by William Schwartz | Jul 2, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Interviews, Retro Computing, The Story Of...
The history of retro gaming isn’t an especially long one, only going back maybe fifty years, at least if we limit ourselves to retro games as being computers rather than just complex machines. Preservation of this material can be challenging and thankless. All...
by Old School Gamer | Jul 1, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release
50 Years of Boss Fights celebrates the history of video game bosses, starting from the first boss in 1974. The book features interviews and insights from the developers who helped to make the bosses as memorable as they are, including those who created the first ever...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 1, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Interviews, The Story Of...
Released in 1990 on PC and 1991 on the Sega Genesis, King’s Bounty is a strategy/RPG that even the most hardcore of gamers may have missed when it was originally hit shelves. However its place among the greatest strategy/role-playing games of all time should never be...
by Todd Friedman | Jul 1, 2024 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Press Release
ZPF is a new game being developed for the good old SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis game consoles, made by the designer and developer of Tänzer. The game can be best described as being a good old fashioned horizontal shooter. Known in the community as a horizontal shmup...
by William Schwartz | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews
An important foundational aspect of retro gaming as a hobby is the nostalgia factor. Which is to say, how we remember the games we played as kids informs much of our appreciation of them in the present day. Even when, as it happens, our memories are completely wrong....
by Indie Retro News | Jun 24, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Night Mission Pinball Extended wasn’t the only game to grace our Commodore 64 screens this weekend, as looking through my emails earlier today, I saw that Megastyle had released the C64 sliding puzzle styled game of Gridlock. A game in which the object of each...