A review of Chrono Trigger from Boss Fight Books
It always bears repeating- retro gaming culture is, itself, so old at this point that we can look at retro game appreciation from ten years ago and find tropes about as archaic to us now as the retro games themselves seemed to the people making that content....
An Interview with JSR and the dog that plays Gyromite
Humanity has long pondered the question- can a dog play basketball? Well, speedrunner JSR taught his dog Peanut Butter to do the next best thing- to play baseball. Specifically, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB for the Super Nintendo. If you’re...
On the possibly exaggerated death of romhacking.net
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...
RUMOR: American Pinball to Push Back Debut of Next Game to Avoid Another Release Avalanche
Here’s an interesting rumor to start the week off. Flash back to March of 2023, that month saw an absolute avalanche of new pinball machine reveals. The Texas Pinball Festival featured the first public appearances of Chicago Gaming Company’s Pulp Fiction,...
Work begins on restoration of Square Enix’s early cell phone history
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,...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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