When I first saw Street Fighter III, at the bottom of Sega World in the late Nineties, I instinctively hated it. Sure, it had Ryu and Ken, but I didn’t know who Dudley and Alex were, and wasn’t entirely sure why I should care. Street Fighter Alpha 3, which was just across from it, was […]
This post is written by Jake Parr. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, released in 2002 by Io Interactive, is the best-selling Hitman game to date. Compared to the notoriously cheesy and dated Hitman: Codename 47 which was exclusive to the PC, Hitman 2 made its way to the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Xbox as well. Campy writing, silly voice […]
This time on #RCFM: our intrepid hosts dedicate the entire RetroCollect FM episode towards responding to your intriguing and sometimes odd questions. Ladies & Gentlemen we bring you the answers you’ve all been waiting for on Re-Quest II.
The PS2 can sometimes get a bit of a bum rap from fans of other systems. Sure, there’s a whole load of crap in its large library, and focus groups evidently had their way with some portion of what remains. But then you remember bold, innovative games like Frequency and remember why it was such […]
Upon arrival on the Nintendo 64 in 1999, nobody really expected Super Smash Bros to become such a big hit amongst fighting game communities. With its later sequels become staple inclusions in tournaments worldwide, gamers have been fine tuning their fighting skills to become the best Nintendo brawler around. With the rules ever changing and […]
We’re sad to say that the era of meeting up with friends to battle and trade through link cables is long gone. That said, those still hoping for this traditional method of multiplayer gaming are in luck. The newly announced TCPoke project allows those with the right hardware to trade amongst themselves through the internet […]
As a retro gamer you will have no doubt in your gaming life encountered troubles trying to get an older console to run on a modern display. From no signal whatsoever to disappointing quality, the sad reality is that our gaming past isn’t built for HD Televisions – or is it? A new adapter is […]
Several years ago an early preview of a Dragon Force II fan translation patch was released by Verve Fanworks. Although making the Sega Saturn title more playable, a lot of the dialogue was yet to be translated including the game’s all important story. After what is thought to be eight years in the making, the […]
I recently got into the Neo Geo scene by acquiring a friend’s collection. I now have 30 Neo Geo AES games and an AES console with 2 joysticks. I invited a friend over to try some of the games out, since most of them are co-op, and the first game we played through was a […]
There’s nothing worse than booting up one of your favourite titles only to find your save game has been lost due to a backup-battery running out of juice. While there are methods available to backup your efforts before the inevitable end of a battery’s life, an all new USB solution has just been released allowing […]