"Powered by newly manufactured chips based on the originals"
"You have the right to boycott, and the right to buy"
Update: PopCorn Spinner will also support PC games
"We've been repeatedly asked if we're considering a white 'The Spectrum'"
Say hello to the Commodore 64C Ultimate
News - April, 2026
Thursday30th Apr 2026
News The C64 And ZX Spectrum Are Being Reimagined As Nintendo-Style Clamshell Handhelds
"Takes inspiration from some of the most successful gaming handhelds of the past"
News You'll Soon Be Able To Play A Mega Man Classic On Your Wrist, Thanks To This New Gaming Watch
'Mega Man 2' joins the My Play Watch line of digital watches
"Did the staff actually play these or what?"
News PopoloCrois Creator Yosuke Tamori Has Passsed Away At The Age Of 74
He died earlier this month
Wednesday29th Apr 2026
Promises "top-tier image quality"
News Sounds Like Plaion Has Another Console In The Works Following The Neo Geo AES+
"I think the guys from Plaion are going to give us more joy"
"Studios [were] seeing what they [could] get away with"
Tuesday28th Apr 2026
Say hello to the Commodore 64C Ultimate
News How Xbox's "Hidden" USB Port Has Opened The Door For The Console's "Most Powerful Add-On"
"I’ve been keeping a secret for 5 years…"
"Elden Ring as it was originally intended... a 1989 Nintendo portable console"
News "Wow, That Was Fast" - Hardcore RetroAchievements Support Comes To MiSTer FPGA
Update: NES 'hardcore' core support is here, other cores expected soon
"It's weak. Get out, do something"
"Days of getting scolded by Sega-sama"
News Struggling To Pre-Order The Neo Geo AES+ In North America? Plaion Is Working On It
"The short answer: your best bet at the moment is to pre-order at Amazon"
Monday27th Apr 2026
"The creativity was still there at Rare"
"'Well, we could be selling so much more if we were cross console'"
Thanks to the fan translators Chapu & Etokapa
"There's more detail to the story than you can ever possibly absorb"
Works with pretty much any Neo Geo system
News Game Boy Color Spin-Off 'Mega Man Xtreme' Gets New Fan "Revamp," With A Range Of Cool Features
Including a "re-imagined story", "improved controls", & more!
Sunday26th Apr 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 26th 2026)
R-Type! Punch-Out!! Sega! Nintendo in Brazil!
Saturday25th Apr 2026
Amiga: Classic Game Insights Vol 2 is on Kickstarter now
Friday24th Apr 2026
Update: PopCorn Spinner will also support PC games
News This Wristwatch-Sized Game Boy Color Doesn't Use Emulation And Runs Physical Carts
"It's a Game Boy Color with a less-than-optimal playing experience"
"This truly feels like the beginning of something new"
Review Anbernic RG Vita Pro - A Vita In Name Only, And That's Okay
It looks like a duck, but doesn’t walk like one
"Free experimentation, just no free support/replacement for bricked modded units"
News "No Old, Stay Gold" - It Looks Like Sega Is About To Revive More Of Its Classic Franchises
'Sega Universe' project teases new developments
Implicit Conversions joins Atari's list of studios
News We're Getting An Utan Rug To Celebrate Metal Slug's 30th
"The cutest killer monkey you know is back — this time as a rug"
Thursday23rd Apr 2026
Cost per Neo Geo game on Evercade is £3.57 / €4.28 / $5.00
News A Classic R-Type Game Boy Color Game Is Being Resurrected On Modern Platforms, Later This Month
"That long-imagined IF has finally become reality"
Pablo Miyazawa shares the story behind his book, "Nintendistas"
Wednesday22nd Apr 2026
News SNK's Street Smart And Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden III Come To Consoles This Week
Part of the Arcade Archives and Console Archives series, respectively
News "I Almost Can't Express How Joyful It Is" - '90s Euro Platformer 'Moon Child' Goes Viral
"It's a wonderful, surreal, wild ride"
News You Can Now Check Out The Advance Wars-Inspired 'Tiny Metal 2' For Free
Update: Playtest is now live on Steam
News Playdate Has Had Enough Of All This Generative AI Nonsense
"People are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words"
News AI Is Not "Of A High Enough Quality" For Use In Video Games Right Now, Says Peter Molyneux
"It's going to cause disruption"
News The Browser-Based Emulator Takes C64 Two-Player Games Online
"C64-Live is about sharing the magic of the C64 with friends and fans around the world"
Tuesday21st Apr 2026
"You have the right to boycott, and the right to buy"
News MOSS To Release Patch Next Month To Fix Heavily-Criticised Raiden Fighters Remix Collection
Update: Patch 1 is expected to drop next month
News Retro-Bit Is Blessing Two More 16-Bit Cult Classics With Physical Re-Releases
Arcus Odyssey and Psycho Dream make a comeback
News Saudi-Funded Metal Slug Reboot Looks To Be Taking The Series Back To Its Pixel Art Roots
That's if this new job description is anything to go by
Monday20th Apr 2026
News "That Was Crazy" - Retro Panel Gets Interrupted After Bomb Threat
"This is not how I expected the livestream to go"
"What game would you like to be the next one announced?"
