-Made Genesis Port
Was only ported to Master System and TG-16 back in the day
News Sega "Pimped Out" On Mallrats Director Kevin Smith Back In 1995
"We had changed it all for nothing"
News "The Most Mysterious Game On The Internet" Has Been Found
Noah's Ark was "lost" for decades
News We're Getting A New Magic Knight Game Next Year To Mark The Character's 40th Anniversary
Series includes Fingers Keepers, Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer
Monday25th Nov 2024
"Having real names provides evidence of what each person contributed to the game"
News Fighters Megamix Has Been Hiding A Secret Stage For Nearly 30 Years, And Here's How To Find It
"I will reflect on this for the rest of my life"
News 40 Years After The Original, Ant Attack 2 Is Coming To Spectrum Next
Ants in your pants?
News Kazuhiro Ikeda, The Artist Behind Sega Rally 2's Beautiful Cover, Has Passed Away
Artist was famous for his car artwork
Titles were all intended for the Brazilian market
Friday22nd Nov 2024
News Dreamcast Is Still Offering Up "Wild" Tech Secrets, 25 Years On
"One of the wildest things I've ever, EVER seen in all my years of romhacking"
News OutRun's Japanese Mobile Port Has Been Preserved
In addition to the Shadow the Hedgehog auto-scroller 'Shadow Shoot'
Anniversary Sega Saturn, The Most Successful Console "Flop" Of All Time, Turns 30 Today
History has done Saturn dirty
News Toki's Commodore 64 Port Is Getting A Fan Remaster, And It Looks Great
The remaster hopes to improve some of game's "crude" character sprites
Feature How John Ferrari's Kids (And Grandkids) Are Helping Resurrect C64 Superstar Maximus Mouse
"He loved what he did and was brilliant at it"
News Virtua Fighter 5 Is Set To Make Its Steam Debut
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O arrives on Steam later this Winter
Thursday21st Nov 2024
News 'George A. Romero's Resident Evil' Documentary Gets January Release Date
The film will be available on digital & demand in the US & Canada
News Donkey Kong Country Has Just Got Three Challenging New ROM Hacks
It's time to test whether you're the King of Kong!
News Grant Kirkhope Explains Why Some Donkey Kong 64 Tracks Are Missing From His New Remix Album
"Legally, you’re only allowed to do cover versions of tracks that have already had a release"
News After 22 Years, The Cult Claymation Shoot 'Em Up 'Platypus' Is Being Remade
UPDATE: The first trailer for the game has just been released
News Deadpool & 6 Other Delisted Activision Games Get Mysterious Steam Update
The change was spotted via the third-party website SteamDB
News The Action RPG 'The Scheme' Is The Latest PC-88 Being Brought To The Switch
The game features music from the legendary composer Yuzo Koshiro
Wednesday20th Nov 2024
News The Company Behind 'The Spectrum' Is Asking Fans Not To Share Latest Retailer Leaks
"We want it to be the same experience for everyone"
Feature The Untold Story Of WipEout Zero, The PS4 Anti-Grav Racer We Never Got To Play
"I’m pretty gutted that Zero never got finished"
News Blaze Offers Update On The Evercade Products Launching in November & December
"The Evercade Alpha is set for a global release between November 28th and December 16th"
News Yuzo Koshiro's Stunning Genesis Shmup Earthion Delayed Until 2025
"It's taking a bit longer than planned"
News Midway Coin-Op 'T2: Judgment Day' Is Coming To Analogue Pocket, With Gun4IR Support
Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in the arcades back in 1991
News 'Sony: Year By Year' Book To Celebrate Seven Decades Of The Japanese Tech Giant
Update: The Kickstarter for the book is now live
News 23 Years On, And New Combos Are Still Being Discovered In Capcom Vs. SNK 2
The game that keeps on giving
News Taito's Final Blow Brings Some Arcade Boxing To The Nintendo Switch & PS4 Later This Week
Final Blow was released in arcades back in 1989
Tuesday19th Nov 2024
Update: "We are working on this incredibly weird and awesome project"
Random Donkey Kong Country's 'Aquatic Ambiance' Gets Impressive Mega Man-Style Remix
The remix accompanies an incredible Mega Man-style animation based on DKC's 'Coral Capers'
The artwork is currently on display as part of the 'Tezuka Fighting Universe' Exhibition
News One Of The Worst Mickey Mouse Platformers Has Just Got A Fan Upgrade
Infogrames' 'Fantasia' adaptation was released in 1991 and was criticised heavily at launch
News Genesis Cult Classics El Viento And Earnest Evans Are Making A Comeback
New collection incoming?
