A couple of weeks ago brought you the sad news that long-tme retro site Vintage Is the New Old had published its final post. Happily, the story doesn’t end there. Soon after the story was published, we were contacted by @CommodoreBlog on Twitter who informed that VITNO was not deadRead 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 →
The Tetris movie, released on March 31st by Apple TV+, has recently become the focus of a copyright lawsuit filed in the New York feral court. Daniel Ackerman, editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and author of the book “The Tetris Effect,” claims the “Tetris” movie was adapted from his work without hisRead More →
If you’re desperate for more Half-Life , a new fan-written novel might ease your urges to shoot Combine forces and fantasise about punching Dr Breen… Phase Transition is the title of a 600-page book by Ross Joseph Gardner and Michael Pelletier which tells the story of characters in Half-Life 2‘sRead More →
ROM siteholder Dstorage has been ordered to pay €442,750 (approximately $484,000 USD) to Nintendo by order of the Paris Court of Appeals with a further €25,000 covering legal fees. Dstorage was targeted for possessing unauthorised Nintendo games on its website 1fichier.com. They were ordered by Nintendo to remove the pirated games,Read More →
Okay, this might be a few years old, but I just had to share it as I found it totally amazing. A C64 is receiving data not from a floppy disk or cassette, or even a cartridge, but from a vinyl record. In fact, the record has been custom madeRead More →
Some rare Mario games could sell for hundreds of pounds. Paper Mario and Mario Party 3 on the Nintendo 64 and Mario’s Tennis on the Virtual Boy. These are all high-earning titles — if you own them. New research by troubleshooting website GamesErrors.com based on data analyzed from second-hand retailerRead More →
On Yahoo! Finance Report, it was announced that Atari would be acquiring developer and publisher Night Dive Studios renowned for re-introducing retro games such as Doom 64, System Shock and Quake on modern consoles. By April 2023, Atari would have acquired all of Night Dive Studios in order to expandRead More →
