A Kickstarter campaign is live for a physical book covering arcade shoot-em-ups. Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide – Shoot’ Em Up Collection Volume 1 covers 66 games across 136 pages and is planned to be the first of 4 books in the series. The Kickstarter page is full of images fromRead More →
Following on from its success with the RGB Dual, retro emulation suite creators at Recalbox have been working on a new project, ModderBrothers. This is a new Kickstarter that starts tomorrow an aims to enable retro gear to be brought up to date, combining existing mods with original and inovaiveRead More →
Ninty Media’s Kickstarter Campaign for an unofficial companion book to the GameBoy smashed its goal of £15,000 in less than half a day! At the time of writing, the campaign has raised £23,457 with 25 days to go. It seems Ninty Media’s ‘GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion’ has struck aRead More →
Just imagine if the Nintendo Entertainment System had been capable of online play (or if we’d had an internet suitable for it back then). Well, imagine no more – it’s happening, thanks to the Super Tilt Bro. cartridge, a game that comes with built-in Wi-Fi for the NES! It stillRead More →
Back in February, we reported that Ross Kilgariff, the solo Developer of HarleQuest!, was planning a Kickstarter campaign to fund his project. The Kickstarter campaign is now live, and with 18 days to go, I’m happy to report it’s tantalizingly close to reaching its funding goal. At the time ofRead More →
Sci-Fi Horror RPG/Dungeon Crawler, Hibernaculum has just reached its funding goal on Kickstarter. The developer, Wormwood Studios, is most well-known for its atmospheric point & click adventures Strange Land and Primordia, but this time around, the studio is building a different type of game altogether. Hibernaculum is a first-person dungeonRead More →
It’s very honourable when independent developers continue the legacy of retro consoles and gaming by developing games for older systems. It’s a breath of fresh air for that system as well as staying true to that classic gaming feel. Just over a week ago, Flying Arrows 2: The Healer’s JourneyRead More →
Popular retro podcast The Retro Hour has announced an upcoming Retro Hour book, which has launched on Kickstarter. If you’re like me, you probably check out at least one retro computing or gaming podcast every week. While I’m not listening to comedy shows or critically reviewing my own shows (TheRead More →
A few years ago French writer Nicolas Deneschau proposed a book about Monkey Island to publishers Third Éditions. This month, a Kickstarter has been launched to translate The Mysteries of Monkey Island into English, and at the time of writing has raised almost four times the required backing! Founded inRead More →
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