If you’re tired of vanilla kart racers that stick to just… racing, then get ready to inject some pure, unadulterated 90s chaos back into your life. QUByte Interactive has announced that the cult classic Street Racer Collection (QUByte Classics) is heading to PC via Steam, bringing a pioneering mix ofRead More →
Is “Sovietborgs” the most retro shooter-sounding name imaginable?! UPDATE: Sovietborgs crowdfunder is now live, and there is also a playable browser-based demo! If retro run-and-guns is your thing, this upcoming Indiegogo might be worth keeping an eye on. Developed by Spanish retro developer Retro Sumus, Sovietborgs is a top-down shooterRead More →
One of the great overlooked eras of gaming is the early PC years. While largely inferior to home computer and console cousins, the library of MS-DOS games is considerable. For many years the domain of flight sims and god games, later MS-DOS games included arcade conversions and driving games. AsRead More →
Forget emulation and virtualization. If you’re a hardcore MS-DOS or Windows 9x gamer, you want a genuine x86 system. Forget wheezing old IBM compatibles, Time machines, Compaqs, and Gateway systems. There is an alternative: the weeCee. Essentially a single-board computer (SBC) with an SD card slot, PS/2 mouse and keyboardRead More →
Playing retro PC games has never been easier than with the browser-based DOS_Deck tool.Read More →
Promising to stick MS-DOS games in your pocket, the Pocket 386 is an imported classic PC handheld that has sold out on AliExpress. Last year we brought you news of the Weecee, a mini PC designed to run MS-DOS and Windows 95 games. Well, the Pocket 386 (a smaller version,Read More →
One of the greatest 16-bit era real-time strategy titles was Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. After morphing into the Command & Conquer series, the Dune II game was forgotten for years – until now. What is this new Dune II game? Dune II – The Maker is anRead More →
Before Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon, there was the board game known simply as 1830. The full title – 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons – was a 1986 railroad building board game by Avalon Hill that, along with their earlier release, Rail Baron inspired Sid Meier to design Railroad Tycoon. Buoyed byRead More →
Think Civilization was the beginning? Think again: in 1980, Avalon Hill released a board game, called Civilization. (This is the game upon which the Sid Meier classic was loosely based.) But a few years later, in 1991, the company released an expansion pack, Advanced Civilization. To confuse matters more, inRead More →
