Tag Archives: Retro gaming

Gamescom Experience – Day 2 with Life is Strange 2, Smash Bros Ultimate, Just Cause 4 and Assassins Creed Odyssey

Heya šŸ˜€ Here we are. Back with Part 2 of my Gamescom Experience. Again sorry for the delay. Just like at Day 1, the Day began early for me but this time around there were also the masses of the normal visitors. I started the day off with Live is …

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Tanglewood Out Now on Steam. Coming Soon for Genesis!

Tanglewood (Big Evil Corporation Ltd., $17.99) has officially been released onto Steam! For those who are not aware of what Tanglewood even is, no worries. We’re going to give you the history of it and also tell you what’s in store for the future of Tanglewood! What is Tanglewood? ‘Set …

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Review: Products & Accessories from Castlemania Games

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 …

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Sad days for Emulation as rom sites start to shut down

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 fromĀ NintendoĀ has released this statement earlier today. EmuParadise is Changing “Many of you …

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Review: Data East & Jaleco Multicarts from Retro-Bit

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 …

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Review of Super Retro Trio Plus from Retro-Bit

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 …

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Previously Unreleased N64 Game, ’40 Winks’ is Back!

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

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Review: SN30/SF30 Pro Controller from 8Bitdo

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 …

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Adding ROMs to the Super Retro-Cade

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 …

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Review: Super Retro-Cade from Retro-Bit

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 …

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GameShell,The Open Source/Modular Handheld, Surpasses Kickstarter Goal!

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 …

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