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YesterdayTue, 30th Dec 2025
Leslie Swan's journey from Nintendo Power to Nintendo legend
- Interviews
- Features
- Nintendo
- Mario
"The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time"
- Features
- Mega Drive
- Yuzo Koshiro
- The Making Of
News Pre-Orders For The SN Operator, Your Next Essential SNES Accessory, Open Today
Ships April 2026
- Nintendo
- SNES
"Beautiful non-dopamine loop gameplay that is just pure joy"
- Nintendo
- Atari
- 3DS
- Wade Rosen
Monday29th Dec 2025
"I’d get all excited just seeing something like 'syntax error' pop up on the screen"
- Features
- Interviews
- Music
- Hitoshi Sakimoto
"Most of the CG designers were college students doing part-time work"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Ape Escape
- PS1
News How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
VGHF's latest video celebrates 40 years of the NES
- Nintendo
- NES
Sunday28th Dec 2025
Best Of 2025 Barcode Battler, The Early '90s Classic That's So Crap, It's Almost Cool
Get ready for some Commerce Conflict
- Features
- Barcode Battler
- Best Of 2025
Best Of 2025 Tomohiro Nishikado On Making 'Space Invaders' And What Makes Games Fun
"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games"
- Features
- Interviews
- Tomohiro Nishikado
- Best Of 2025
Saturday27th Dec 2025
Feature The Analogue 3D Is The Best Retro Hardware Of 2025
The N64 got an upgrade this year
- Features
- Best Of 2025
- Analogue
- N64
Jerry Momoda on his journey from expert gamer to industry veteran
- Features
- Nintendo
- Arcades
- Donkey Kong
"I didn't know anything about what other people in the gaming industry were doing"
- Interviews
- Features
- PS1
- Sony
Friday26th Dec 2025
I thought, 'Damn, I think this is why ToeJam and Earl sprang into my brain 10 years later.'
- Interviews
- Features
- ToeJam & Earl
- Sega
"A number of overseas developers have said, 'We want you to make a [Segagaga] sequel'"
- Features
- Interviews
- Astro Boy
- Segagaga
Thursday25th Dec 2025
"Our whole goal was to capture the sheer variety and texture that was in the Japanese script"
- Interviews
- Features
- Final Fantasy
- Best Of 2025
And how it almost didn't happen...
- Features
- Phoenix Wright
- DS
- Best Of 2025
News Star Fox 64 Gets Another PC Recompilation Just In Time For Christmas
I CAN let you do that, Star Fox!
- Recompilation
- Star Fox
- N64
Wednesday24th Dec 2025
Guide Best Tactical RPGs - 20 Turn-Based Strategy Classics You Should Play
One good turn deserves 19 more
- Guides
- Best Games
"Austin Powers...completely changed the perception of our game"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Monolith Productions
- PC
Best Of 2025 How A Cult Comic About A Samurai Rabbit Became A Classic Commodore 64 Game
"Stan's vision of people running at each other is fun but 'unique!'"
- Features
- C64
- Beam Software
- Comics
Tuesday23rd Dec 2025
News Zelda: Twilight Princess Has Been Decompiled
Paves the way for native ports to other platforms
- Zelda
- GameCube
- Decompilation
We recently had the opportunity to chat with the influential artist
- Interviews
- Features
- Katsuya Terada
- Best Of 2025
"Satoru Iwata wrote in his card, 'You know, Shigeru Miyamoto also likes Samba de Amigo'"
- Features
- The Making Of
- Arcade
- Dreamcast
Retroid is the first to feel the pinch
- AI
- Emulation
- Emulation Handhelds
- Retroid
Monday22nd Dec 2025
News You Can Now Use The Analogue Pocket To Dump Your Game Boy Cartridges
And preserve your save data, too
- Analogue Pocket
- Analogue
- FPGA
Best Of 2025 The Story Of Jet Set Radio's Unexpected Journey From Dreamcast To Game Boy Advance
"We ended up hacking the Dreamcast disc, because we couldn't get any actual assets."
