Xevious 128k – Arcade classic Xevious gets a 128k edition for the Amstrad CPC via Easter Egg
There's one type of genre that I loved playing in the arcades and more so on my home console, and that is the shoot em up genre! You know the type, enemy waves coming at you at all sides, your ship blasting across the landscape with adrenaline flowing as you try to...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jerry Buckner
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jerry Buckner, who currently is displayed on card number 1345, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Jerry is also featured on cards 1832, 1981, 2388. As a musician and producer, Jerry Buckner created many memorable music...
Before LucasArts Took Control: The Wild First Decade of Star Wars Games
Today, a Star Wars game arrives carrying decades of expectations. Players know what a lightsaber should sound like and how an X-wing should move. The earliest Star Wars games had none of that inherited design language. During the franchise’s first decade in video...
Micro Machines: Pocket-Sized Racing
For years, kids who wanted to play with little cars had two major brands to choose from: either Mattel's Hot Wheels or Tyco's Matchbox (which, ironically, was purchased by Mattel in 1997). There were other smaller creators, like Johnny Lightning and Maisto, but those...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Zach Kaczor
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Zach Kaczor, who is displayed on card number 99, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Zach is one of the youngest gamers to appear on a Video Game Trading Card. When the card was produced, Zach was 11 years old. He took...
International Amiga Day – The day has come to celebrate the Amiga!
It's time to have an Amiga party as throughout the Commodore Amiga Facebook they are celebrating the 'International Amiga Day 2026' for May 31st, which celebrates over 30 years of Amiga fun! The retro community want to keep the Commodore Amiga name alive and what...
Five Sega Saturn Games That Deserved a Bigger Audience.
The Sega Saturn may not have reached the commercial heights of the Genesis or the PlayStation. However, for those who owned one, it was home to some truly unforgettable gaming experiences. For instance, games like NiGHTS into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon, and Virtua Fighter...
Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal
Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal For 10 Iconic Game Properties; First Up Is Original Script By Matt Reilly & Carl Hampe, With Entertainment 360 Producing Partnering with Entertainment 360, Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio the right...
Gaelco’s lost 90s run-and-gun masterpiece is now available for PC and consoles! Play today!
Biomechanical Toy is a frantic, arcade-style 2D side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer built for retro gaming enthusiasts who crave intense, nostalgic challenges. It delivers a highly unique, imaginative dark-fairytale aesthetic centered on biomechanical toys that have...
Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remakes Confirmed By Bethesda
According to a Press Release From Bethesda Game Studios today, remasters of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 classics, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are on the way. Read a Part of the Announcement Below: THE FUTURE OF FALLOUT Fallout is one of our biggest...
Sticky Business Coming to Switch Physical!
Super Rare Games is joining Spellgarden Games and Assemble Entertainment to bring you Sticky Business! Coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch™! Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories....
Retro Review: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
For over 20 years, Capcom’s Phoenix Wright series has been a diamond in the rough for Nintendo and the newest entry in the series, “Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies” on the 3DS may be the most charming of all. Regardless it doesn’t change the problems that...
Spindle – Nintendo Switch Review – by Todd Friedman
Developed with clear affection for old-school titles like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Spindle marries pixel-perfect visuals with a surprisingly thoughtful narrative about mortality and meaning. But this isn't your typical grim reaper tale. Here, Death...
Retro Review: ‘Wii Fit U’
With over 80 mini-games, GamePad integration and the Wii-Fit meter, “Wii Fit U” manages to expand upon the already solid workout experience provided in the original game. Regardless of if you’re a gym rat or a couch potato, there’s something for everyone in “Wii Fit...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Derek Sorrells
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Derek Sorrells, who is displayed on card number 832, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Derek is also featured on cards 1280, 2158 and 2254. Derek is an old school gamer who loves arcade machines. He grew up in the...
Why Comix Zone Remains One of Sega’s Most Unique Experiments.
In the mid-1990s, the video game industry engaged in a frantic, creative arms race. As the 16-bit era waned and 32-bit technology loomed, developers desperately pushed the boundaries of gaming. Amidst this innovation, Sega released a title that felt less like a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Patrick Hickey, Jr. who is displayed on card number 3258, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough...
Bubble Buddies – A reimagination of Bubble Bobble, arguably the best c64 game ever?
If you enjoyed Taito's Bubble Bobble in the Arcades or at home, then you'll be pleased to know that not only can you still download Dave Retro Forge's graphically superior version of 'Bubble Bobble Remastered' for the C64, or 'Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave', which is a...
A review of Life Is Strange from Boss Fight Books
With a release date of 2015, Life Is Strange is another one of those games that's kind of pushing it in terms of the "retro" designation, although if you've ever seen the game in action, graphics aren't the strong suit and Life Is Strange certainly looks like...
Xi Rao – Student, Curator, Gamer
Xi Rao is a research assistant and PhD student in Technology and Humanities at Illinois Tech. She is interested in social media analysis, information design, as well as fan study. She studies and curates Twitter discussions on games such as #1ReasonWhy and...
