Tag Archives: retro

MOGameCon was alive and kicking for a third year just outside of St.Louis in a city called St.Charles this last Saturday. It is a convention that has been in a space too big and a space that was too small. The convention has lasted one day, then two, then one again. …

Retro-Bit has made plenty of licensed cartridges and multi-carts so far. This time around we will be looking at the upcoming Holy Diver and R-Type Returns Collector’s Editions that are now up for pre-order. These are set to release in this month of August, so if you like what you …

Today’s review melds a little bit of the old school with a touch of the new school. We’re going to be reviewing a Brook Accessory product called the PS3/PS4 Dreamcast Adapter. Clearly, its name implies that you can use a PS3 or a PS4 controller on your Dreamcast. But how …

We have some products today that are a bit of a change of pace for our site. We have covered a lot of retro modifications to improve video output from systems, but those always require internal soldering and such. Today, we’re going into the future with HD Link Cables from …

We’ve all seen our fair share of ways to make old school, retro games look good in a modern age. From OSSC to Framemeister to even just playing them on the Super NT or newer clone system. In this day and age, we have an obvious love of the old …

I have a long sought-after device. I’ve been trying to get a review unit of one of these bad boys for a long time and I finally got one. I found the website Funny Playing and discovered that they had this device. This device is the Retrogame RS-97 and it …

Today I have somewhat of a special treat for retro gaming enthusiasts out there. If you’re one of those people that fell in love with Nintendo’s first ever full 3D system, you should read this all of the way through. And if you’ve always wanted to really get the best …

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 …

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 …

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 …

My Arcade is a company built upon making portable gaming devices or just smaller iterations of larger systems (as well as other fun things). They have a large line of portable systems that can also be plugged into a TV via video out and played that way. Today we have …