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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....
8 Bit Adventures 2 – The Gem That Hooked PC Gamers Comes to Consoles
11th September, 2024 - Australian developer Critical Games released their hit JRPG 8-Bit Adventures 2 on PC last year. Flushed from its success, and the critical fanfare it received from media, they’re eager to announce that the console versions - PlayStation...
Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!
Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while...
Super Charge Bros Achieves Goal on Kickstarter in Less Than 24 Hours
Dallas, TX –September 6, 2024– Independent publisher The Retro Room Games has announced that the Kickstarter campaign for Super Charge Bros went live and has reached its goal in less than 24 hours. The accomplishment of this goal will help the team in the production...
Five Modern Games/IP That Would Be Well-Served With Retro-Reboots
So many franchises today focus on delivering high-end visual experiences to tell their stories. They often forget that people played their games when visuals weren’t at a premium, because they were easy to play and had a level of fun needed to inspire long gameplay...
STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – SEPTEMBER 2024
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: The Uncanny X-Men: [embedded content] Don’t be in “Danger” of missing out. A very limited number of The...
Sterns Unveils Images for new “The Uncanny X-Men” Cabinet
On September 4th, Stern Pinball confirmed the opening for sales of its new cabinet based on The Uncanny X-men. Specifically, this cabinet is based on the Days of Future Past and Mind out of Time stories from 1981. Though the art is based on comics from that era of the...
New On Antstream This Week: Worms Armageddon: Motor Mash
Two classic PS1 titles join the library just as Antstream are about to launch on PlayStation. As Antstream prepare to launch their retro streaming service on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, two PS1 titles join the Antstream library, bringing top-down racing and...
Bring in Your Bounty! Limited Run Games Brings STAR WARS
APEX, North Carolina — Limited Run Games and Aspyr have teamed up to bring STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™ to players with an all-new physical release. Standard, Premium, and Master Editions will be available to pre-order for four weeks beginning on Friday, September 6th,...
Mother: Cognitive Dissonance and the Recursive Nature of Retro
Retro gaming and its fandoms have been around for quite some time. So long, in fact, that in the year 2024, we are at the point where the retro appreciation projects of past eras are now, themselves, retro in their own right. Such is the case of Mother: Cognitive...
Stern Pinball’s The Uncanny X-Men
The Uncanny X-Men Pinball Machine CLICK HERE Rally Heroes in the Past to Save the Future in Stern Pinball and Marvel's All-New "The Uncanny X-Men”! Based on the legendary X-Men “Days of Future Past” and “Mind out of Time” comic book stories originally from 1981,...
Atari’s Lunar Lander Beyond | The 2024 Reimagining of the Arcade Original
In this narrative-centric revival of Atari’s classic IP, players are placed in the shoes of a newly appointed captain of the Pegasus corporation with the task of leading a fleet of landers. What begins as a simple task of completing risky (but standard) landing...
Five Comic Book Characters That Would Have Been Great for Retro Games
The What Ifs in video game history keep the lights on in gamers’ heads and the imaginations burning. The thought of the number of concepts that never see the light of day is staggering. With over 40 years of consoles and games in video game history to look back on,...
Atari THE400 Mini’s THECXSTICK: Does it Have Problem & Can it be FIXED?
Atari brings the computer age home. Again! Welcome back to the Atari 8-bit world of computing! The powerful Atari 400 set a new standard of capability with its release in 1979, and along with its subsequent models, has been loved by gamers and computer enthusiasts for...
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...
New On Antstream This Week: B.O.B. and Premier Manager 98
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...
Nostalgic Gaming: Retro Games Are Making a Comeback
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, it's no surprise that video game sales have increased. What is unexpected, though, is the number of old games that are making a comeback. Perhaps it's because so many of us have nostalgic feelings for our youth, for simpler times. Many...
Antstream Arcade Retro Gaming History: The Nintendo Famicom
Here at Antstream Arcade, we’re big fans of the Nintendo Famicom, or the Nintendo Entertainment System, as it’s known to Western audiences. Today marks the 41st anniversary of this iconic console’s debut, so join us as we delve into the history behind the Famicom and...
Q*bert 1983 Tabletop Restoration | Vintage Parker Brothers Arcade Machine
Tabletop arcade toys were all the rage in the early ’80s. Coleco was well known for its tabletop machines (Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.), but slightly lesser known were those by Parker Brothers. In 1983 they released this version of Q*bert by Gottlieb. Jon...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Rob McCallum
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Rob McCallum whose documentary is displayed on card number 585 from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. Rob is the writer and director of "Nintendo Quest", a documentary following one his friends on a quest to collect ALL North...
Nintendo 64 Quest – The Most Unofficial N64 Documentary Ever
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 or...
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...
7-Eleven Slurpee + Tetris Handheld is SOLD OUT and in HIGH DEMAND!
You may remember last year when 7-Eleven was running a Pac-Man promotion collaborating with Namco Bandai. Well, they’re at it again this year, but this time around they’ve partnered with Tetris on the occasion of the 40th anniversary celebration. They’ve got hats...
Atari and PLAION Announce the Atari 7800+ Game Console
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atari, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, and PLAION, a global leading publisher and developer of video games, are proud to announce the Atari 7800+ – a faithful...
