We all love our ZX Spectrums, but even we get pangs of jealousy when we see our friends and their shiny new PC rigs. Sometimes, 48K of RAM and a Z80 CPU just doesn’t cut it. If you’re in the same boat though, don’t worry! As part of LG’s brand-spanking new UltraWide Festival 2015, you […]
We can’t adequately explain this, so we just thought we’d leave it here. Enjoy Wolf, Jeffry and Akira having a bit of a shimmy in their classic Virtua Fighter models. What does it all mean? Why has this been done? Who knows, but consider this: Sega has Hatsune Miku music games and Space Channel 5 […]
Another day, another retro crowdfunding project – but this time it’s a little different, as the people behind the Retro VGS want to bring back cartridge-based consoles. The use of the retro medium is designed to offer users an experience with “no patches or scratches” – ownership of a durable physical copy of a game, which won’t be made […]
Although Nintendo has already proved it has no issue with remaking its classics for the Wii U, the closest gamers have got to playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in high definition is through its 3DS remake. In an attempt to remedy this, one fan of the series has begun recreating the game […]
We’ve all enjoyed carrying around our favourite Mega Drive and Super Nintendo classics in our pocket thanks to the various Android apps and jailbroken equivalents for Apple iOS. As of today though, those interested in the more obscure side of gaming will be pleased to know that Panasonic 3DO emulation has arrived on the Google […]
One of the few remaining Coelacanths in the Sonic series is coming to a PC near you soon. Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car is a relatively obscure arcade title where the player drives in a car booth and assists a police clad Sonic. It’s also one of the earlier instances of a fully voiced Sonic early […]
With a book about software publishing house Ocean, an upcoming Kickstarter-funded Commodore 64 in Pixels book and a highly popular ZX Spectrum in Pixels duo already their belts, there seems to be no stopping the publishing powerhouse that is Fusion Retro Books and its owner Chris Wilkins. Our reviews of the first two volumes of […]
Kind of Amiga gaming related, this might come in handy for some of you: Turrican for the Genesis is a okay port, but have 2 big problems: The fantastic Soundtrack was translated very bad. When you collide with an enemy, the health gauge is drained 4 times faster than the original and this make the […]
The early days of the Nineties fighting game boom were very strange. Despite the fact that Street Fighter II had shown the standard conventions that would eventually be adopted by the wider genre, developers were still trying new things with the genre. Knuckle Heads from Namco is an excellent example – a brief look at it would convince […]
Cook & Becker teamed up with SEGA some time ago to sell new official art prints based on SEGA franchises. So far we’ve gotten fantastic new art of games like Phantasy Star, Shinobi, and Shenmue. And now it’s time for one based on Sonic. The artwork, made by Nuclear Throne artist Paul Veer, features both old and […]