We’re fond of exercises in futility at Retro Gamer, and our favourite is playing bad games hoping they somehow become good. It’s just so tempting! Take Shanghai Warriors here as an example. On the surface, this looks like it could be a solid C64 beat-’em-up – there’s a decent number of enemies on screen, you […]
It’s amazing what homebrew developers can now do. Not only have we seen all new titles hitting our favourite consoles from decades ago, but also exclusive titles venturing their way onto different platforms. Of the latter, the fast paced Super Nintendo racer F-Zero has somehow made its way onto the Mega Drive.
Although the Super Nintendo CDRom add-on may have never seen the light of day, it hasn’t stopped homebrew developers from giving us a near identical equivalent. Using the custom built MSU-1 chip, a CD Audio upgrade has been released for Mega Man X3.
As mentioned in our last cable review, with the availability of ever-cheaper high end analogue CRT displays such as the Sony PVM/BVM and the fact that LCD/LED TVs are now lacking in terms of retro input, retro gamers are looking to utilise the RGB output on many of their consoles and computers. SCART remains at […]
One of my favorite side scroller games of the 1980s was without a doubt “Adventure Island” for the NES. Based off of the Sega arcade (and later Master System) title “Wonder Boy”, this long lasting series for both the Sega […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Name: Gareth Hamilton Location: County Armagh, Northern Ireland Favourite Game: The Secret of Monkey Island Favourite System: Amiga 500 I am 30 years old. I live at home with my mother and work full time, in a job I don’t like, to earn money for a hobby that some people find worrying for a grown […]
It’s been a long time coming, as we first saw screenshots of the game way back in January of last year, but we’ve finally seen footage of Watermelon’s forthcoming Mega Drive beat-’em-up Project Y – and it looks astonishing. The game displays large, colourful sprites and extremely detailed backgrounds throughout the video, while the music […]
It was way back in the summer of 2013 that we first brought you the story of a PC homebrew called “Sacred Line“. This original PC title, first released in February of 2013, is a described as being a part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Watermelon Games may have been in the retro gaming news an awful lot as of late, but there’s a good reason for that – they’re keeping the scene alive with high quality brand new releases for our beloved systems. Since late 2012 the retro developers have been working on a spiritual successor to Streets of […]
With Sega having so many classic arcade games of its own, it perhaps surprising to learn that some of the Master System’s best conversions were actually of non-Sega games. Nevertheless, Bubble Bobble, The New Zealand Story, R-Type, Gauntlet and Klax are just a few of the gems that were a massive improvement of Sega’s own […]