Timeline
Friday16th May 2025
News Sega Saturn Is Getting A New Fan-Made Dragon Ball Fighter
And it's looking very promising indeed
News "Saturn Is A Lot More Fun" - 1995 Trade Ad Shows Just How Rattled Sega Was About PlayStation
"Sony's got quite a bit of catching up to do"
News Strictly Limited Games Cancels Physical PS4 Release Of Parasol Stars & Spica Adventure
PS5 and Nintendo Switch releases will now be a 2-pack
"I wanted to live in the meme moment, but I didn't get to"
News Sonic Wings Reunion Is Heading To Consoles In The West This October
Update: Red Art Games is attached to publish
American Oudan Ultra Quiz was released in 1992
Thursday15th May 2025
Review Indie Heroes Collection 4 (Evercade) - Dig Dug & Bomberman Mash-Up Murtop Is The Highlight
Eleven "modern" retro titles included
We speak to Zork designer Dave Lebling about his most "disappointing" adventure
News A Lost Mobile-Exclusive 'Mana' Game Has Just Been Partially Preserved
The trial version of Friends of Mana has successfully been dumped
News 8BitMods' Dreamcast 'VMU Pro' Will Cost You £74.99 / $81.23 / €74.99
"The last VMU you'll ever need for your Dreamcast"
News Fanmade Genesis / Mega Drive 'Metal Gear' Port Sneaks Out Of The Shadows
And you can download it now!
Wednesday14th May 2025
News Polymega's Next Module Plays Atari 2600 And 7800 Games
Comes with the Polymega Pro Joystick
News SNK Is Getting A New CEO Following Fatal Fury's Flop
Kenji Matsubara "will transition to an advisory role"
News Creator Of Space Invaders Thinks Video Games Are Made The Wrong Way Today
"We, the game creators, were increasingly expected to listen to the sales team"
News You Can Only Hear This Mario 64 Sound If You Leave Your N64 Running For Over A Year
"We have unlocked a secret sound effect no one else has heard before"
News Please Don't Sleep On This Genesis Mecha Cult Classic, Now Available On Switch, PS4 And Xbox
Wolf Team's Final Zone is well worth a look
John Mulaney will play Trip Hawkins
News Creator Of The Shmup Genre Sees "Bullet Hell" As A "Dead-End"
But he's a big fan of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga
Feature Tomohiro Nishikado On Making 'Space Invaders' And What Makes Games Fun
"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games"
Tuesday13th May 2025
Review ZPF (Mega Drive) - A Wild Fantasy Shmup That Lights Up Sega's 16-Bit System
The 68000's heart really is on fire
News Retro Fighters' PlayStation 'Defender' Controller Just Got An Impressive Upgrade
Update: The Kickstarter for the project is now live
News Legendary Pokémon Artist Mitsuhiro Arita Is Behind Earthion's Soaring Key Art
"Evokes the hand-drawn style of posters that once adorned the walls of game centers"
News Hot On Diddy Kong's Tail, Mario Kart 64 Has Now Been Successfully Decompiled
Update: Actually, it's a "byte for byte" function match
News Mega Man Creator Reunites With Harumi Fujita For New Album 'Rockmama'
Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise is also collaborating on the album
Monday12th May 2025
News Ape Escape Was Born Because "3D Games Offered Way Too Much Freedom"
"It became very easy for players to lose sight of what they should be doing"
News In A Rare Piece Of Positive Games Media News, Giant Bomb Is Now Independent
"Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them"
News GuliKit's Latest Controller Takes Inspiration From Sega Saturn
Shame it's not available in a six-button option, though
News Data East's Terrible Mortal Kombat Clone 'Tattoo Assassins' Is Getting Revived
Coming to the exA-Arcadia arcade system
News Looks Like Another PS1 Classic Is Coming To Dreamcast
"This is how all great ports start out!"
News Maverick's Baghdad Extraction Is A NES Zapper Game That's Been Called "Zelda With Guns"
"Engage in fast-paced shootouts against Saddam’s ruthless elite guards"
News 30 Years Ago, Sega Took Its Biggest Gamble With Saturn And Failed
"That’s not how you launch a system"
Friday9th May 2025
News Rare's Cancelled N64 Title Dinosaur Planet Is Getting The Recompilation Treatment
Native PC port on the horizon
News You Know That Insanely Rare SpaceWorld 2000 GameCube? It's Now Up For Sale
Was previously listed on eBay for (checks notes) $100,000
Feature Let's Pour One Out For The Dreamcast's Best Controller
(Well, if you like fighting games, at least)
Feature This Retro Game Store Is So Good It Has Its Own Video Game
"People think it's cute that a retro store has its own retro game"
News 2025 World Video Game Hall Of Fame Inductees Are Confirmed, And One Might Surprise You
Everyone's favourite virtual pet makes the cut
Thursday8th May 2025
News Dangerous Demolition Mashes Breakout With A Top-Down Shooter, And It's Coming To Game Gear
"Leo, the name that resonates in the world of demolition"
News 'From Joysticks To Haptics' Offers A Visual History of Video Game Controllers
New book from Lost in Cult arrives in July
News There's A New Sega Saturn Emulator On The Block
Ymir is already looking very promising
News Fallout 1 & 2's Source Code Isn't Lost After All
"When I left, I kept EVERYTHING"
Wednesday7th May 2025
