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…
Ask anyone what the PC Engine’s best arcade conversion was and they will always reply ‘R-Type’ with a smug look on their faces. There’s no denying that Irem’s port is an astonishing piece of work, but it’s easy to forget that initially the game was split across two separate HuCards, meaning you had to spend […]
Year Released: 2001 Original Price: £40 Buy It Now For: £15+ Associated magazines: None Why The Pokémon Mini was great: Nintendo’s miniature console was the obvious answer to similar successful devices like Tamagotchi, but was draped in presentation that was typical of Nintendo. It’s small library of games means it’s relatively easy to collect for […]