Sunday19th Apr 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 19th 2026)
Neo Geo+! Polymega! Zelda!
Saturday18th Apr 2026
News The Neo Geo AES+ Will Be "Better Than Emulation" Says Modding Legend Furrtek
"Every chance of being the best since SNK themselves stopped manufacturing hardware"
Friday17th Apr 2026
News The Neo Geo AES+ Saves You Over $92,000 On The Real Deal
"The value proposition is absolutely UNREAL!!"
'Wild Gunman' was originally released in Japan back in 1974
News "Locked And Loaded" - Polymega Is Adding Support For Two New CD-Based Retro Consoles
"Supported on both Base Unit and App"
News The Neo Geo AES+ Version Of Neo Turf Masters Is Hiding An Unexpected (But Bonnie) Bonus
"For the first time on AES"
News "This Is Devastating News" - Hackers Force Console Preservation Site "Back To Basics"
"We had to take immediate action"
Thursday16th Apr 2026
"Powered by newly manufactured chips based on the originals"
"I tried to produce a high quality faithful translation"
New large-scale mod announced, to give the classic game a "next-gen" face-lift
News G-Mode To Revive Three Classic Mobile RPGs, Including Xenosaga: Pied Piper & Namco Chronicle
The three games were announced during a G-Mode Archives 6th-anniversary stream
Wednesday15th Apr 2026
"More CPU cores, higher clock speeds, double the RAM, increased storage, quieter operation"
The recent release violated mGBA's MPL 2.0 license
News SNK's Street Fighter Rival, Fatal Fury, Is Getting Its Own 'Ultimate' History Book
Includes exclusive interviews and loads of lovely artwork
"THE SPIRIT OF CHAMPIONS RACES ON!!"
News "Prepare For The PS2 Fanboy Meltdown" - Here's Resident Evil 4 Running On Dreamcast
"The historic gaming blasphemy to end all blasphemies"
News This Popular PSP SNES Emulator Is Getting Revived After Eight Years Away
New languages and 90% faster folder game loading
News 'Space Moves' Revives A Classic Run-And-Gun Series Which Dates All The Way Back To 1986
Coming to the Commodore Amiga
Tuesday14th Apr 2026
"We've been repeatedly asked if we're considering a white 'The Spectrum'"
The Concrete Sutra #1 coming next year
News Another N64 Launch Title Has Been Decompiled, And It Seems A PC Port Is Already In The Works
Pilotwings 64 hits 100% milestone
News 'Warhammer Classics' Brings 7 Beloved PC Titles Back From The Dead
"All of the titles are available with time-limited discounts"
Monday13th Apr 2026
"They couldn't make it too obvious they were supporting Xbox"
News 3DO FPGA Core "Cannot Be Accurate On The MiSTer" Says Creator
"Absolute accuracy won’t be achievable"
News Hopes Of Neo Geo Hardware Revival Triggered By ESRB Rating
PLAION is listed on now-deleted rating
"A story about acceptance, love, and finding your true self"
Saturday11th Apr 2026
"Everyone at M2 Co., Ltd. has a strong passion and love for classic games"
"You can understand everything and start playing immediately"
Friday10th Apr 2026
News 2026 Continues To Be An Awful Year For Retro Handheld Fans, As AYANEO Hints At More Price Hikes
The Pocket Vert & Pocket S Mini to be impacted
The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online
News Ninja Gaiden-Inspired Platformer 'Eclipse Blade' Sneaks Out Of The Shadows
Teases "old-school" challenge & plenty of throwables
News Evercade's Next Indie Heroes Collection Announced, With A Shareware Twist
Grab the first episode of 'BioMenace Remastered' now for free
Katsuya Akitomo pitched the game to his bosses at Capcom
Thursday9th Apr 2026
News New 'Hang-On' Patch For The Sega Master System Brings The 8-Bit Racer Closer To The Arcade
Includes a new title screen, redrawn sprites, and more
Goodbye Australia, hello Scotland!
