New On Antstream This Week: B.O.B. and Premier Manager 98

by Antstream Blog | Aug 28, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Antstream

A quirky robot run and gun platformer football team management sim are this week’s newly added titles. The Antstream library just keeps growing as more titles are added. This week we have the robot run and gun platformer B.O.B. (SNES) and the chance to manage a...

Nintendo 64 Quest – The Most Unofficial N64 Documentary Ever

by Todd Friedman | Aug 22, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

CLICK HERE FOR KICKSTARTER Follow video game collector Jay Bartlett on an adventure to collect all 296 N64 games in 14 days with no online purchases! After more than a year of filming we’re offering the exclusive chance to own our 13-episode doc series on disc...

On the possibly exaggerated death of romhacking.net

by William Schwartz | Aug 21, 2024 | 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming

On August 1st, Nightcrawler left a bombshell of an announcement on romhacking.net, moving the site to news only and releasing its database to the Internet Archive in the wake of financial and legal hardship. For the typical retro gamer who enjoys rom hacks, whether...

World premiere of BOULDER DASH® 40th Anniversary

by Old School Gamer | Aug 13, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Press Release

August 13, 2023 – BBG Entertainment, the Munich-based game developer and publisher, is enriching the popular Retro Area (Hall 10.2) at this year’s gamescom with a spectacular line-up of classics in original and reboot format as well as an innovative quiz game...

Full Motion Video Games

by GenX Grownup | Aug 11, 2024 | 1980s, 2000s, GenX Grownup, Podcast of the Week

About This Episode Photo-realism in video games is commonplace now, but for decades, storage and technology limitations meant blocky figures were the best we could get. But as the tech evolved, the use of actual video started to enhance the game experience. In this...

Work begins on restoration of Square Enix’s early cell phone history

by William Schwartz | Aug 7, 2024 | 2000s, Console/Handheld

When most people think of retro games, they don’t think of phone games. Retro games, after all, are broadly speaking from a time before smart phones. But then again, phone games existed before smart phones did. Such is the case with Japanese feature phone games,...