Nintendo has just announced the release of the SNES Mini. Rumours of its existence have been circulating for months, but Nintendo has finally unveiled the machine and it come with a stunning array of titles. Although there are only 21 games (no doubt due to their size compared to NES releases) each and every one […]
We’re back with some hands-on discussion about Sonic Forces and Sonic Mania, directly from post-E3! Join David The Lurker, Cinossu, Bartman, Neo Hazard, Overlord, and InstantSonic in the discussion about what is considered the best chicken tenders you’ve never had! https://www.sonicretro.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/retrocast_06_19_2017_final.mp3 The post Retrocast Season 2 Episode 2 – The 3 E’s appeared first on Sonic Retro.
Inside SEGA’s booth were a dozen demo stations for both Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces making their first and last E3 appearance. Con-goers did their best to pilfer posters given out any way they can. E3 was packed this year due to the convention allowing the public to enter for the first time in years which means the lines […]
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It’s hard to believe that Sonic Mania is only a short two months away. It seems like only yesterday the game was first announced, a magical look at the Sonic experience that could have been on the Sega Saturn. When the digital pre-order trailer came out a couple weeks ago, some assumed that very little […]
What do you do when you have not one but two major releases coming out featuring the world’s most famous hedgehog? You spoil your audience by giving them a ton of information, whetting their appetite for what’s to come. And what better time to do that than at E3? Slated for release during the 2017 […]
Back in April this year we asked the listeners to help us put together the Maximum Power Up Top 50 games. Each of our hosts put forward their favourite games to get the list started and then with all the other listener votes the list stood at over 450 games!
Microsoft’s E3 conference yesterday evening was interesting for a number of reasons – the new and terrifyingly powerful Xbox One X was unveiled, we saw new games and for some reason, they even wheeled out a car. But for retro gaming fans, the biggest news was that Microsoft will be expanding the Xbox One’s backwards […]
Creating Caverns I wrote about creating rooms back in part 3 of this series and how I began to store the room data in memory. But of course, rooms in the game have to fit together to form a world in which the character will explore on their journey. With my game I thought it […]
Over the last decade a plethora of classic consoles and computers have been gifted aftermarket solutions to playing games without the need of original game cartridges or discs. From flash cards to compact disc emulators, there are so few systems out there still in need of a future-proof solution. This has left the talented developers […]