August, 2021 - Gaming Retro

What Is Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection?

On: August 19, 2021

It’s been 17 years since Half-Life 2 hit the shelves, and countless gamers across the US and Europe sat hunched over their PCs for hours waiting for the Steam installer to connect to the registration server. The intervening years have been kind to Half-Life 2, with two follow up chaptersRead More →

Half-Life 2 Community Records Most Concurrent Players Since Records Began

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 18, 2021

In: Retro games news

Released in 2004, Half-Life 2’s launch and initial success predates Steam’s player tracking data. To raise awareness of the classic title, the Half-Life 2 online community pulled together to record its highest concurrent player tally since records began. While we’ll never know how many people played Half-Life 2 in 2004,Read More →

New Taito Space Invaders Collection for Nintendo Switch Seems Expensive

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 15, 2021

In: Retro games news

We received an email a few days ago about the new Space Invaders collection for Nintendo Switch. It looks interesting, although something is niggling me. Space Invaders attained its iconic status in the video game history through the times in the game arcades. And until today, people know the invadersRead More →

Retro Games Ltd Confirms THEA500 Mini is “First in the planned” Range

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 14, 2021

In: Retro Computers, Retro Consoles, Retro gear

Will there be a full sized Amiga clone once THEA500 Mini has been released? Many certainly seem to think so, expecting the manufacturers to follow the same path as its Commodore 64-inspired range. Responding to speculation about what was a quite innocuous comment, Retro Games Ltd has decided to expandRead More →

Blaze Entertainment Bullish Over Evercade VS Chances

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 13, 2021

In: Retro Consoles

In a warming, confident interview with tech publication T3, Evercade spokesperson Sean Cleaver has higlighted how confident makers Blaze Entertainment are over the potential for the Evercade VS. Set for release later this year, the Evercade VS marries the handheld retro gaming of the original Evercade with the classic multiplayerRead More →

Amiga’s Sonic Rival Zool Returns in Zool Redimensioned

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 11, 2021

In: Retro games news

Back in the 1990s, under the challenge of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario, someone decided the Amiga needed a mascot that wasn’t Turrican, James Pond, or Tutankamen. The result was Gremlin Graphics 1992 creation, Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension. Warmly received and with a heavy dose of Chupa ChupsRead More →

Retro Games Announces THEA500 Mini Amiga 500 System

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 10, 2021

In: Retro games news

Set for release in 2022, THEA500® Mini is the perfect solution for Amiga 500 fans without the original hardware. Like a big sister to the C64Mini, THEA500® Mini includes 25 classic Amiga games, including Worms, The Chaos Engine, and Another World. A fully licensed reimagining of the much-loved 16-bit homeRead More →

End of the Silver Ball: Museum of Pinball Auction Follows Closure

By: Christian Cawley

On: August 1, 2021

In: Retro arcades

Sad news for fans of pinball. Based in Banning, California, the Museum of Pinball is set to close, with an auction to clear its vast collection. Registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest pinball collection in the world, The Museum of Pinball consists of over 1,100Read More →

August 2021