Unless you’ve won the lottery or happen to belong to a family that’s rich in oil reserves, the chances of owning a totally complete Neo Geo AES collection are depressingly slim. The cult console may not have a massive library of games but some of its more desirable or rarer titles have price tags comfortably […]
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Sega Announces They Will Be Releasing a New “Mega Drive Mini” Console Sometime This Year

In recent years, a common trend for retro gamers is that consoles from our youth are getting the “mini” treatment. Consoles like the NES, Super NES, Atari 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision, have all been given this treatment so far, in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sega to Release Remastered Editions of Dreamcast Classics “Shenmue” & “Shenmue II”

When gamers think about Sega’s final entry in the console market, the Dreamcast, a variety of different titles come to mind. Not only did the system offer quality arcade ports of the era, it also had other games that would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cyan Worlds to Re-Release the Entire “Myst” Series, For The Franchises 25th Anniversary

“Myst” was one of those video games, that if you owned any type of video game console or computer in the mid 1990s, you have played it. It was released on nearly every possible device that housed a CD-ROM drive, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twin Galaxies Strips “The King of Kong” Billy Mitchell Of His High Score Title Due to Cheating

Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks video game world records (assisting the famous Guinness Book of World Records), and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions, praised video gamer Billy Mitchell, for achieving the highest score of all time in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twin Galaxies Disqualifies Billy Mitchell

Photo by Datagod. Used under CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Twin Galaxies has today removed Billy Mitchell’s scores from its database and banned him from entering new competitive scores, based on disputed Donkey Kong scores from 2010. The organisation opened with the following statement: “Based on the complete body of evidence presented in this official dispute […]
DvD Releases Two New Japanese to English Translations for Famicom Disk System Games

DvD Translations is a group of dedicated video gamers and hobbyists that translates games that were originally released only in the Japanese language into English. Unless you are fortunate enough to be bilingual in both languages, in most cases, games […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New ROM Hack Brings Updated Graphics and Sound to NES Classic “Castlevania” Via Mesen

If you enjoy the “Castlevania” series, you know how devoted your fellow fans are. For many decades, the people at Konami have given us so many amazing games in the Belmont universe. In more recent years however, this hasn’t been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“SNK 40th Anniversary Collection” Coming to Nintendo Switch in Fall, 2018 by NIS America

Japanese based company SNK has a unique history when it comes to video games. They made some amazing and ultimately legendary arcade titles, producing a total of 23 stand alone cabinets between 1979 and 1986. They were also successful in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The RGN Files” Podcast #10 Uploaded; Details About “VGM on FM” Episode #8, Tonight at 7pm

Good morning fellow gamers, and happy Monday to you all! Another week of news has come and gone, and that brings us a brand new edition of “The RGN Files” podcast. Miss something in the world of retro gaming last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
