News for retro home video game consoles
One of the best things about the Evercade project, ever since the initial handheld launched, is that it caters directly to a particular type of gamer who is becoming increasingly frustrated with the state of modern gaming — more specifically, the type of gamer who still romanticises the idea of “just buy a game and [...]
Rather delightfully announced through a retro-style “tips line”, Blaze has confirmed that the next addition to the ever-growing Evercade library is cartridge 24: Gremlin Collection 1. Gremlin Collection 1 features six games from the 8, 16 and 32-bit eras, including some absolute timesinks that threaten to keep you busy for hours at a time. So [...]
There’s been some discussion on the reasons why we might romanticise retro games, game preservation and particularly the idea of “just buy a game and play” recently. Specifically, it was prompted by this tweet from Matt Gardner, editor of GameTripper and games writer at Forbes: Anyone else getting bored of every version of this argument? [...]
Back In The Day, as we like to say, gaming on home computers and consoles often involved a fair amount of compromise, since there wasn’t really a single “perfect” system. The inherent limitations of each and every platform meant that there wasn’t a “one size fits all” approach to development — and in many cases, [...]
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! NFTs suck and, pretty much without exception, the people pushing NFTs suck too. They’d [...]
Doubtless you’ve seen Monster Joysticks of various descriptions around by now — but the question is, of course, whether or not they’re worth shelling out for. Although emulation is super-convenient to get one’s retro gaming fix these days — particularly if you want to make videos or take screenshots — there’s something wonderful about playing [...]
Reckon you know your retro gaming, do ya? Then try your hand at the inaugural Retrounite General Retro Gaming Knowledge Quiz! Ten retro gaming quiz questions, this time around mostly focusing on the early days of the games industry in the west. Can you get ’em all right? Challenge the inaugural Retro Gaming Knowledge Quiz [...]
As another chaotic year draws to a close, the first Evercade VS units are finally starting to get into the hands of Founders — those who purchased the special edition black console that comes with extra goodies, including six game cartridges. For those still waiting, we thought you might be curious to check out what [...]
As someone who enjoys both retro and modern games, there’s one retro title that I find myself returning to more often than any other — a game that I absolutely devoured back on its original release, and which I still play regularly now in a variety of contexts, both on original hardware and on emulation [...]
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! Arcade game preservation is, as we’ve previously discussed, super important. And one of the [...]