Hello readers! My name is Alex Mitchell and I’m a gaming enthusiast with a background in communications and film & television production. While I don’t have any professional training as a journalist, I still strive to accurately and honestly report on projects, products, and events in the retro gaming community. I could not be more honoured to be contributing to this website and hope you enjoy my articles.
P.S. My definition of “retro” is: If it has been fifteen years or two generations since the end of a game console’s lifespan.
Smash Remix—a ROM Hack that adds a substantial amount of new content to the original Super Smash Bros—just received a new update that includes even more characters, stages, music, gameplay modes, and balance changes. The list of changes is far too long to include in this post, so if you’re interested in the nitty gritty […]
(Updated on January 13, 2024) James has released a video on their YouTube channel about this topic and the online patching utility is gone from the web. Portal 64—a Nintendo 64 port of Valve’s Portal, independently developed by James Lambert—appears to have been shut down. In a YouTube video released on January 13th, 2024, Lambert […]
While a few of Sega’s arcade classics—including After Burner, Virtua Fighter, Space Harrier, and more—received enhanced ports on the 32X, Golden Axe was only ever released for the original Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s a fine version of the game that preserves a lot of the magic that fans experienced in arcades, but Jeroen Visser (aka jvisser) […]
World of Games, a publisher that is focussing on releasing physical copies of independently made games for older consoles, has just announced a physical NTSC-only release of the 3DO homebrew “BioFury”: https://worldofgamespublishing.com/shop Developed by RetroLoveLetter, BioFury is a first person shooter in the tradition of Wolfenstein3D but with a Resident Evil style twist. For folks with […]
LSD: Dream Emulator, an experimental exploration game released in 1998, has developed a cult following despite never being localized for markets outside Japan. Although it is available on the Japanese PSN Store as a “PSOne Classic”, and fans did eventually release an english translation, actually experiencing this game involves jumping through enough hoops that it […]
If Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey results are anything to go by, less than 2% of Steam users are gaming on MacOS. Hell, even Linux Steam users outnumber us! With such a small user base, it’s no surprise that fewer developers are opting to support MacOS when it comes to open source projects. It […]
ROM Hacker djedditt has released another rumble-centric ROM hack this week, bringing force feedback to Wario Land 4—including Game Boy Player rumble support! Although there were a handful of carts for the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color that implemented rumble motors, the Game Boy Advance’s relationship with rumble is more fleshed out. Beyond […]
While the Atari of old has been shown some love recently with the release of the excellent “Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection”, as a brand it simply hasn’t been able to stick the landing when it comes to hardware efforts. Whether it’s the million different Flashback consoles or its modern take on the VCS, the […]
(Update #2: August 14, 2023) In the face of legal threats from Cybdyn, danhas42 has taken the perfectly reasonable course of action to not release LiteMenu or its source code. The PS-IOwned project is—allegedly—still working on their own implementation though, but only time will tell how they react to similar pressures. (Update #1: August 13, […]
The GCLoader, a GameCube optical drive emulator from Daniel Kraak (meneerbeer) and Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi), will finally be back in stock this coming Monday, July 31st. Released in 2019, the GCLoader was the first commercially available ODE for the Nintendo GameCube, boasting improved functionality over existing SD card interfaces and (after an awkward initial release) […]
