News for retro home video game consoles
Trilobyte’s The 7th Guest, originally released in 1993, has always had a rather curious, mixed perception, both from a critical and a popular perspective. On the one hand, it was regarded as a “killer app” for the then-new CD-ROM technology that home computers were just starting to get at the time. On the other, longstanding [...]
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest is a remarkable game in a lot of ways. While it has plenty of detractors — some of whose complaints are justified to a certain degree — it’s also an absolutely fascinating game to contemplate when you consider the direction that the series went in its later years. As previously noted, [...]
Old-school handhelds may not be the first place you’d think to look for either horror games or adventure games — but there are occasional examples of both. On the Game Boy, for example, we have “modern retro” title Deadeus, which is great. And on the Atari Lynx, we have Dracula: The Undead. I would not [...]
If you enjoy the earlier incarnations of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game ruleset — particularly the second edition “Advanced” variant — then there’s a wealth of retro fun to be had. The classic D&D PC games from the ’80s and ’90s mostly hold up remarkably well today — and while Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession will [...]
We can’t look back at classic spooky games from retro gaming history without paying homage to Atari’s Haunted House from 1982. Alongside Mattel’s Night Stalker from the same year, this game played a significant role in defining what we now know to be survival horror: games in which you play a fragile player character, have [...]
Today, as part of Spooky Season 2021, we’re going to take a look at 1982’s Night Stalker for the Intellivision, also known as Dark Cavern when it was released for Atari 2600 through Mattel’s M Network label. It’s an Intellivision classic — and coming soon to the Intellivision Collection 1 cartridge for the Evercade — [...]
We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! Today’s list is all about the best horror games in retro gaming — ones [...]
One of the nice things about revisiting old games from a modern perspective is the fact that you can see how certain genres have evolved over time… and sometimes seemingly morphed into different things altogether. The original Castlevania is a great example of this. Far from being your common-or-garden everyday mascot platformer that we saw a fair [...]
Piko Interactive have been doing some great work in game preservation of late. Not only have they been porting old games to new platforms (and indeed other old platforms), but they’ve also been highlighting a bunch of games that are often forgotten by what the world considers to be canonical gaming history. Games like Switchblade. [...]
Do you remember Do You Remember This? Do you remember Do You Remember Do You Remember This? Of course you do. But do you remember Digitiser The Show? Apparently quite a lot of you do, because the Kickstarter for a second series of the chaotic retro gaming-themed YouTube show blasted through its initial goal of [...]