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Podcast of the Week – The Retro Hour
The Golden Age of Atari with Ed Rotberg - The Retro Hour EP337 Published on July 29, 2022 Click here to listen to podcast We're joined by the wonderful Ed Rotberg who was a core member of Atari's coin-op team from 1979 onwards, and worked on classics...
Paul Niemeyer – by Michael Mertes
May 21st, 2022 - It's been a rainy morning on the day of the B.N. Video Game Con, but Paul E. Niemeyer emerges from the car with a smile, and soon after, a hearty laugh as he cracks a joke with NBA Jam announcer Tim Kitzrow as they make their way into the convention...
Arcade Paradise – “A New Challenger”
Arcade Paradise is a love letter to arcades from the creators of Vostok Inc. Kit out your dream arcade with machines from the glory era, from simple vector-based games of the 70s all the way to the early 3D games of the mid-90s. Get a heavy dose of nostalgia with over...
Retro Gaming Events last June – by Ryan Burger
Summer so far has been quieter than some of the past years, as we have taken more time at home working on the magazine and other things all our readers will be finding out in August more about. So, we only have a couple Midwestern events to talk about in this issue....
Interview with Jeff Peters – by Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Midway’s Mortal Kombat franchise is a classic for a variety of reasons. Its lore, gameplay, blood, visuals, the entire package - has made it one of the leaders in the genre for over four decades. But way back during the days of the Sega Genesis, being able to deliver...
Mortal Kombat Book Preview – by David Craddock
Written by David L. Craddock, Long Live Mortal Kombat goes behind the scenes to reveal untold stories from the making of Mortal Kombat 1 through 4 and explores how the franchise impacted popular culture, and is due for publication this fall. In this excerpt from the...
Dragon’s Lair II Time Warp: Amiga Intro Animation redone frame by frame in Personal Paint by Hache
I remember Dragon's Lair very well, from the Amstrad version with the jumping of platforms or trying to stay on the spinning disk without being blown off, or the interactive animated version which appeared as a laserdisc in which you needed to press a specific...
Mortal Kombat – by Todd Friedman
When I was a senior in high school in 1992, I worked in the local bowling alley which had an arcade in the back of the building. Each month or so, the gaming distributor would bring in some new arcade and pinball games that had just come out. There were a lot of...
Mighty Street Fighter – Could this upcoming ‘Street Fighter’ be the next homebrew hit for the Amstrad 128k?
I'm sure many of you remember Street Fighter, a game which originally appeared on the Arcades, and was then ported to pretty much every system you could think of, including such systems as the Amiga, Atari St and even the ZX Spectrum. Well fast forward to today...
iiRcade Report by Brad Feingold
Yes, iIRcade has created a couple different model designs and released them, gave away some hats, shirts, sweatshirts, and other swag. That should be enough for us; we are ready for the next product... Actually, not quite. With some companies, a product is released...
Five Retro Game Industry Standards We’d Love to See Come Back
The video game industry sure has changed since the ‘70s and ‘80s right? With micro-transactions and DLC, games change throughout development and release- a far cry from the old days. In this exclusive list, we old birds at Old School Gamer share five things we’d love...
Super Mario Bros. S – A collaborative fan game available as a download or browser play
I have always had a soft spot for Super Mario Bros, ever since I first played it as a kid all those years ago in America on the NES. Its one of those timeless games that you never can get tired of. Its super simple to learn and control for new players and the gameplay...
Wonderboy – An Arcade game from 1986 as an unofficial Amiga port gets a new tease by Acidbottle
Wonder Boy is a game designed by Ryuichi Nishizawa which started its life as a skateboard rock jumping and axe bashing platformer, that later became the great adventure platformer with RPG elements known as ' Wonderboy in Monster Land '. Both of these games have lived...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Chase the Chuckwagon?
Release Date: 1983 Publisher: Spectravision Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Arcade - Maze Alternate Title: N/A Model #: N/A Rarity: 8 Programmer: Mike Schwartz This is quite possibly the first (and only) example of a video game being based on a television...
1942 – Arcade quality port is still coming to the Amiga with new shown!
In 1984 a great shoot 'em up was released for the Arcades by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you not only had to shoot down enemy planes including bombers, but you could also perform awesome rolls while collecting power ups. Thankfully this game which...
Tomb Raider – A rather special action adventure classic gets a BIG review by DarkwyndPT!
Hello everyone and welcome back to Retro Freak Reviews. Today, we’ll look at an iconic and influential title that has been on my backlog for several years. I’m talking about the original Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an action/adventure game developed by Core Design and...
North American Genesis 2 Becomes Official
While it was all but assured that Sega planned to create a North American Genesis Mini 2 given their announcement of the Japanese Mega Drive 2, it looks like we have a leak on Amazon to thank for prompting Sega to make it official. The American Genesis 2 will be...
Black Jewel Reborn Kickstarter Campaign Launching Today
Black Jewel Reborn Kickstarter Campaign Now Live New cooperative hack and slash for SNES, Genesis, NES and Game Boy Gaimersheim, Germany –July 13, 2022– Indie development studio, PSCD Games has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund their cooperative hack and slash...
Colossal Cave – Re-imagined by Roberta Williams
Sierra On-Line Co-founders Rebrand First Upcoming Game in Decades as Colossal Cave - Reimagined by Roberta Williams, Unveil New Trailer SEATTLE – July 12, 2022 – Colossal Cave - Reimagined by Roberta Williams, the ultimate 3D reimagining of the original text...
Riviera Story – A new arcade platformer is previewed for the C64 by Bladawietz
Even more C64 games to get through today, as trawling through the CSdb database we've come across a new C64 game as a preview called 'Riviera Story' by Bladawietz(?). This game available to try, looks to be an Arcade platformer in which you play as Fred and must...
Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Air-Sea Battle?
Release Date: 1977 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 - 2 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: Target Fun Model #: CX2602 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Larry Kaplan Given that this is one of the earliest 2600 games to be released, it comes as no surprise that...
Five Baseball Games on the Genesis You Have to Play
With baseball season in full-swing (see what we did there?) Old School Gamer counts down five baseball games you’ve got to play on the Sega Genesis. So go dust off that controller and play ball! World Series Baseball 98: One of the last baseball games released on the...
Knights & Slimes – A charming Arcade platformer announced for the C64 by Monte Boyd
Possibly the last news story for Saturday and one I think many people might be interested in playing when it gets an eventual release, is the upcoming game of Knights & Slimes for the C64 by Monte Boyd. Yes indeed thanks to a recent shout out on Twitter, not only...
Metal Slug gets a beta port for the Sega Mega Drive and Atari STE
I can say for sure there's probably not many of you that haven't heard of 'Metal Slug', a game in a series of games that are well known in the community, going back to the days of the Neo Geo system. This game has plenty of humor, while remaining action packed...
