If you’ve been following Kickstarter projects lately, and it seems to be increasingly vital to do so as a fan of retro games, you might have noticed a futuristic racing project called GRIP gaining attention. If not, take a look at the video above. The goal is CAD$657,000 and the campaign runs until 10th September. […]
Back in 1998 we all became fully-fledged photographers thanks to Nintendo’s revolutionary Game Boy Camera. Once equipped with the accompanying Game Boy Printer, any snap could be turned into a stamp-sized print to keep. In today’s digital era though, getting these photographs off the accessory is tricky feat – or at least it used to […]
In the world of cinema, the term ‘development hell’ is regularly bandied about when describing a production that has been passed from director, to studio, to producer – often with the cast being changed drastically.
So it turns out that Sonic appeared in another game aside from Rad Mobile before he’d star in his own game. Youtube personality Guru Larry found out that his first appearance was actually in the incredibly obscure Amiga game The Adventures of Quik & Silva. The game was developed by Factor 5 under the pseudonym […]
To the untrained eye the Nintendo Game Boy Player adapter for the GameCube provides a pretty decent experience of handheld games on the big screen. In reality though, the software provided on the accompanying disc which is needed to load cartridges suffers from countless issues and drawbacks – duplicate frames, blurry visuals, and dim colouring. […]
So a week has gone by since we streamed the Hero Story of Sonic Adventure 2 – and what a stream it was! Many ups, many downs, and we somehow miraculously managed to start at 20:00 and finish at 22:00 with the credits ending. Exactly two hours! Whether that will happen again this time is […]
Despite there being no more official releases for our beloved classic consoles, one of the best aspects of being a retro gamer is seeing new discoveries of our gaming past being uncovered. From unreleased video games to fan translation projects, it’s never quiet where retro gaming is concerned. One of the latest findings within the […]
The Dreamcast era was a special moment for many a SEGA fan. At the time, it was the company’s last great hope, but soon transformed into its swan song. For fans of the SEGA brand, even if the system had no hope on tackling the PlayStation behemoth, it was an unbridled time for ingenuity and […]
There have been quite a few ‘new housing for vintage computer/console’ Kickstarter campaigns of late but this one caught our attention because it dares to be a little bit different. Let me elaborate… With less than a week to go at the time of writing this particular campaign by Philippe Lang is to produce new […]
The latest issue of Retro Gamer is available today, from all good newsagents as well as imagineshop.co.uk and greatdigitalmags.com. So let’s take a look inside! Our cover story is a world exclusive interview with Yu Suzuki on the making of the arcade classic Space Harrier. Back in the big leagues after helming gaming’s biggest ever […]