News "Maybe One Day We Could Work With Nintendo" - Bitmap Books On Staying Small And Ambitious
"Bitmap began with me just wanting to produce things that I would want to buy"
Monday18th Nov 2024
Review ModRetro Chromatic Is So Close To The Real Thing You'd Think Nintendo Made It
An FPGA-based Game Boy Color for $200
News "Still Haven't Forgiven Atari For This" - Remembering The Ill-Fated Gameband Smartwatch
$500,000 raised, but no refunds
News Of Course The Dreamcast's "Most Powerful VMU" Can Play Doom
8BitMod's VMU Pro is living up to its name
Friday15th Nov 2024
News Two Lost Sega Channel Games Have Been Found And Preserved
Klondike Solitare and The Chessmaster
News Piglet's Big Game Gets Compared To Resident Evil And Silent Hill, Starts Selling For Big Bucks
"I'm playing this because of your post and holy s**t"
Random Tetris Forever Is The Closest We'll Get To Seeing Pokémon On PlayStation And Xbox
New collection gives Pocket Monsters some cross-platform visablity
News Epic Games Is Totally Chill About You Downloading Unreal And Unreal Tournament For Nothing
Games have long since been removed from sale online
News Worms Creator Andy Davidson Will Be Attending The Bristol Video Game Expo Next Year
"We felt it was time to venture across to other areas"
Thursday14th Nov 2024
"Who wouldn't wanna play Monkey WipEout Kart?"
News Remember When Dragon Quest III's Launch Triggered Arrests In Japan?
RPG sold over a million copies in a single day
News The ZX Spectrum Just Got An Amazing New Donkey Kong Port, But Don't Expect It To Be Around Long
Not if Nintendo has anything to do with it, that is
News Atari ST Shoot 'Em Up 'Wings Of Death' Is Getting A Jaguar Port
From the original developers, no less!
News Embracer Group Interim Report Leaks 'FZ: Formation Z' Western Release Plans
"Please stay tuned for more information on Formation Z in the future"
Wednesday13th Nov 2024
News Three "Lost" Shining Force Games Have Been Preserved
Shining Force Chronicle I, II, and III were released on mobile devices
News Retro-Bit Postpones Pre-Orders For Toaplan Shooters Collection 2
Due to "an issue with one of the featured games"
News Another Konami Arcade Classic Is Coming To PS4 & Nintendo Switch
Konami's Ping Pong first hit the arcades back in 1985
News You Can Now Rediscover A Forgotten Piece Of PlayStation History, Thanks To Antstream Arcade
Five Net Yaroze games have been added to the service
News This Essential Genesis / Mega Drive Book Is Getting An Expanded "Ultimate" Edition
Read-Only Memory's Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works gets an upgrade
Tuesday12th Nov 2024
News The Genesis Just "Broke Another Myth" With This Amazing Rendition Of A Classic Castlevania Tune
"The only way it could sound bad is in the hands of incompetent artists"
News Bitmap Brothers Legend Dan Malone "Had No Input Whatsoever" In The Speedball Reboot
"I'm not sure they really care"
News Valve Is Releasing A Limited Edition White Steam Deck OLED Next Week
The device will cost £599 and will be available in limited quantities
News Trials Of Mana Is Being Adapted Into A Stage Play To Celebrate Its 30th Anniversary
The play will run between March to April next year
Monday11th Nov 2024
Update: Rose Tinted Spectrum is live again
News Another Dreamcast Game Comes Back Online
Golf Shiyouyo 2 can be played online again
News Wizardry Co-Creator Shares Surprisingly Wholesome Story About A Video Game Pirate
"The day after Andy passed away, I got a letter in the mail from a Wizardry player"
News Amiga Classics Turrican And Worms Are Teaming Up
Worms: The Director's Cut is getting a Turrican-themed level
News "We Need To Sell At Least 75" - Nuon Game 'Ring Flyer' Needs Your Help To Make It "Worthwhile"
Get $10 off if you order before November 22nd
News Exhibition Celebrating The Work Of Late Rare Artist Brett Jones Now Open To The Public
Update: Former Rare developers have already visited
Sunday10th Nov 2024
Interview Meet The Man Who's Upgrading SNES Doom With The "Super FX 3" Chip
"Super FX 3 is a great nickname that we've been using internally"
Saturday9th Nov 2024
Interview Capcom Legend Harumi Fujita Reflects On Her Impressive 40-Year Career In Games
Harumi Fujita is responsible for the music to many of Capcom's biggest titles
Friday8th Nov 2024
"It can be hard to keep track"
