Old Games For Old Gamers

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"It took quite a journey to get here," laments the host of Geek Battle Gaming in his review of a surprising ZX Spectrum release... Mighty Final Fight, based on the NES game that was based on the arcade game. (Phew.)...

In the tradition of her previous video about Data East's 1980s coin-ops, gaming historian Kim Justice fixes her critical lens on the arcade games of Konami released during the decade of decadence....

Mauro Xavier and his team are still hard at work on Final Fight MD, the ambitious Sega Genesis port of the classic belt-scrolling brawler. The first three stages of the game are fully playable in the beta currently available on Xavier's Patreon page, taking you through the bar, into the wrestling ring with a handful of Andores,...

Sega Lord X just reviewed Golden Axe for the 32X add-on, and it's a beaut, with high resolution backgrounds that are stunningly close to what was in the arcade game. The original Genesis version of Golden Axe had to cut corners to fit into a 512K cartridge, and this plus the low color output of the system meant that the game was...

Digital Eclipse is on fire lately! The creators of Atari 50 and Karateka Gold are now setting their sights on cult game designer Jeff Minter, who made dozens of twitchy arcade-style titles for home computers like the VIC-20 and Atari ST....

The YouTube channel Mike's Gaming Channel came across this peculiar ColecoVision release... a multi-cart featuring two dozen games for the Magnavox Odyssey2....

Finding news on retro games, or games that invoke the feel of old favorites from the 1990s, can be tough. However, sometimes you get lucky, and that news just comes out of nowhere....

YouTube personality John Hancock takes a detailed look at the classic action game Super Mario Bros. This ordinarily wouldn't be a big deal, except the game is running on an unexpected console... the Intellivision, released in the late 1970s....

Well, this came out of left field. Time Extension reports that a team of two programmers have released a port/demake of SNK vs. Capcom for the Commodore 64. Not surprisingly, it's not a perfect conversion of Match of the Millennium for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color, with fewer features and chunky graphics. It is running on a forty...

I loved the original game in arcades. There was a feel to Exerion that most other shooters of its era lacked... rather than stopping on a dime, your ship instead glides like a kite, turning the action into a cosmic ballet. Now THAT'S galactic dancing!...

We've been buried in Atari 2600 game players over the last ten years, including those by AtGames and Atari itself, but My Arcade's Atari Gamestation Pro seems to be the most promising entry yet into this glutted retro market. It's got a versatile joystick (analog and digital controls built into one Atari controller? Viva la...

The original Fatal Fury on the Neo-Geo was ported to the Sega Genesis thirty years ago, but a slim cartridge size meant there were a lot of compromises to what was already a fairly simplistic versus fighting game....

We're talking thirty minutes of brand new, fan-designed video games. Sure hope you've got the attention span to sit through it all, because there are some can't miss indie titles included! Thanks to Matt Hughson for posting this footage... I try to keep up with the retro console homebrew scene, but I had no idea half these games...

A coder named Mairtrus made a conversion of the original Super Mario Bros. for the Sega Genesis, and it's quite faithful to the NES game in most respects. That music, though... it sounds like the cheap synth organ you might hear at a baseball game. Stepping up to the plate... it's a-him, Mario!...

Video games are an expensive hobby, but the truly determined among us find ways to make it work, even on a tight budget. In an interview with My Retro Life, John Hancock talks about a special Christmas when he received a TurboGrafx-16. His mother was ashamed that a clearance priced game console at Toys 'R Us was all she could...

YouTube personality Sega Lord X digs into the latest build of Doom Resurrection in his latest video. For those unaware, Doom Resurrection is a second attempt at a Doom port for the 32X, and a more impressive effort than the first. You're getting enemies that weren't in the original 32X port, a wider variety of weapons, enhanced...

YouTube member Svenny McG introduces the world to the Nyko Air Flow controller for the original Xbox. This amusingly over-engineered joypad has a massive fan built into the unit, which draws in air from the bottom and redistributes it through vents built into the handles. What this means for you, the player, is less sweaty...

John from Gen X Grown Up takes a deep dive into the 20th Century Fox library for the Atari 2600. There are some gems to be found scattered amidst the rough- Doug Neubauer's very Pac-Man like Alien and Sirius' Worm War I for instance- but for the most part, Fox should have stuck with movies.

In its latest video, Greg's Game Room compares nearly forty games released for both the Atari 5200 (or its close cousin, the Atari 400 computer) and the ColecoVision....

Hot on the trail of ten AtGames Flashback consoles and the poorly received VCS comes yet another Atari console, the 2600 Plus. What's so "plus" about this machine, anyway? Well, it runs actual Atari 2600 cartridges... most of them, anyway. It also plays Atari 7800 games, and runs the libraries of both systems in crisp HDMI,...

It's not just Street Fighter 2, but a lot of competitors, particularly King of Fighters. You've heard the line from Terry Bogard before, I'm sure... "KOF was just a front for something bad?" Yes, Terry, yes! Just like the last fourteen times! Like the time they were going to resurrect an unstoppable eight-headed serpent from the...

TheRoboZ, currently working on a Sega Genesis conversion of R-Type, has added an enhanced version of the secret stage exclusive to the Master System port of the game. It's got all the fleshy cosmic goodness of Compile's original art design, with bigger, brighter graphics that better match the sleek 16-bit artwork of the arcade...

Andre from Black Nerd Comedy looks back at the late 1980s and 1990s, when gamers really had to work to get their thrills. There was no internet to bring you a world of gaming goodness... you had to leave your house, touch grass, then quickly leave grass and walk into an arcade, or a Blockbuster Video, or a friend's house, to...