Items tagged with retro gaming
It appears as if the Nintendo Wii U is a hardware failure waiting to happen, which is less than ideal now that Nintendo no longer repairs the console for customers. According to information posted on X by the Retro Blast account, the console is starting to die on owners. To avoid this fate, it’s recommended that...
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The retro gaming experts at Analogue are at it again, this time bringing the Nintendo 64 into the modern age with the Analogue 3D console it teased last year. The company already has a strong track record of bringing back older consoles in style, having released their modern interpretations of the Gameboy, NES, SNES...
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GameStop continues to look for news ways to evolve and stay afloat as it announces it is turning select locations into retro stores. The old take on new stores will focus on retro console classics such as the Sega Dreamcast, and Xbox 360.
The move is not the first attempt by the iconic game store to stay afloat. In...
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ColecoVision has launched a full-size arcade cabinet over 40 years after it revolutionized home gaming. The first ColecoVision console was released in 1982, introducing classic arcade games like Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, and Venture.
Classic console gaming is making a comeback as of late, with Atari having already...
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This November will mark two years since Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration released to PC and console, bringing with it a bevy of retro games, videos, and enlightening interviews. The developer behind that collection, Digital Eclipse, is now getting ready to launch a sizable DLC containing a bunch more games spread...
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Some four decades ago, developers of the game Tarzan for the ColeVision console were ready to release a version for the Atari 2600, but it never saw the light of day. Why? Crummy timing, for the most part—the infamous video game crash of 1983 upended the industry for a spell, and games like Tarzan fell by the wayside...
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Today the console wars are largely fought between Microsoft (Xbox One X|S) and Sony (PlayStation 5), and you can throw Nintendo (Switch) in there as well. But arguably the first console skirmish of real significance took place several decades ago, with Atari and Intellivision duking it out. Now over 40 years later...
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An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a handful of other iconic Atari video games, such as a Pong arcade game, and a Space Race arcade game.
While games like Space Invaders and Pong are extremely simplistic by...
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We've reported on handheld gaming systems quite a bit recently thanks to the boom in the market spurred by the success of the Steam Deck. Products from pre-existing vendors like Ayaneo, GPD, and OneNotebook have been battling with newer machines from larger OEMs like Asus, Lenovo, and most recently, MSI. Today's...
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AYANEO Retro Mini PC AM01: Starting at $149 Ayaneo's first-ever mini-PCs sport a cute retro aesthetic and good-enough performance for desktop use or casual and retro gaming. Cute Macintosh Throwback Aesthetics Efficient & Nearly Silent Operation Capable Desktop Performance Accessible Pricing Power-Limited...
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The original Doom and Doom II games have a rich and thriving mod community that continues to this day. The title just celebrated its 30th anniversary yesterday, and to commemorate the occasion, one of the very best "megawads" of all time—that's community parlance for a level set with a full game's worth of maps—has...
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In an age where video games look near photo-realistic, it is easy to forget where it all began. The days when arcades were where kids hung out for hours on end and Atari was king. Thankfully, there are still ways to go back in time, virtually at least, and feel the nostalgia of those early games with retro...
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You hear it said all the time: one of the best reasons to own a Steam Deck is for emulating classic games. The Steam Deck is fundamentally a PC, but despite this, you'll rarely hear anyone talk about playing classic PC games on it. The reason is simple: the Steam Deck's primary controls are gamepad-based, and enjoying...
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If you're reading HotHardware, there's a solid chance that you recall a time when device makers were going completely insane with the designs of their hardware. Just about everything now is a very boring slab or block with inoffensively-rounded corners and a neutral color scheme, but around the turn of the millennium...
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A Redditor has shared a video showcasing an exquisitely made palm sized retro-PC. The ‘desktop’ looks very much like one of the beige machines we used to covet back in the 90s, alongside a vivid ‘Sony Trinitron’ CRT. However, the true scale of this design is shown by the placement of a penny, and we also see this cute...
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By my count, there are about a million ways to satiate your appetite for retro gaming, be it through emulation on modern hardware or re-releases of old school systems with features adapted for today. Make that a million and one, actually—the current possessor of the Atari brand has teamed up with PLAION to release the...
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My Arcade is teaming up with Atari to launch the Atari Gamestation Pro, a sleek console with hundreds of delightfully retro games built in, made easily playable on modern TVs and monitors. Obviously there have been multiple attempts to capitalize on Atari nostalgia, though according to My Arcade, this is the first...
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A video gaming enthusiast has overclocked a Super Game Boy. In case you are not familiar with this device, a Super Game Boy (SGB) is a Game Boy (GB) in a cartridge format. It fits into a Super Nintendo (SNES) and allows gamers to enjoy Game Boy games on the big screen. The ancient gaming device features a custom...
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Microsoft's purchase of Activision-Blizzard is practically a done deal at this point, and while it does result in the formation of a gargantuan gaming juggernaut the likes of which the world has hardly seen, there are some good things that could feasibly come out of the conglomerate entity. Microsoft's game publishing...
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The iconic McDonald's character Grimace celebrated his 52nd birthday earlier this week (feel old yet?). The hamburger chain has decided to earn geeky PR points by using this occasion to launch a brand new Game Boy Color game. While the retro platform choice might be confusing, it is good to see that the full game is...
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If you are of a certain age, it is almost guaranteed that you played Pac-Man in the arcade at some point—and probably quite a bit of it, too. Pac-Man was a fever that swept the nation in early 1980s, and millions of people put hundreds of millions of quarters into the machines across the US. There was even a hit song...
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We love new tech and gaming, but we cannot ignore our roots. As such, it's not a surprise to many when we say that we also love retro. We get excited when we hear about a new remaster of a classic game, especially when it's a remaster of a title in the legendary Castlevania series. It may not be from Konami, but a fan...
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