Retro gaming

Netflix’s smash hit sci-fi series Stranger Things which is set in the 1980’s has been treated to a NES-style rendition by CineFix in 8-bit Cinema. Well known for their recreated Jurassic Park, Blade Runner and Hunger Games 8-Bit movies, it was only a matter of time until Stranger Things got a justified retro treatment. Directed …

We’re sure we all remember what it was like to head down to your local arcade to play Pac-Man with your friends. Arcade machines were awesome back then due to the countless hours of fun they provided. Take a step back in time and bask in the awesomeness that is …

A few weeks back at Maker faire Detroit 2016 I got an awesome chance to meet the team of TinyCircuits! So I felt that I must get an interview with them, thus begins my wonderful opportunity talking with Ken Burns Founder and President and also lead engineer Ben Rose along …

Yes, this tiny PC is turning into a fine little emulation station as well as simple portable gaming station. Currently, they are still working with the X5-Z8550 version and have been testing Games like Left4Dead, Diablo 3, Prototype, Devil May Cry 4 and Dungeon Fighter to showcase how good the …

Today we have some VERY BIG NEWS! Even if the contents of the news come in a very small package. In case you haven’t seen already, the internet exploded today when Nintendo announced they would be giving us all time machines! Well, kind of. You won’t see any neon tie-dye …

  So yet again, I have a bit of odd news from the past come across my desk and this time, it’s for the Nintendo 64! I am of course talking about the Nintendo 64DD Disk Drive. According to Wikipedia:DD The 64DD (Japanese: 64DD Hepburn: Rokujūyon Dī Dī), colloquially referred …

I know you all are like WTF but yes I said Nintendo–PlayStation & Super Boss Gaiden. Some of us know that back before the N64 & PlayStation were released there was a system that if it was made the gaming world as we know it may not have existed like it …

Sega Saturn was a great system for its time but didn’t have the life spam the PlayStation did and back then region lock was a real big problem, unlike today. So we had modchips to bypass the region lock and of course if could play burned games. Now as time goes …

Over the weekend I had a chance to sit down and play around with Raspberry Pi3. The pi3 is quite nice, with it having wifi & Bluetooth built in, plus a little boost in performance compared to the Pi2. What I normally do with a new Pi is I like to put it …

The Dolphin emulator hasn’t seen an update in quite some time but today they have released their new version 5.0 and it has some major improvements. If you are new to this emulator, Dolphin is a free and open-source video game console emulator for the GameCube, Wii, and Triforce that runs on Windows, OS …

So recently I made a great find, an original GameBoy DMG from 1989 on a local flea market for 2 bucks only. Solely the screen cover and batteries were missing but aside from that it still looked great! And since all I wanted were some internal parts for another project, …

Most of us remember Ecco the dolphin games from the Sega Genesis and then it made its way the the Sega CD but never officially made its way to the Sega Saturn. The last time you might have seen a Ecco game was on the Dreamcast and it was also …