Tag Archives: Retro gaming

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 …

Well, it seems the team at libretro cannot be beaten! So on June 29th, they released the alpha of a new core for Retroarch the Dolphin (Windows/Linux) (Alpha release!) Now you should be reminded that this still an alpha release so a lot of work needs to be done fine-tune and …

Today Nintendo confirmed the long awaited SNES Classic that all were expecting and revealing all of the preinstalled games as well as the launch date and price. The predecessor to this was the NES Mini which, to date, is really hard to get for a reasonable price since it was sold …

Everyone here still knows Atari? Well if not I don’t really blame you since they have been out of the console business for a really long time (since 1993 exactly) and are currently only working on Mobile Games. This seems to change though as a new website with a Video …