Category: News
This week in retro, minus the hype.
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A fan’s Neo Geo port of Zero Wing just became an official PLAION cartridge
Zero Wing never actually came out on Neo Geo. Toaplan built it for arcade boards, the Mega Drive…
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The Neo Geo AES+ finally worked at Tokyo Game Show, then Plaion delayed it a full year anyway
Plaion let Tokyo Game Show attendees loose on working Neo Geo AES+ units this month, and by most…
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You can finally fix the Atari 2600’s blurriest problem for the price of a large pizza
The Atari 2600 has spent 49 years talking to televisions over RF, which is a polite way of…
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A Blues Brothers sequel that vanished in 1994 is 80 per cent of the way back onto the Amiga
The Amiga was dying in 1994, and Titus quietly let its Blues Brothers sequel die with it. The…
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A first-person shooter just landed on the Commodore Plus/4, of all places
The Commodore Plus/4 spent most of 1984 being quietly ignored by everyone who wasn’t Hungarian. It shipped with…
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This arcade-perfect Pac-Man clone needs seven times more RAM than your VIC-20 actually has
A stock VIC-20 has 5K of RAM, and roughly 3.5K of that is left over once BASIC has…
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Ubisoft’s first game turns 40, and someone’s just squeezed it onto an Atari Lynx
Zombi was Ubisoft’s first game, a 1986 action-adventure built around George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead rather than…
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Iraq’s first Amiga game sat lost for thirty years. It’s finally free to play
Rabah Shihab, Murtadha Salman and Mahir AlSalman built Babylonian Twins in Baghdad in 1993, on a single Amiga…
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This homebrew relay computer took eight minutes to calculate three digits of pi, and that’s the point
Eight minutes of clattering electromechanical relays to produce three digits of pi is not, by any conventional measure,…
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Fed up waiting for a CoCoVGA, this modder built his own pixel-perfect HDMI for the Color Computer 2
Scott Baker wanted HDMI on his CoCo 2. The two commercial options, CoCoVGA and CoCoDV, were both sold…