One of the oddities of modern retro hardware is scale. Mini consoles look the part until you plug them into a huge modern TV, at which point the illusion quietly collapses. The Amiga A500 Mini is a good example — charming, capable, and unmistakably Amiga, but always slightly out ofRead More →
There’s something oddly festive about this announcement, even if it arrives with a raised eyebrow. Space Invaders has finally landed on Arcade Archives, and the overriding feeling isn’t amazement — it’s “hang on, wasn’t this missing?” Apparently, yes. Until now. I’m very much not short on Space Invaders in myRead More →
Games That Weren’t has closed out the year with its annual GTW64 Christmas Update, and it’s another cracking reminder of just how much Commodore 64 history is still being uncovered. The 2025 update brings a generous mix of fully playable recoveries, rare prototypes, and significant updates to existing archive entriesRead More →
A long-lost Thomas the Tank Engine game for the Commodore 64 has finally surfaced, more than three decades after it quietly vanished during development. Back in the early 1990s, Thomas the Tank Engine 2 appeared repeatedly in Commodore Format magazine’s Early Warning Scanner, but never progressed beyond brief mentions. WithRead More →
There are retro-inspired games, and then there are games that look like they crawled out of a time rift and refused to update their design documents. Beyond Logic very much falls into the latter category. Now available on Steam, Beyond Logic is a family-friendly puzzle and logic game that tasksRead More →
Hong Kong 2097, the official sequel to one of the most notorious games of the 16-bit era, won’t be launching on Steam after all. The developers behind the project — Kanipro and Kowloon Kurosawa (Happy Soft), the creator of the original Hong Kong 97 — have confirmed that Steam hasRead More →
Good news for physical media fans — R-Type Dimensions III is now getting a proper, full cartridge release on Nintendo Switch 2 in both Europe and the US. Following community feedback and a lot of very loud (and very justified) discussion around preservation and physical ownership, the publisher has confirmedRead More →
The Game Boy Camera was never meant to be scary — which makes Encryptid all the more unsettling. Announced by Autumn Knight (Morph Girl, Dark Nights with Poe & Munro), Encryptid is an FMV horror game built around real footage captured using the original Game Boy Camera, and it’s headingRead More →
Every now and then, a new Amiga game pops up that makes you stop, squint at the screen, and think: hang on… this is doing something interesting. Invanoid is very much one of those games. Available now on itch.io, Invanoid is an experimental arcade title for the Amiga 1200 thatRead More →
