Retro gaming news and features
Griffin, the unpopular shooter on the Sega Game Gear in the 1990s, is finally coming to the PC platform. Developer Edia announced that it will cooperate with Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden to release this old game on Steam in the third quarter of 2025, which has become a collector’s dream.
The Famicom disk version of “Märchen Veil” (マルチンヴェール), which was once only released in Japan and published by Sunsoft, has finally received its first complete English translation patch, allowing players who have never understood the plot to take a look at this classic action RPG that “looks like Disney and plays like hell” in 2025.
You read that right, Link no longer saves the princess, he becomes a lawyer to fight lawsuits! The N64’s crazy remake of “Hero of Law”, directed by the famous remake team Newer Team, combines “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” and “Ace Attorney” to create a super ridiculous but extremely attractive courtroom adventure game.
Recently, a well-known nostalgic game Youtuber posted a FC version of the cassette called “Contra Pretty Girl”, claiming to be a beauty version. However, the cover is actually from the “Contra” version of the game “Girl Power”. It is worth noting that the two female characters on the cover of the cassette were hand-painted by Taiwanese artists. They were originally intended only for personal use and collection, but unexpectedly, a Taobao seller stole the entire picture, changed a few words, and mass-produced it for sale!
Thirty years later, this wonderful peripheral that was only launched in Japan and never exported overseas is still fondly remembered by countless players. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Satellaview, the enthusiastic player organization Satellaview+ will hold a special event on April 23, 2025, using emulator + satellite simulation connection + remastered audio to reproduce this most neglected technological experiment of Nintendo.
This week is a treat for players who enjoy delving into the lost history of gaming. Some netizens have successfully discovered a batch of never-before-seen high-definition screenshots from AOL’s past folders – the protagonist is the new Mario game “Mario Smash” that was not released on the Virtual Boy that year.
In 2001, a sci-fi animated film “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” from Japan, produced entirely with CG, was officially released. This movie is not only the first time that the “Final Fantasy” series has stepped onto the Hollywood big screen, but it is also a dream work that series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi devoted himself to writing and directing it himself.
Calling “Dr. Mario” a copycat version of “Tetris”, he bluntly said that Hiroshi Yamauchi “If you can’t buy it, just make another one.” “Mr. Yamauchi once tried to buy “Tetris” from me, but I refused. I even half-jokingly said: “Why don’t you trade Mario for it.” In other words–unless I die, there is no need to talk.”
You read that right – the Nokia N-Gage that needed to “remove the battery to replace the cassette, side ear to make calls”, after nearly 20 years of collapse, actually really have a new work launched, and it’s a physical cassette!
In 1988, “Mega Man 2” was released, completely rewriting the standards of action games on the Famicom platform and becoming one of Capcom’s most representative works. However, many players may not know that this work, which is regarded as a classic among classics, actually took less than three months to complete. Director Rei Kitamura also recently publicly explained the amazing inside story of the development on the social platform X.