One of gaming’s most popular characters of all time turns 35 today! The Retro Gamer team is celebrating the anniversary of the original arcade release of Pac-Man – Nick’s grabbed the Neo Geo Pocket Color version of the original, and even our managing director is in on the festivities: @RetroGamer_Mag @gamesyouloved And here is the […]
Tamaki, writer for Unseen64, has made a video that sheds light on what went wrong during the development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. And if you assumed that Big Red Button had to put up with a lot of crap that made it unreasonable to expect them to put out a good game, you’d […]
According to various sources online, an unusual arcade machine found itself in the depths of a North American town in the 1980s. Unlike other cabinets, Polybius was reported to have given gamers side effects from night terrors to sudden death. As farfetched as this may round, the urban legend lives on and it’s about to […]
If you haven’t seen our glorious new issue yet, feast your eyes on Oliver Frey’s excellent cover art! Featuring all manner of ships, enemies and weapons from the history of shoot-’em-ups, it leads in to our bluffer’s guide to one of gaming’s oldest genres. So what else is in the issue? Well, we have in-depth […]
Originally the name of the game is called Crazy Money but it can be changed in the future. The concept of the game now is that you collect money to go through the next level. There will be colored doors that can only be opened with matching colored keys, monsters, obstacles to push, etc. The […]
As many of us know, some of those games of the 8-bit era take a very large toll on the most common implement used to control them: the joystick. Yes, some of them just aren’t made to last (Mr Cheetah Annihilator, with your poorly designed plastic shaft, I am looking at you!), but even the […]
The Amstrad GX4000 wasn’t blessed with a huge number of good games (or games of any quality, really), but Navy Seals is one of that tiny minority. Just have a look at it – while you can’t see the reasonable animation, the detail on sprites and backgrounds is surprisingly high thanks to the massive colour […]
Originally released back in 1994, Super Shell Monsters Story (also known as Daikaijū Monogatari) was a Japanese exclusive adventure for the Super Nintendo published by Hudson Soft. Although proving popular enough to see its very own manga series, the title never left the Far East – at least until now. ROM hackers have finally released […]
If you’re yet to experience the RetroN 5, Hyperkin’s all-in-one system is a fantastic offering for retro gamers with limited space. Although equipped with five different cartridge slots compatible with up to nine different systems, it would appear a newer system on the horizon is about to go one better. The newly announced Retro Freak […]
In a similar style to the recently announced Banjo-Kazooie sequel, Metroid also looks set to receive yet another entry in the series, albeit an unofficial one. Metroid: Rogue Dawn is a newly announced prequel built from the ground up by hacking the Nintendo NES original and adding in some stunning new visuals and fantastic features.