The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world forever (www.engadget.com)
The Analogue Pocket now comes in a rainbow of classic Game Boy colors (www.theverge.com)
Quake II on the PlayStation 1 is an incredible port. Here is why. (youtu.be)
This one was really an incredible port and although I also had the PC version, I still played a lot of this PSX port on split screen with my little brother at the time.
Spin machines: the curious history of video games on vinyl (www.theguardian.com)
Another NES fan art 😺 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It isn’t an original game for NES but one of my favorites (and really hard 😊). Do you know any retro game characters that I can turn into women?
New Atari 2600 is coming in November (www.forbes.com)
DOOM 32X Resurrection Gets Another Update (www.retrorgb.com)
After silence for a good while, I thought they were done with this project, but apparently not. Additional effects, a lot of optimizations, and the bosses were added back in....
BoxyPixel is something else (i.imgur.com)
Picked up a BoxyPixel GBA SP and managed to find an original copy of Emerald to compensate for the ones someone stole from me so many years ago
New 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard inspired by NES and Famicom (www.8bitdo.com)
87 keys, volume knob, hot-swappable PCB, Dual Super Buttons (two massive programmable A and B buttons) and it looks amazing.
Nightdive's Quake 2: Enhanced, out now (www.gog.com)
Just like Quake 1, if you already own Quake 2, the enhanced version is available as a free update. Although unlike Quake 1, Quake 2: Enhanced is also available on GOG day 1....
Great list of games for one of my favourite systems - the GBA. What are your picks? (www.one37pm.com)
Thanks to a couple friends with a podcast, I learned about the neGcon from Namco. Have you used this thing?
Friendship with Super Mario RPG ended. Now Tetris is my best friend. (lemmy.world)
at what point do you draw the line for "retro"?
And what category does the PS2, Wii, Xbox, Nintendo DS/3DS fit into? They aren’t retro, but they’re not really “modern” either...
Issue 4 of Quarter Up, a free pinball/retro arcade newsletter (sopuli.xyz)
Some retro arcade material in this fourth issue:...
Reviewing *ALL 71* Atari Lynx Games!!! (youtu.be)
Anybody else love Soul Reaver 2? (assets-prd.ignimgs.com)
Played this game back back in the early 2000s era. I wish they made games like this again. Combat was a bit clunky but the music, story line, and voice acting were fantastic. Obviously left an impression nearly 20 years later.
The battlestation (lemmy.world)
Vigilante: A Home Port Comparison (i.imgur.com)
Vigilante was a 1988 Irem coin-op, a kind of spiritual successor to 1984’s Kung Fu Master/Spartan X. Like the 1984 title, Vigilante had a simple premise - you walk to the right and beat up fools in front of you and behind you. There’s no pseudo-third-dimension, no in and out, it’s just straight up single plane brawling,...
Decided to play this game for once. (images2.imgbox.com)
anyone here fancy themself some GameCube?
by far my favorite console of all time since i first got it, i love pretty much everything on it. someone actually ported a game to the gamecube in the modern day (albeit it needs Swiss, a homebrew app to run) and it’s just so cool to see that it refuses to die
Has anyone given the Nano a go? I'm curious, but worried it's actually just too small for anything but novelty. (retrododo.com)
Custom NES Lego inspired game controller (lemmy.world)
I wanted my first Lemmy post to be memorable, so I chose this....