Snoop Dogg Debuts Theme for New Backyard Baseball Title, ‘110% Juice’
The song is set to release on digital music outlets on July 15. Multi-platinum recording artist and pop culture icon Snoop Dogg has collaborated with Backyard Baseball’s Playground Productions on the theme track for the game, aptly titled “110% Juice.” "Backyard...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – David Klingler
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features David Klingler, who is displayed on card number 416, from the Superstars of 2013. David created an independent software company called Solanimus which has created games such as Signal to Noise and Crashland. You can view his...
Batter Up! Backyard Baseball is Available Now on Steam
Grab Your Gloves! It’s Game Time! The neighborhood baseball classic is back in action! Backyard Baseballis now available on Steam with more ways to play than ever before. Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions invite you to take the field in 11 remastered...
Steel Ranger 2 – Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!
If you've ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would've known they released the fantastic action adventure game ' Hessian ' for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that must either be avoided or...
Germany’s Video Game Preservation Project Loses Public Funding
Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft website. ...
Thrilling Machine – by Noah LaPointe
When imagining the environmental sounds George Gomez must be used to, it may explain why he doesn’t rest: the erratic flicking of a pinball table’s flippers, the raucous ricocheting of a metal ball desperately trying to escape its containment, and electronic...
Lincity – A SimCity style game is in development for the Amiga 68k by paulthetall
While the Amiga is legendary for its library of fast-paced action, platformers and shoot 'em up's, developer Paulthetall has introduced a change of pace for the platform with his new game called 'Lincity'. A free and open-source construction and management simulation...
Brett’s Bargain Bin – by Brett Weiss
When it comes to cheap yet worthwhile Atari 2600 games, the usual suspects like Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders tend to dominate the conversation. And for good reason: they’re iconic, easy to find, and still offer plenty of arcade fun. In fact, many of...
Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day
Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy...
Arcade Spotlight – by Steve Juon
“I got a pocket full of quarters, and I’m headed to the arcade.” The song Pac-Man Fever embodied my childhood, but the times have changed. Physical arcades are becoming harder to find, and the ones that do exist face numerous challenges: The cost of electricity to...
Museum Games #6 Space Evaders, Or How Ordinary Public Places of Coin-Op Play Challenge Museums
When I visited M05’s Musée Du Jeu Vidéo and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during my university’s spring break in March 2026, I decided to visit London for the day. The urge to see the Design Museum’s “Wes Anderson: The Archives” and “Blitz: The Club that Shaped...
Evercade Publishes Instructional Video On Sharing Physical Games
LETCHWORTH, UK: Evercade, a brand of Blaze Entertainment, has published an informative instructional video on the process of sharing your physical Evercade game cartridges with friends. In this short video, available...
Retro Review: Year Walk: Strange, But Enthralling
If you thought there wasn’t a mature indie title on the Wii U, “Year Walk” may surprise you. After playing through “Year Walk,” a myriad of thoughts will run through your head. Beautiful, intelligent, dizzying and even flat out confusing are a few of the easy...
Four Job Fiesta Hits $10,000 Mark for Charity Drive
Last month, the Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta started its usual summer event. Based around the 1992 Super Famicom Game and its various remakes, the Four Job Fiesta takes a simplifying approach to the job-based role-playing game. Instead of utilizing all 22...
Retro Review: Lost Dimension: The Best Vita RPG
With the kind of story any Manga or Anime fan can jump right into and easily palatable turn-based combat, “Lost Dimension,” developed by Lancarse, the minds behind other Atlus favorites “Etrian Odyssey” and “Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey,” is an enjoyable...
INNOVATIVE LEISURE: A HISTORY OF ATARI – by Leonard Herman
When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced...
Pixel Arcadia – August 24th
Thanks to Time Extension, we just found out about a new tv show? - channel who knows. And the youtube video doesn't tell us much. Retro game marketing company Pixel Helix has announced a digital showcase celebrating retro games, which will air in August. Broadcast in...
The Music of JRPGs – by William Schwartz
The story of JRPG music begins in that same ironic place so many JRPG stories begin, with Final Fantasy for the NES in 1987. After initially being thrown into the game without much explanation, the four warriors of light are rewarded with a bridge to take them further...
Deuteros Resurrected – Strategy PC remake of a classic Amiga/Atari ST game is in the works, first milestone reached!
We haven't featured a PC remake of Ian Bird's Amiga/Atari ST Strategy game Deuteros for awhile, especially as a number of announced remakes of this classic game have been announced and then dropped never to be seen again. Thankfully it looks as if Tony Cheetham has...
Neo Geo Pocket Color: Arcading Gaming in Your Pocket?
When you think about mobile gaming in the 80s and 90s, you are more than likely going to be thinking about some version of the Nintendo Game Boy. Nintendo managed to dominate the handheld market, even with a number of competitors, many of whom had superior technical...