25 classic Amiga games are bundled in with the A500 Mini, making this the ultimate mini retro console. Announced in 2021, released in 2022, and now available for less than £90, the A500 Mini is closest you can get to owning an Amiga – unless you happen to own anRead More →
Do you have £15,000 to spend on two 5.25-inch floppies of Dragon’s Lair? In the mid-1980s, one of the biggest arcade games was Dragon’s Lair, a fantasy title with art by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth. Foreshadowing the “going through motions” gameplay of more recent titles like Death Stranding (unfair? IRead More →
The early history of 3D rendering software Lightwave is explored in Amiga Addict issue 23, out this week. My son was teasing me about my continued interest in the Amiga a day or two ago, but was briefly stopped in his tracks by this bombshell: affordable CGI was not possibleRead More →
Just as Nintendo has closed the Wii U and 3DS eShops, so the Xbox 360 marketplace must fall into Microsoft’s data shredders. The date for the Xbox 360 Marketplace closure is July 29, 2024. Released 18 years ago (this November), the Xbox 360 is a genuine retro gaming platform, withRead More →
The 17th Century French artist Richarde de Pomme Pom, in his collected writings, Words About Paint, said that a piece of art should be, at the very least, more appealing to one’s eyes than a slice of lovely lemon cheesecake. If it wasn’t he thought that one should eat theRead More →
A trip out in the car yesterday unlocked a number of retro games locations in Halifax, a town in West Yorkshire that I’d somehow never been to before. The main reason for the visit was to check out the Piece Hall. A former trading post for cloth merchants, the GradeRead More →
The 1991 Game Boy title Bill & Ted’s Excellent Game Boy Adventure has made its way over to the Commodore 64 and has taken fans by total surprise! It’s free and available to download right now. The game’s conversion underwent some changes and challenges. The person responsible for this gameRead More →
The release of The Super Mario Bro. Movie (2023) is practically 5 months old now and I still can’t stop belting out “Peaches”. With Super Mario already being the legendary franchise it already is, you can’t help but notice the resurgence the series has had on the lead up toRead More →
(NOTE: This story has developed – see our latest update) Websites come and go, but you wouldn’t expect a place dedicated to stuff of the past to shutdown. Yet that is exactly what happened to Vintage Is the New Old. The site – full of interesting articles on retro everythingRead More →
