Two of my favourite video game publications, both of them UK-based, Edge and Retro Gamer has always offered interesting perspective on the past and present of UK’s video-games industry. Now, a couple of filmmakers have announced that they are about to come up with a documentary about the same subject matter, and I say it’s [...]

Warner Bros has just released a collection of 10 classic arcade titles, called the Midway Arcade app, for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone and it’s available now on the iTunes App Store for just 99 cents. The 10 titles include Spy Hunter, Rampage, Defender, Joust, Root Beer Tapper, Arch Rivals, and 4 skills-based games, [...]

I bumped into a rather interesting website when I was doing some research for an earlier blog post, and it’s actually the web version of a classic Apple II turn-based strategy game called Taipan!. How cool is that? The original game was inspired by James Clavell’s novel of the same name and had players sailing [...]

A game such as Stardash for the iPhone represents a confluence of ideas and inspirations that make the game such an interesting one to pick up and play. First up, players would definitely notice the green-ish (apparently I’m a bit colour blind, so don’t blame me for getting the shade wrong) graphics/art style which is [...]

We’ve featured before several of rickonami‘s tribute videos for a number of popular Konami titles (check out our previous post). This time around, the prolific animator and special FX artist has come up with a short tribute intro for Contra! There are a couple of things, I mean, personalities, to look out for in this [...]

Fans of the Pepsi Throwback Atari Arcade, and especially fans of the old Tempest arcade game would be happy to know that Tempest has been released on the Facebook app as of yesterday. For those not in the know, Tempest was a shmup and has the distinction of being the first video game to introduce [...]

What I learned a couple of days ago was that a year before Ralf Jones (a.k.a Paul) was kicking ass in SNK’s Ikari Warriors, he was the main character of an earlier SNK arcade title, T.N.K III. Players are tasked with destroying a weapon on an island, and to do so, will need to eliminate [...]

Consoles were pretty hard to come by back during the day from where I came from, so in order to build up a some sort of retro gaming knowledge repository, I frequently read Retro Gamer magazine, a publication originating from the UK. At one time, I was into buying old 2nd hand consoles like the [...]

The retro-gaming experts DotEmu has announced a massive deal with Activision which will see DotEmu bringing back 3 games from the Gabriel Knight series, along with VAMPIRE: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and Dark Reign. The games will be offered for the first time in multi-lingual editions, sans DRM and available for Windows XP, Vista and [...]

The retro gaming revivalists DotEmu are now setting their sights on bringing back P-47 The Phantom Fighter (a.k.a P-47 The Freedom Fighter). Previously produced by Jaleco on the arcade cabinet, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Super NES, P-47 The Phantom Fighter will be available in July on the iTunes App Store! [...]