Choice, the problem that gets everywhere. Too little of anything is a problem of its own, and too much is just that. In retro gaming I have them both; too little in that I am still at the early doors of catching up to everyone else and their myriad accessRead More →
Video game emulators have become increasingly popular due to their ability to cater to retro gamers like us. Initially viewed with suspicion due to legal issues and its grey area of operation, these emulators are now fully embraced as a necessity for gamers. This is because companies like Nintendo andRead More →
Sega’s Sonic Cosmo Fighter is a rare arcade game that saw a very limited release in Japan. The game is a vertical 2D shooter where you control a spaceship piloted by the Blue Blur himself as he battles Dr. Robotnik’s mechanical monstrosities. The arcade cabinet has a spaceship exterior andRead More →
To the developers of the famous arcade emulator MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator): Thank you. Honestly, I have so many things to say, about how your hard work developing this amazing arcade emulator has single-handedly saved and preserved the arcade history, and more besides. Ever since I started playing theRead More →
MAME 0.232 is now available, with the new version featuring the Mrs Dynamite game. This is a strange one. Pac-Man clone Mrs. Dynamite was apparently only available in certain locations in the 1980s, but poor records from the era don’t really tell the story. Whatever the case, Mrs. Dynamite wasRead More →
Featuring SNES like D-Pad, ABXY and Start/Select buttons, the PocketGo S30 is a Chinese-built handheld gaming system that can play PS1, PSP, MAME, Dreamcast, and SNES titles. Believed to feature an A33 ARM Cortex-A7 chip with four 1.2Ghz cores and a Mali400 MP2 GPU, prototypes have 512MB of RAM. TheRead More →
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