Retro gaming

Recently, if you remember, I made an article about RetroGamingArts and their site being a good place to buy modchips in 2018. Well, I thought I would do it again, this time with flash carts. Stone Age Gamer sent me a set of BitBox cases, a Powerbase miniFM, and an …

The Sega Genesis or Mega-drive was a 90 gamer’s dream console. It had a great game library, gorgeous graphics, and it claimed that it could do what “Nintendon’t”. One of those things that it could do that Nintendo couldn’t do on a home console was backwards compatibility. Granted, you had …

Pixel Girl is a streamer across the pond in the UK who, every year has a 24 hour streaming marathon of gaming. 2018 will be no different for her as she does this for charity to help out others. We’re putting up this article to raise awareness for her great …

There are tons of clone, retro systems on the market right now. Some are single systems, some are multi-systems, some are emulator based, some are hardware clones, some are cartridge based, some come with games preinstalled, some do composite, some do 720p HD, and some do 1080p HD. There’s a …

That’s right everyone, the long-lost title 40 Winks is finally going to see a release in 2018 from Piko Interactive!  As soon as you open the Kickstarter page for 40 Winks, you’re greeted with the following, “40 Winks is a Nintendo 64 platformer that was canceled back in 1998 by publisher …

As we march further along in time, there are artifacts that linger from the past. One such magnificent relic is the Nintendo Gamecube. If you want to play the Gamecube on a modern HDTV you’ll find that there are a couple of officially supported methods. You can use composite that …

Everdrives have been around for a long while now, so there’s no doubt that you’ve already heard of them. But if you haven’t, the Everdrive series from Krikzz are flash carts for retro consoles that allow running of your collection of cartridges on one cart. That means if you have shelves of SNES, …

There are always systems sitting on your shelf that don’t get much use. And why? Well most likely you love the system, but have beaten every game in your collection and retro games are expensive now. And maybe you want to play games from other regions but your PS1 can’t …

The Nintendo Switch Homebrew scene has been taking off but like all of them, it’s in slow strides and baby steps, plus needing FW300 doesn’t help when they are getting harder and harder to find. Well, one man couldn’t wait for The Homebrew scene and built his own PiSwitch. With …

Tons of retro game cartridges nowadays are just the game with no box. Or if they’re in a box, it’s a cardboard one that is slowly disintegrating. Or maybe it’s a plastic box from 25 years ago that is slowly crumbling to bits. Naturally, you’ll want to protect your game …

Here at Hackinformer, we review a lot of Switch games so that you can make certain that you only buy and fill your limited Switch space with good games. Today we have another game to satisfy your wonder, and that game is Qbik ($4.99, Forever Entertainment). Some of you may know …

We here at Hackinformer absolutely love getting our hands on new tech and accessories. And when I finally was given an 8bitdo SN30 Pro gamepad, I was absolutely ecstatic and decided I wanted to review it thoroughly. This controller has been out for a little bit now, but that doesn’t …