Retro & classics

Retro Time Extension 29 Sept

System 3 Explains Why Evercade Is Getting The Last Ninja Before PlayStation And Xbox - And Why The Antstream Deal Has Gone Sour

"We began discussions with Blaze Entertainment about an alternative route". We've already reported on System 3 boss Mark Cale's mammoth Kickstarter update and how it relates to…

Retro Hardcore Gaming 101 27 Sept

Abalaburn

Like the Tobal series, AbalaBurn: A Battle Legend of Astterica is a 3D fighter that also has an RPG-style story mode. It takes place in a fantasy universe where the fighters hunt…

Retro Video Game History Foundation 24 Sept

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here’s what’s next.

The Video Game History Foundation has added over 5000 total magazines to our digital archive, a major milestone in our project to build a first-in-class video game history…

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Retro Time Extension 29 Sept

Game Boy Classic Tennis Comes To Sega Master System In Full Colour (Including Ref Mario)

Game, Set, Colourmatch. Nintendo's Tennis - one of the first releases for the NES and a U.S. launch title for the Game Boy - has made its way to Sega's 8-bit baby, the Master…

Retro Time Extension 29 Sept

New LEGO Racers Fan Recreation Released, With New Courses, Restored Shortcuts, Online Multiplayer, & More

Step on it! Here's something slightly unexpected — a new fan recreation of High Voltage Software and LEGO Media's cult classic '90s racing game, LEGO Racers , has just been…

Retro Time Extension 29 Sept

Half-Life Dreamcast Has Been Decompiled, Freeing Source Code And Adding Online Multiplayer

'Rise and Shine, Mr. Freeman'. A modder has successfully decompiled the Dreamcast edition of legendary first-person adventure, Half-Life (1998). The project, executed by modder…

Retro Time Extension 29 Sept

Daytona USA Sega 32X Fan Port Is Being Built On The Virtua Racing Deluxe Engine

Daytonaaaaa! Let's Go Away! An interesting technical mash-up has surfaced on the Sega homebrew scene: a 32X port of smash arcade racer Daytona USA (1994) that is basing its build…

Retro Video Game History Foundation 23 Sept

Episode 164: National Virtual Forum for Digital Games in Libraries (DGIL)

Phil Salvador is joined by Dr. Colin Post and Marisa Marzilli from University of North Carolina at Greensboro to discuss their upcoming Digital Games in Libraries (DGIL) National…

Retro Hardcore Gaming 101 22 Sept

Space Gun

After Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt, Taito switched to a sci-fi setting for their next gallery shooter, Space Gun. Much as their previous games had drawn inspiration…

Retro Hardcore Gaming 101 19 Sept

Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers

Classic beat-em-up series like Streets of Rage and Double Dragon saw several revivals in the 21st century, so why not Rushing Beat? Japanese publisher City Connection owns the…

Retro The Digital Antiquarian 18 Sept

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

This article tells the last part of the story of Lemmings . For a while there in the early 1990s, there seemed to be good reason to believe that Lemmings was on its way to…

Retro Hardcore Gaming 101 16 Sept

Scott Pilgrim EX

After Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, some of the staff left Ubisoft to form Tribute Games, who created a number of retro-style titles like Wizorb, Mercenary Kings,…

Retro Hardcore Gaming 101 13 Sept

Zoya

Games developed outside the major production regions of Japan, Europe, and North America are rarely discussed. While titles from countries such as Russia, Ukraine, or even South…

Retro Video Game History Foundation 11 Sept

Episode 163: The Complexities of EULAs

Phil Salvador interviews Amy Thomas, legal expert and author of Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play , about the evolving landscape of digital rights and ownership…

Retro Video Game History Foundation 10 Sept

Library Highlight: Exploring E3 2009 through 1600 photos

This year, we launched multiple collections celebrating the history of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. We want to highlight one exciting item in these collections that we think…

Retro GamesRadar Retro 4 Sept

How to play N64 games

The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old, and the question of how to actually play N64 games today is more relevant than ever. Yes, the short answer involves simply getting hold of…

Retro The Digital Antiquarian 4 Sept

Porsche Unleashed

This Porsche is very much leashed. The one I got wasn’t even a turbo model. I’ve had a running joke with my wife Dorte for almost as long as we’ve been a couple. I reasoned back…

Retro GamesRadar Retro 3 Sept

Faux CRT makers Unico say they're swapping out the questionable AI imagery for real product images

Yesterday, I highted a faux CRT TV by arcade hardware makers Unico that's launching on Kickstarter. It's undeniably early days for the campaign, but the fact it's currently using…

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System 3 Explains Why Evercade Is Getting The Last Ninja Before PlayStation And Xbox - And Why The Antstream Deal Has Gone Sour

Abalaburn

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here’s what’s next.

Game Boy Classic Tennis Comes To Sega Master System In Full Colour (Including Ref Mario)

New LEGO Racers Fan Recreation Released, With New Courses, Restored Shortcuts, Online Multiplayer, & More

Half-Life Dreamcast Has Been Decompiled, Freeing Source Code And Adding Online Multiplayer

Daytona USA Sega 32X Fan Port Is Being Built On The Virtua Racing Deluxe Engine

Episode 164: National Virtual Forum for Digital Games in Libraries (DGIL)

Space Gun

Rushing Beat X: Return of Brawl Brothers

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

Scott Pilgrim EX

Zoya

Episode 163: The Complexities of EULAs

Library Highlight: Exploring E3 2009 through 1600 photos

How to play N64 games

Porsche Unleashed

Faux CRT makers Unico say they're swapping out the questionable AI imagery for real product images