News for retro home video game consoles
Rockstar, taking time out from their busy schedule of counting their money, fleecing people for microtransactions and working out precisely how many more generations of hardware they can get away with releasing the exact same game on, recently put out a “definitive” trilogy of GTA remasters, covering three of the most popular titles in the [...]
We’re not all grizzled retro gaming veterans — some of us are new to the hobby. So our Getting Into Retro Gaming guides are here to help you get up and running as soon as possible! If there’s any topic that you’d like to learn more about, be sure to let us know and we’ll [...]
Nichibutsu’s 1980 shoot ’em up Moon Cresta is not an arcade game I have a ton of familiarity with, having never really come across it while I was growing up gaming. The closest I came was what I have come to learn was an Atari 8-bit clone of the format known as Space Eggs, developed [...]
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! It seems at any given point, there’s at least one particular retro console whose [...]
A lot of classic arcade games have had numerous rereleases over the years — both in compilations such as Namco’s excellent Namco Museum series, and as standalone downloads like Hamster’s never-ending Arcade Archives franchise. One that we haven’t seen for quite some time is Pole Position — the game which, alongside Sega’s Turbo, helped to [...]
The upcoming Intellivision Amico is, it’s fair to say, still a bit of an unknown quantity. While the idea behind it it sound — the idea of a console that focuses specifically on people getting together in the same room to enjoy games together worked very well for everything from the good ol’ Atari 2600 [...]
What are the best racing games for Nintendo’s 16-bit powerhouse, the Super NES — or the Super Famicom, if you want to be all Japanese about it? There were quite a few, as it happens, so today we’re going to take a good look as a selection of them — including some established classics and [...]
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! The Evercade VS home console is just around the corner — and there are [...]
Sports games aren’t popular with collectors because everyone thinks they suck. But there are some hidden gems out there to enjoy — and their lack of popularity means you can pick ’em up pretty cheap, too! Let’s explore this unloved genre! Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64, originally released in 2000, is the best Mario Tennis [...]
If you’re interested in retro gaming, there are a lot of ways to get started now — and a lot of options that are a lot more friendly to your budget than you might assume. One particularly budget-friendly option — it’s free — is Antstream Arcade, a streaming-based service that allows you to play a [...]