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HAMSTER Corporation | “Arcade Archives 2 TEKKEN” Releases June 25 on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
"TEKKEN" is a 3D fighting game released by NAMCO LIMITED (current Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1994. In The King of Iron Fist Tournament “fighters” with their own hidden agendas clash to determine who possesses the ultimate fist. The game features a...
Bizzare JRPGS – by Matthew Floyd
People who play Japanese role-playing games, such as myself, have become somewhat desensitized to the strangeness that these games can evoke. After all, there are very few genres where pre-teen kids are frequently flung into life-threatening circumstances, and all...
Introducing the Sonic the Hedgehog 35th Anniversary Legacy Cartridge Collection
35 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog! The story of Sonic the Hedgehog is the story of the 1990s. Born of a brilliant union between cutting-edge console technology and of-the-era super radical attitude, Sonic’s iconic design and in-your-face personality quickly solidified...
Jersey Jack Pinball and SEGA® Announce the Official Sonic the Hedgehog ™ Pinball Machine
CHICAGO – June 23, 2026 – Today, Jersey Jack Pinball and SEGA announce Sonic the Hedgehog Pinball, a high-speed adventure ready to electrify the arcade. Players join Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy and friends as they race through iconic levels, collect rings, and...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – “ZapCristal” Cristal Laboy
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features “ZapCristal” Cristal Laboy, who is displayed on card number 3968, from the Superstars of 2021 Collection. Cristal is host of her own YouTube Channel with over 6,000 subscribers and counting. Her passion for video games is...
Versions of a Burial: The Atari Landfill Excavation in Museums, Part 2
What Museums Do: Versions The certificate, in other words, answers the wrong question — but it isn’t alone in that. Every museum holding these materials has to decide what question it’s trying to answer, and that’s where Latour and Lowe become most useful. They build...
Chrono Trigger: The Dream Project – by Steve Juon
So you’re thinking about playing Chrono Trigger. Your friends and peers have already told you it’s the greatest JRPG ever made, but you were born too late to experience it in its heyday on Super Nintendo. It only gets worse if you decide you want to live that...
A review of The History of Silent Hill
Earlier this year, Pen & Sword Books released The History of the Pokémon Games, which I reviewed here. At the same time, they released the much less obviously marketable The History of Silent Hill by Samantha Morris. Similar titles notwithstanding, these...
“The Brickade” – Fully Functioning Lego Arcade Machine
Holy Moly. That is all I have to say on this one of a kind Lego build. I literally spent a half hour talking with the creators and being mesmerized by the look and feel of the arcade machine. I went to the Brick World convention in Schaumburg, IL this past weekend...
A Study of: Miracle Warriors – by Brian Lesyk
If you were yearning for a solid role-playing game in the late 80s and resided in North America and happened to own a Sega Master System console, you were certainly in the right place at the right time. As luck would have it, you were unknowingly on the cusp of being...
Atari 7800: What Went Wrong?
During the early days of home consoles, Atari absolutely dominated the market, with its popular Atari 2600 VCS and a slew of games. Five years after the 2600's release, Atari tried to mirror that success with its next-generation console, the 5200. Unfortunately, a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Nolan Bushnell
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Nolan Bushnell, who is displayed on card number 165, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Nolan can also be seen on card number 821 and 1333. Nolan is the founder of Atari and Check E’ Cheese as well as over 20 other...
The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest Demo Is Now Live on Steam
Independent games publisher Retroware is excited to announce that the free Steam demo for The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest is available to download now. The demo offers players their first public hands-on look at the completely rebuilt version of the game — a...
Lethal Wedding’s New Dev Vlog Pulls Back the Curtain on the Genesis Co-op Shooter’s Creation
Creative-first publisher Mega Cat Studios has released a new developer vlog for Lethal Wedding, the upcoming 16-bit co-op run-and-gun shooter for Sega Genesis that has already surpassed 250% of its Kickstarter funding goal. Click here for the KICKSTARTER Clocking in...
A review of Red Dead Redemption from Boss Fight Books
As far as "retro" games go, Red Dead Redemption is kind of pushing it. The 2010 open world game was already released well into the modern AAA game production environment. Matt Margini's tome from Boss Fight Books implicitly acknowledges how this is a different...
The Origins of SNK’s Hardest Run ‘n Gun
Run 'n gun arcade games were a staple of the 90s arcade scene, offering players a combination of challenging gameplay, explosive visuals, and satisfying combat. Similar to side-scrolling shoot 'em ups, but a bit slower paced by comparison, this genre was ideal for...
Versions of a Burial: The Atari Landfill Excavation in Museums, Part 1
There is something quietly vertiginous about walking through an exhibition and finding yourself already inside it. Not a self you remember putting there, but a self distributed across objects, images, words; a self that arrived in the museum before you did, and which...
Dragon Warrior – by Jeremy Parish
If you’re old enough to remember the NES launch in America, you’re likely old enough to remember residual hand wringing in Washington, D.C. about the so-called Cold War “missile gap.” In the 1950s and ’60s, that doctrine stated that the Soviet Union had a numeric...
HOT NEWS as Ghosts’n Goblins has arrived as a Commodore Amiga AGA edition via JOTD!
If you played ' Ghosts'n Goblins ' the first game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise on systems such as the Amstrad, Amiga, Atari, C64 and ZX Spectrum, or the more recent arcade overhaul that was released for the Plus/4. You'll be interested to know that as of just...
Sonic Spectrum Next – Sonic The Hedgehog comes over to the Spectrum NEXT via dave18
Sonic the Hedgehog has made its way onto the ZX Spectrum Next in an exciting new release titled Sonic Spectrum Next, developed by prominent retro community creator dave18. The game is a direct conversion of the classic Sega Master System (SMS) version. This ambitious...
Retro Interview: Zack Johnson Talks ‘West of Loathing’
Old School Gamer's Patrick Hickey Jr. brings out a classic out of his archive and chats with "West of Loathing" developer Zack Johnson to get the skinny on the nifty western RPG that actually plays a bit like "Skyrim." Old School Gamer: What inspired this game? Zack...
Review – Wee Ninja for the Atari Lynx
It is impossible to deny the impact Super Mario Bros had on the gaming landscape when it was released on the original NES, especially on scrolling platform games. For gamers, it set a standard to expect from new platforming games released afterward. For gaming...
The Untapped Market of Japanese Nintendo Game Boy Titles
Let’s give thanks to uncompensated fan translators. As a fan of video games developed in Japan, I am keenly aware of the sheer volume of excellent titles that have yet to be localized in English. Thankfully, when a publisher decides not to translate a certain game,...
JRPG FAN TRANSLATIONS – by Noah LaPointe
The MSX Japanese home computer system is largely unfamiliar to US audiences, and mayeven fly under the radar of many retro gaming enthusiasts. Elsewhere, it’s a different story. While unsurprisingly commonplace in its native country and in its neighbor South Korea,...
This Day In Video Game History
