Joe Bleeps (AKA Joe Heaton) is no stranger to Retro Games Collector and we have featured his Game Boy modding skills before. It is these modding skills, including the addition of backlights and stereo line-out sockets that led multi-talented Joe finding his way into the chiptunes scene and eventually producing tracks and performing himself. He […]
Once again the retro gaming world has been gifted another previously thought to be lost adventure through the continued efforts of enthusiastic retro gamers. Archival group and video game historians Games That Weren’t recently managed to track down the team behind the missing Commodore 64 release Daffy Duck And The Great Paint Caper. After several discussions […]
Just because the Mega CD and Sega Saturn offer full motion video doesn’t mean that Nintendo’s consoles have to miss out. Following in the footsteps of the FMV enabled homebrew MSU-1 chip for the Super Nintendo, the Game Boy Color is now also capable of playing back video files at full speed. To demonstrate this […]
When you watch a fight, there’s a visceral thrill that accompanies being as close to it as possible. Sure, the person on the arena balcony is watching the same fight as the person in the front row, but it’s the latter spectator that’s getting the full experience – who wouldn’t want to see the tortured […]
The Retro Gamer team has access to a new video studio, so we’ve been looking at cool things to do with it – and the first thing we’ve done is to revamp our issue preview videos! In the past, we’ve simply pointed a camera at the magazine as Darran flips through it, but the new format […]
Alex Kidd may be remembered fondly for his antics on the Master System, but sadly that’s about as far as it goes for the Radaxian hero, albeit officially. Fans of both the shortlived series and the Texas Instruments 99 / 4A computers have decided to make amends for Sega’s lack of faith in the protagonist, […]