A few years ago, the idea of retro gear like TheA500 Mini and the Evercade even existing was far-fetched. But in 2023, both have been nominated for gongs at the MCV awards! While both (alongside the Playdate) were beaten by Valve’s Steam Deck (itself capable of some considerable retro magic),Read More →
One of the key draws of the Evercade EXP is the option to rotate it 90 degrees to play shooters in portrait mode. It’s a fetaure the Evercade VS sadly lacks – but that could all be about to change. Responding to a Facebook group post observing “We need VSRead More →
A seller on eBay has uploaded details for a Pokémon Colosseum Pak which includes the game Pokémon Colosseum, a black GameCube console with a controller and a Nintendo GameCube memory card. But here is the shock factor: it is listed at £8,000! That’s right, this GameCube Pak in a “new”Read More →
Fancy something to read? Here are our thoughts on the free SEGA-focused Mega Book Collection. We are living at a very strange time. You would see things that you would never ever have expected to happen like companies making decisions which doesn’t suit their philosophy for whatever reason. Sega, theRead More →
One last physical release is being teased, for the 3DS, in the wake of Nintendo eShop’s official shutdown. As a company known for producing limited edition physical-format titles for purists and collectors, Limited Run Games, has carefully timed this final goodbye-release to ride the wave of attention, as Nintendo followsRead More →
What is Retro Games Ltd planning next? On numerous occasions over the past few months the team behind TheC64 Mini and TheA500 Mini have teased an upcoming device. Various ideas have been suggested. Could it be a BBC Micro Mini or some other Acorn computer? Could it be a ZXRead More →
New Wave™ are adding to their family of Replicade mini cabinets this great little Atari licensed machine. It looks, plays, and controls like Atari’s classic Missile Command Arcade Machine and all in perfect miniature at 1/16th the original size. The original was released by Atari in 1980, designed by theRead More →
The Nintendo GameCube features a pair of memory card slots for save games. In May 2023, 8BitMods releases the MemCard PRO GC, a GameCube memory card with a microSD slot and a USB slot. (It also has Wi-Fi.) The idea behind this is simple: that you’ll be able to runRead More →
Valve’s Steam Client will no longer run on older versions of Windows from January 2024. The main reason for this is an incompatibility with Google Chrome on older versions of Windows. Chrome is required for several new features in Steam, the introduction of which has necessitated this decision. Here isRead More →
