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.
(Update 22-09-19: An update has been released for the SNES core, bringing a few fixes and enhancement chip changes. Because the Pocket is designed differently than the DE-10 Nano board that powers the MiSTer, it’s going to take a little more time for the Pocket port of the SNES core to support all of the […]
An Indiegogo campaign has been announced for the VM2: a modern redesign of the Dreamcast‘s hybrid handheld console and memory card. Like many of the features the Dreamcast is notable for, the original VMU was as innovative as it was flawed—its screen displays useful information in some titles and its ability to play mini-games is a charming […]
If you’ve been interested in checking out the Pokemon Mini—Nintendo’s Pokemon themed micro handheld from 2001—then today is your lucky day! Developer Grieverheart, who I can’t seem to find much of a history for, has released a MiSTer FPGA core that seems to work well so far. Rather than try to extoll the virtues of this […]
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, a community-led effort to remaster the PC port of this survival horror classic, is currently seeking assistance from the modding community. While some incredible work has been done to bring the game to parity with the best versions of the game, even exceeding them in many regards, there are still […]
Sega Game Gear, Master System, and SG-1000 cores for the Analogue Pocket have just been released by spiritualized1997, the same developer behind the GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance cores that were released shortly after the v1.1 beta Pocket firmware. If you’ve run those cores then it won’t be a surprise to you that these ones […]
PixelFX, a trio of hardware developers responsible for some of the community’s most polished console HDMI mods, has just released a significant firmware update for both their PS1Digital and N64Digital output boards. While this update implements some exciting new features for users of both mods, it also gives us window in to how PixelFX plans to […]
An English fan-translation has been released for “Baroque” this week, giving western audiences their first taste of the original version of the game. Although the PS2/Wii remake was localized in English, the original version of the 5th-gen dungeon crawler “Baroque” has always been a Japan exclusive—even for the 2020 re-release on Switch. Originally made for […]
By now there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of OpenLara—an open source project that aims to reverse engineer the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider engine so that it can be modernized and ported to other platforms. OpenLara has recently gained a lot of attention for the incredible Game Boy Advance port that has been making […]
PixelFX—a trio of hardware developers responsible for some of the most polished console HDMI mods available—wrote up a recap post this weekend that not only chronicled their first year in business, but also outlined their vision for an ambitious pair of products that the plan to release over the next year: First up: The Morph Scaler […]
In their ongoing quest to document video game prototypes, hardware revisions, source code, artwork, and all kinds of other development ephemera, the preservationists over at The Hidden Palace have released 178 prototype game builds—30 of which are from games that never saw a commercial release! These releases are mostly from older cart-based systems, ranging from the […]
