Chrono Trigger: The Dream Project – by Steve Juon

by Steve Juon | Jun 22, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview

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

by William Schwartz | Jun 21, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Bookshelf, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews

  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 Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest Demo Is Now Live on Steam

by Todd Friedman | Jun 19, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

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​

by Todd Friedman | Jun 19, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

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

by William Schwartz | Jun 19, 2026 | 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Bookshelf, Console/Handheld, Reviews

  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...

HOT NEWS as Ghosts’n Goblins has arrived as a Commodore Amiga AGA edition via JOTD!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 17, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

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...