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....
Good news for fans of obscure side-scrolling shooters! Rabio Lepus (which I remember in arcades as "Rabbit Punch") is now half off its original price on the Nintendo Switch, bringing the total down to $3.99. This was one of developer Video System's first games, starring two rabbit droids blasting and punching their way through...
The YouTube channel Mike's Gaming Channel came across this peculiar ColecoVision release... a multi-cart featuring two dozen games for the Magnavox Odyssey2....
Coming soon to a Nintendo Switch or PS4 near you, whether you like it or not! It's the Taito arcade title Tokio, a decidedly lackluster shoot 'em up from 1986. Tokio plays like a halfway point between Capcom's 1942 and Nichibutsu's Terra Cresta, with your biplane flying over the Japanese cityscape, blasting formations of stealth...
If you were a little shaver during the Genesis years who was disappointed that they couldn't squeeze Earthquake's Texas-sized tushie into its port of Samurai Shodown, take heart! A team of South American programmers lead by Gabriel Pyron have done the impossible, putting The Incredible Hulk and a full-sized Juggernaut from...
Digital Eclipse, one of the pioneers of retro gaming emulation on home game consoles, is now the property of Atari. Under the leadership of current CEO Wade Rosen, Atari has been buying anything and everything that could conceivably be related to Atari, including Berzerk creators Stern, Accolade, the publisher that gave the...
Visco, a small but ambitious game developer from the 1990s, has been trying to establish itself in the 21st century with everything from new games (Andro Dunos II) to an arcade cabinet filled with their older ones (the Visco Mini Arcade Bartop, manufactured by Unico)....
It's been a while since I've posted, hasn't it? Chalk it up to a lack of available retro gaming news and garden variety depression....
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...
This just in from Nintendo Everything... after decades of blissful ignorance, Americans will learn all about Horace, the hollow-eyed specter which starred in a handful of games for British computers....
Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I really need to find better sources of retro gaming information... the well always seems to be dry at the usual places I visit....
Time Extension reports that a team of programmers is working to bring Mortal Kombat II, one of the most popular video games of the 1990s, to the 3DO, one of the... least popular video game systems of the 1990s....
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...
The Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group thought it could buy a dozen development studios, then use them to build an empire rivaling Activision and Electronic Arts. When that didn't happen, Embracer did what companies often do in this situation... they killed the studios they purchased, while keeping the intellectual...
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...
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.
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...
Fanatical is offering three or more high profile games for five dollars each, if you buy them in bulk. If you buy three, you pay $14.99. If you buy five, you pay $22.99....
Elektronite just released three games for the Intellivision that may be familiar to old school gamers... Jeff Minter's Hovver Bovver, where you mow a lawn while dodging suburban threats, Bill Hogue's Miner 2049er, which tasks you with "painting" stages while dodging creepy mutants, and David Rolfe's Steamroller, an obscure...
Here's an article I wrote a few years back about Konami's Mega Zone, a middle of the road shoot 'em up from 1983 that managed to sink its hooks into me despite its aggressive mediocrity. It doesn't look or sound as nice as Xevious, and it's not as fair as Xevious. Yet I kept feeding it quarters, trying to discover the X-factor...
Here's some fantastic news for Dreamcast owners and rhythm game fans! Derek Pascarella and his team of translators have created an English language patch for SNK's cel-shaded music title Cool Cool Toon, and even added HTML-based bonus content as a handy stand-in for the game's long-deprecated internet features. Players can check...
