Tag Archives: Retro gaming

We got in touch with Castlemania Games recently and talked with CastlemaniaRyan to get our hands on some of their products to review. He didn’t disappoint and today, we’ll talk about the pros and cons of these products that he sent over and how you can get your grubby little …

Recently ROM sites such as EmuParadise have been getting hit with major lawsuits by Nintendo. Sad days have come for emulation sites many times before and many have fallen due to lawsuits. EmuParadise being hit by a suite from Nintendo has released this statement earlier today. EmuParadise is Changing “Many of you …

Today’s review is of a product that is something more of an oddity. But when I say oddity, I mean it as in it is odd because it’s out of the ordinary. It’s a product that is something so rare and new, but gives you the urge to smack your …

Today we have a fun little treat, it’s something that you don’t ever see often, multicarts! If you’re unfamiliar with what a multicart is, we’ll get that out of the way right quick. It doesn’t actually mean that there are more than one cartridges involved. It really should be called …

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 …

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 …

If you happened upon and purchased the Super Retro-cade from Retro-Bit, you were definitely happy about the 90 included games. There are just so many of them and this time around, they aren’t vaporware or shovelware. The system is just leaps and bounds better than their previous foray into the …

We now have reached a world where retro Microconsoles are hitting us from every side. Some of them great like the NES and SNES Classic Editions. Some of them are not so great, like the Retro-Bit Generations that came back a while ago. Can Retro-Bit gain their footing and be …

This article may seem late in the game to be able to get the gifts in time for Christmas. But fear not! With Amazon Prime, you can have 2-day shipping and that will get it to you before Christmas (depending on when you read this article). And even if you …

We have another special treat for you today. We wanted to talk about the GameShell. It’s a modular handheld that is also open source. It had a Kickstarter campaign of $50,000 and at the time of this writing, it’s sitting at $123,025 with a solid 30 days remaining! These are …

For any of you that have been waiting for multiple emulation options on the XBox One your time has come. Retrix is here and thanks to the hard work of GBATemp member @Absestos. Retrix is a port of LibRetro that uses some of the LibRetro cores to UWP, which both …