- Features
- Jet Set Radio
- GBA
- THQ
"We paid special attention to the death scenes..."
- Features
- SNES
- Prince of Persia
- Best Of 2025
News Saturn RPG 'Airs Adventure' Is Finally Playable In English
1996 game finally gets localised
- Sega
- SEGA Saturn
- Fan Translations
News Who Created The Term "Metroidvania"? Gaming Historian Critical Kate Tries To Find Out
The eternal question
- Metroidvania
- Castlevania
- Metroid
- Videos
News "Long Lost" Genesis Sequel To Pit Fighter Is Found, Thanks To The VGHF
Prototype dates back to April 1993
- Sega
- Game Preservation
- Mega Drive
- VGHF
News Game Boy Title 'Ninja Gaiden Shadow' Is Getting The Unofficial DX Treatment
1991 action platformer gets a lick of paint
- Game Boy
- Game Boy Color
- Ninja Gaiden
News Road Rash Is Getting A Spiritual Successor Called 'Bash Moto'
"One too many hits on your rider or bike may end your race"
- Steam
- PC
- Road Rash
Friday19th Dec 2025
Site News Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
- ModRetro
- Site News
News "They Lied" - New Research Casts Doubt On Analogue 3D Accuracy Claims
Is the Analogue 3D as accurate as the marketing suggests?
- Analogue
- N64
- FPGA
- Kaze Emanuar
And why developers probably shouldn't include them
- News
- Fallout
- RPGs
News This Classic Game Boy Tiny Toons Adventure Is Now Available In Colourised 'DX' Form
A Big Break indeed!
- Nintendo
- Game Boy
- ROM Hacks
"The response to the software at the pre-order event was dismal"
- Sega
- M2
- Yosuke Okunari
News "He Will Be Missed By The Spectrum Community" - ByteDelight's Ben Versteeg Has Passed Away
"He was an absolute gentleman"
- ZX Spectrum
- Modding
News Romhack.ing's BlueSky Account Gets Suspended Over Cookie's Bustle English Patch
Update: "This action was taken by a copyright troll"
- Fan Translations
Review Arcade Archives The Outfoxies (Switch 2) - Namco's Smash Bros. Forerunner Finally Comes Home
And it only took 30 years!
- Reviews
- Arcade Archives
News One Of The Year's Most Adorable Game Boy Color Games Is Getting A Physical Release
How the West was fun
- News
- Game Boy
- Homebrews
One of 2023's best surprises is getting a follow-up
- News
- Fable
- Ultima
- RPGs
News Here's How To "Fix" Knuckles' Chaotix, One Of The Most Divisive Sonic Games Of All Time
"Rediscover this divisive game in a whole new light"
- Sega
- 32X
- Modding
Thursday18th Dec 2025
News The Original NES Mega Man Has Just Got A New "Revamped" Version, Courtesy Of A Fan
The hack follows similar patches for Mega Man 2 & 3
- News
- NES
- Mega Man
- ROM Hacks
Review Commodore 64 Ultimate - The Gold Standard Of Retro Computer Revivals
The '80s classic gets upgraded for the modern era
- Reviews
- Hardware Reviews
- FPGA
- Commodore
News Hamster Has Revealed The Identity Of Its 500th Arcade Archives Release
But don't get too excited!
- News
- Arcade Archives
News After 44 Years, One Of Frogger's Biggest Mysteries Might Finally Be Solved
Who created the arcade classic?
- News
- Konami
- Arcade
- Frogger
"It has been a very long time since we communicated [about] the game"
- News
- Windjammers
- Mega Drive
News Julian "Jaz" Rignall Shows Off His Potential Successor To Mean Machines
Welcome to the 'Golden Age'
- Julian Rignall
- Magazines
- Mean Machines
'Carbuncle Pi' was released in 1991
- News
- EGGCONSOLE
- Compile
- MSX2