News A Classic RPG Series Is Being Revived In Japan, After Almost 31 Years
It's time to show 'Aretha' a little respect!
News After Last Year's Delay, ININ Games' 'Parasol Superstars' Is Now Less Than A Week Away
Features 'Spica Adventure' & 'Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III'
Wednesday8th Apr 2026
News The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess Is Getting A Native PC Port
A new "first look" video is now available
A Switch version is also being released in Japan
Reissues of Taito's 'Polaris' & Nichibutsu's 'Seicross' announced
Tuesday7th Apr 2026
News "Pond Versus Bond" - James Bond's IP Owner Opposes Trademark For Cult UK Video Game Character
System 3 filed for the UK trademark in May 2025
The company has once again promised to do better
News MAME Set To Introduce Changes To Its System Requirements & "The Frequency Of Releases"
Moving forward, "there will no longer be a release nearly every month"
News One Of The Most Famous Commodore 64 Series Is Set To Get A Sequel, Almost 38 Years Later
"Another Visitor! Stay A While..."
Monday6th Apr 2026
News One Of The Sega Genesis's Worst-Reviewed RPGs Is Making A Comeback On Modern Consoles
One man's 'Traysia' is another man's gold
News Double Dragon Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Away
"I hope you will continue to enjoy my father's works"
"After about 20 years since the game's release in 2005"
Feature The DNA Of Hideo Kojima, Video Gaming's Greatest Auteur
"So much can be offered only through the medium of games"
News The PS3 Emulator, RPCS3, Announces A Huge, New SPU "Breakthrough," Set To Benefit All Games
Twisted Metal (2012) has already recorded "a 5-7% Average FPS improvement"
News "I Know Some People Don't Like This" - Final Fight MD's Latest Project Uses GenAI
"I want to make sure not to hide this fact"
News This Modular Marvel Can Be A Controller, Horizontal Handheld And Tabletop 'TATE' Device
Say hello to the GAMEMT E5 ModX
Sunday5th Apr 2026
Retro Recap All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 5th 2026)
Ninja Gaiden! Evercade Nexus! Lego PSP!
Saturday4th Apr 2026
But not before releasing a bunch of documents from Nintendo's most famous legal case
News DSpico, The World's First Open-Source Nintendo DS Flash Cart, Is Now Being Sold Commercially
Update: On sale now as a complete retail product
Friday3rd Apr 2026
"It's more so about the achievement of making it possible and solving it"
News All Three Mainline Jak & Daxter PS2 Games Now Have Native PC Ports
Unofficially, of course
News "A Legend Returns" - Castlevania-Inspired MSX2 Game Enlists The Help Of A Konami Icon
Now that's what I call fang-tastic news!
News Sega And Fila Are Joining Forces For A New Range Of Sporting Gear
(For Japan, obviously)
Thursday2nd Apr 2026
News "A Flood Of Happy Memories" - This Fanmade LEGO PSP Needs Your Help To Become The Real Deal
The 333 piece set is an "almost 1:1" recreation of the PSP 1000
News More Classic Capcom Titles Have Arrived On Steam, But, Of Course, There's A Catch
Do we really need DRM on decades old games? Capcom seems to think so!
Wednesday1st Apr 2026
News Modder Picks Apart Old PlayStation Consoles To Create The Ultimate "Hybrid" PS1
Custom PCB makes it all possible
"It's really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people"
Feature It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
...and YouTube channels, and podcasts, and physical magazines...
News Take Note! R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos Is Finally Getting A Western Release This Summer
R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos is set to land this June, after several delays