News To Celebrate 30 Years Of Saturn, A New Version Of Yaba Sanshiro Is Coming To Windows PCs
Will benefit from new features and fixes
The Japan-only 1997 classic might soon be playable in English
News Revisit Sega's Groundbreaking Sega Channel Service With These Newly-Preserved Videos
Sega Channel was a cable-based video game service that was active during the 90s
News Sonic Wings Reunion Is Coming To Switch, PS5 And Steam Next Year
Update: Watch the "reveal" presentation here
News "Thanks For The Nostalgia Kick" - Devs Behind The Getaway Look Back On A PS2 Classic
"I found some photos that I don't think have ever seen the light of day"
Thursday7th Nov 2024
Interview How NES RPG Former Dawn Is Bringing CD-ROM Power To Nintendo's 8-Bit System
"Not only was this possible, it almost happened in reality in 1990"
News Want Your Very Own Sega Neptune? You'll Need A Spare $2,600
"Final cost in terms of labour/time and parts was ridiculous"
News More Classic PS1 RPGs Could Be Coming To PS5
"The offer's there, the talks are there, they're productive"
"It seemed there'd been a not-very-robust sign-off process"
Random This $13,000 Set Of Scales Plays King Of Fighters '98
Tanita announces pedometer, thermometer and hygrometer, too
Wednesday6th Nov 2024
News Sega Wanted Phantasy Star IV To Flop In The West, Hence The Sky-High $100 Price
So says Working Designs' Victor Ireland
News Archivists Uncover Lost Commodore 64 Game From The Co-Creator Of Centipede
Computer Theatre was developed back in 1984 at Activision but was never released
$5 reduction on all "Batch 2" MiSTer Pi systems
News Irem's Arcade Bomberman Comes To FPGA Platforms
Thanks to a new Irem M90 core
News Tower Of Druaga Prequel 'VS. The Quest Of Ki' Is Making The Journey To Switch & PS4
The game will be released on November 7th
Tuesday5th Nov 2024
News Sega Just Announced New Hardware, But Don't Get Too Excited – It's Not Dreamcast 2
The emojam is a pager for, you know, kids!
"They don't really care about making the best version"
Review WipEout Futurism - A Breathtakingly Exhaustive Deep Dive Into A PlayStation Classic
We take a look at the Thames & Hudson retail edition
News This Proto-GamesMaster TV Show Predicted Our Impending AI Hellscape 40 Years Ago
Magic Micro Mission was broadcast in 1983
Monday4th Nov 2024
News 8-Bit Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Getting An Impressive Fan-Made Remake
"And yes, we're including the Spindash"
News Promising EmuDeck Machine Declared Dead After Failing To Secure Funding
"I'm canceling the project and refunding all money"
News Remember When A Sega Genesis Got Fused With A Digital Camera? Yep, We'd Forgotten About It, Too
Say hello to the Sega "Camega"
News Confusion Reigns As SuperSega Pre-Orders Get Charged For The Full Amount
It was previously claimed that three euros would secure your unit
News New Luigi's Mansion Mod Gives The Game A Pikmin-Themed Makeover
'Louie's Mansion' is available to download now
News Archivist Successfully Preserves Over 500 Classic Video Game Toys
"It's taken thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours..."
News Atari Has Acquired Chris Sawyers' Classic PC Sim 'Transport Tycoon'
Transport Tycoon was first released back in 1994 by MicroProse
News This Modder Has Been Dutifully Fixing GTA Bugs For The Past Decade
"SilentPatch" has recently been made open-source
News A Brand New Video Game Museum Is Opening In The Heart Of Rome
The museum will open later this month on November 30th
Sunday3rd Nov 2024
News SuperSega Boss Rocks Up In His Lamborghini To Beg For Your Pre-Order Cash
Effective crowdfunding?
Saturday2nd Nov 2024
News Polymega Gets Classic Arcade Games Via Physical "Polymega Collection" Series
System Software Update 1.1.32 also incoming
Friday1st Nov 2024
News We Can't Quite Believe That Former Dawn Is Running On Real NES Hardware
"It's not there yet, but with your help, it can be!"
News Yes, id Software's John Carmack Was Barred From Buying A Ferrari
"They strongly disapproved"
Review Toaplan Arcade 4 (Evercade) - Dogyuun Alone Means This Is Worth A Look
I love it when a Toaplan comes together
Review Toaplan Arcade 3 (Evercade) - Batsugun And Truxton II Make This Practically Essential
...as long as you like shmups, of course
News Alan Sugar Wants Your Help To Build An Online Amstrad Museum
Update: Online museum now live
"I’ve loved the video game since the ’90s"
