With 296 titles to choose from, the North American library of Nintendo 64 games can provide years of entertainment for the avid gamer. When made into a challenge, however, one person was able to rise up and take the trophy. As announced by Essentially Sports, Twitch streamer AceGamerSam from CanadaRead More →
A seller from France has priced a collection of over 2,200 video game consoles on eBay for almost $1 million (USD). This includes consoles ranging from the very first PlayStation to the Nintendo Switch. They’re only able to ship within France, which is understandable considering the amount of items thatRead More →
Could those retro game disks you see for sale on eBay actually be worth buying? Do floppy disks still work? A recent English-language tweet from Japan’s digital minister Taro Kono states that his government’s use of floppy disks is set to end, a decade after Sony stopped production of theRead More →
SEGA has confirmed that it is partnering with a motion picture production company to develop a movie based on 1990s adventure beat’em up Comix Zone. In addition, a film of cult dance battler Space Channel 5 is also said to be in development. While I’ve never played Space Channel 5,Read More →
Everyone loves GoldenEye 007 right now, so what better way to celebrate the Nintendo 64 classic than with a marking of bookt? From Boss Fight Books comes Alyse Knorr’s The Making of GoldenEye 007, a look at the classic FPS in book form. Launched on Kickstarter recently, the book isRead More →
We talk about GoldenEye 007 a lot, but there is a reason for that: it is one of the most influential games of its era. FPS games all the way back to DOOM make a crucial diversion via GoldenEye 007, a game developed by a young team at Rare inRead More →
Created by Paweł Zadrożniak from Poland, the Floppotron 3.0 is the latest incarnation of a “PC hardware orchestra” that comprises floppy disk drives (hence the name), hard disk drives, and scanners. If you know your retro hardware, you’ll know that all of these devices are noisey. The big upgrade ofRead More →
The COVID-19 pandemic affected millions of people and disrupted life on a global scale. Lockdowns, restrictions, event cancellations and mask wearing had become a common thing and because of the spread of the virus, our movements had been restricted and there was little we could do but hope that theRead More →
MetaGravity Studios, the company behind Retro Arcade NFT Collection hosted on OpenSea, has inadvertently (we hope) linked the atrocious nature of Crypto and NFT scams with the whole-hearted, passionate world of retro game preservation. Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are VERY new in this generation, and they cleverly link economics and technologiesRead More →
