Back in May 2013, homebrew developers 1985 Alternativo announced they were creating a new scrolling shooter for the Mega Drive. After a year and a half’s silence, the team has released a stunning new trailer showcasing the fully charged action we’ll soon be enjoying in Antarex on Sega’s classic console.
Starting the year in style, HuCast Games – the publishers behind various brand new releases for the Dreamcast – have announced that an all new platformer is heading to Sega’s fabled console. Alice’s Mom’s Rescue is a traditional 2D adventure featuring the gameplay we all know and love wrapped up in a pixelated package.
We all root for the underdog, don’t we? I still remember being filled with pathos as I stared down at the Neo Geo Pocket Color languishing in the bargain bin in GameStation, looking like an abandoned puppy after Nintendo’s Game Boy Color had won Best In Show. I gave it a loving home and was […]
The Oric-1 may have only had a short commercial life, but that didn’t stop a number of great games appearing on it. We’ve trawled its back catalogue in order to find its best ports and exclusives. How many did you get to play? Xenon 1 Released: 1983 Not to be confused with the Bitmap Brothers’ […]
Everyone loves the rocket-clad creepy crawlies and cape-wearing sheep, right? Well it would appear that a team of Commodore 64 developers are working hard on recreating Team 17’s classic Worms for the vintage computer under the new title Grubz.
These days, you can’t shake a Wiimote without hitting a multiplayer mini-game collection, but when Bishi Bashi Special introduced its inspired lunacy to a European audience it really did make you gawp and grin in equal measure. Suddenly you were replacing severed lips on sumo wrestlers, differentiating between aliens and girls in hot-tubs and helping […]
Over the past few years, we have covered a variety of stories about video games being played on devices that were never intended to play video games. From everything from pianos to ATM machines, from e-Readers to calculators, it seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Up for auction on ebay UK is this very interesting collection of rare Sinclair prototypes which were given to the seller’s father in an office clear out by Sir Clive himself. These prototypes are all non-working design-stage models of the ZX80, ZX81 and Spectrum plus some models of unreleased computers. These prototypes shed some light […]
There are two cars that I’d love to own. One is a Ferrari Testarossa convertible from Out Run (which I’m reliably told, doesn’t actually exist) the other is the new model Volkswagen Beetle that was first released in 1997. When I first saw the new look Beetle it just looked like an amazingly fun car […]
Good evening everyone out there… Remember us? As many of our loyal readers and followers are quite aware, there has been more than a small lack of updates here at Retro Game Network over the past few months, and we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…