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New Rage Of The Dragons, Breakers Revenge And Asuka 120% Games Coming To exA-Arcadia

Time Extension about 20 days ago

Plus a bunch of other titles for the arcade system.During EVO Japan it was announced that new Rage Of The Dragons, Breakers and Asuka 120% titles are coming to the exA-Arcadia arcade system.Rage of the Dragons W will be an update of the original game, whic …
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3 New Atari 2600 Games Have Been Found & Dumped

Time Extension about 3 months ago

The three games were developed by UA Ltd in the early '80s.Three previously unreleased Atari 2600 prototypes have been discovered and dumped online by a poster over on the AtariAge forums (as spotted by John Hancock!).The AtariAge poster, who calls himself …
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Arcade Cabinets Chiseled from Marble That Michaelangelo Would Be Proud Of

Australian Retro Gamer about 5 months ago

Michaelangelo’s David VS Harow’s Arcadia! With engineered stone becoming illegal (it’s about time!) in Australia, we are glad to see that marble is (potentially) still being used in a variety of new ways! These arcade machines chiseled out of …
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Retro Rewind: October 1983 in Computer & Video Games

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

After a bit of an experiment with the pilot episode of this feature back in August 2023, it seems like I’m not the only one who likes having a look back at old copies of magazines from forty years ago, and while I’m still not quite ready to go monthly …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #103

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ll start with something new, and Cocoon, which came to Xbox Game Pass …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #102

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I finished Starfield! And as promised – when I also promised not to …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #101

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I am still playing Starfield more than anything else but last time out I …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #100

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… And yes, I know we’ve reached a hundred of these, but on the basis I did absol …
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Retro Arcadia Gaming Pickups – Summer 2023 Edition

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I’ve got a few new regular features up my sleeve to complement the usual various forms of weekly deep-dives at Retro Arcadia, partly to keep things fresh but also partly to take a bit of the pressure off me trying to juggle writing them alongside juggli …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #99

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’m not sure why it seems to be an unpopular opinion, but having just f …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #98

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… My 2D Sonic journey is almost complete, with just Sonic Blast on Game Gea …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #97

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… We’ll start with something new, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which arr …
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Top Ten Favourite Horizontally-Scrolling Shoot ‘Em Ups

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

As regular readers will know, I do like a list and I do like a shoot ‘em up, so I thought it was high-time I combined these two passions and came up with my top ten shoot ‘em ups, although as I write we’re not quite there yet! Number one and two are …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #96

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Blimey. I’ve nearly done a hundred of these! Am I supposed to be planning something special? Anyway, back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and ne …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight # 95

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ve been away for holiday part two though, so once again, please excuse the h …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #94

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… Just like last week though, we’re going to start with something that’ …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #93

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… Or maybe not a game at all! Don’t worry though because it’s game-rela …
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Oceanhorn 2 finally splashes on PlayStation's shores

Portable Gaming Roundup about 10 months ago

The original Oceanhorn from Cornfox was a cracking Zelda-esque adventure (review) on the Vita and Switch among many platforms thanks to publisher FDG. It featured crystal clear seas, treasure-filled islands, a fun plot with lots of mostly isometric/top-dow …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #92

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… There’s nothing in particular I don’t like about Zanac X Zanac but I …
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My Life With DoDonPachi on PlayStation / Arcade

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

While I’ve been playing shoot ‘em ups of one kind or another for getting on for forty-five years as I write, it’s only really over the last couple of years that I’ve come to appreciate the finer points of the genre, taking a methodical approach th …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #91

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… And while that is the case as always, I have been away on holiday this week so i …
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Discovering Alien: Isolation on Xbox One / Series X

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

When does something become a habit? This one started with Elite Dangerous, the fourth game in the space trading series that started in 1984 and I first experienced on the BBC Micro shortly after. It was on the Atari ST that it would become one of my top t …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #90

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ve really got into baseball of late, and although I’ve got a deep-d …
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Book Review – PC Engine: The Box Art Collection

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

There were all kinds of reasons why I wasn’t going to review PC Engine: The Box Art Collection that are mostly related and can be taken in any order because they all circle around each other… 1. I’d already reviewed ZX Nightmares the same week it ca …