Author: Danny Neleman

If you are an R-Type or shmup fan, you are currently well served. We recently reviewed R-Type Delta HD Boosted and we’ve already covered the reveal of R-Type Dimensions III, the upcoming installment in IREM’s long-running horizontal shmup series. Yesterday, Strictly Limited, the limited-run physical retail branch of ININ Games, added the physical editions for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and PC to its webshop. Pre-orders for the Collector’s Edition open on February 9, 2026. The Special Edition is already available to order. The Special Edition is priced at €59, while the Collector’s Edition comes in at €199. R-Type…

For many players, Street Racer is little more than a generic Mario Kart clone. For PC gamers in the 1990s, however, it was a genuinely enjoyable alternative and one of the stronger racers available on the platform at the time. I only discovered later that the PC, Saturn and PlayStation ports were effectively afterthoughts, released nearly two years after the original SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis versions. Despite that, they can reasonably be viewed as early remasters rather than straight conversions. Now, QUByte Interactive brings together both the original releases and one of the later 32-bit versions in a single compilation.…

In the 1980s, almost every viable home computer platform produced at least one Indiana Jones inspired single screen platformer. Every gamer brought up in the 80s can come up with at least a couple of examples. Pitfall! on the Atari VCS, Rick Dangerous and Caverns of Khafka on the Commodore 64, while the Apple II had Aztec. On top of that came the officially licensed Indiana Jones games, of which dozens were released during that era. Parker Brothers’ Montezuma’s Revenge (not to be confused with traveller’s diarrhea, although the pun was clearly intended) arrived in the post-VCS Atari era as…

The R-Type franchise has been a big part of the school of horizontal shoot em up franchises that dominated both the arcades and consoles in the late 80s and early to mid 90s. While the series started out in the arcades, R-Type feels more like a console-first series to me. It has seen many iterations across almost every meaningful console and home computer, but the most memorable in the early years were the Super Famicom and SNES-only Super R-Type, which was the renamed home port of R-Type II, and the very faithful Amiga port. I keep wondering why I associate…

If you are not part of the STG community it is likely that you are not familiar with the Sonic Wings series. Its initial arcade release never gained much traction outside Japan. The home port on SNES was released under the name Aero Fighters and had a very limited print run in the US. It is now considered a holy grail in the collectors scene and depending on grade it can cost between 800 and 2,500 dollars. This leaves the PAL version as the only region where it was widely available and still affordable on eBay. The second and third…

If we go by this and last year’s releases, we are living in the age of the retro arcade racer. We need two hands to count the number of retro rally games that grab back to the 90s arcade and PlayStation era alone. The same goes for the kart subgenre. Between all this, some try not to recreate games from the past, but to recreate the nostalgia of motorsports itself. Our subject at hand, Formula Legends, does exactly this. It projects an arcade-like, mini-fied and Micro Machines-style approach on the complete history of F1 racing, all the way back to…

Do you know what I really miss these days? Truly shitty games.Yes, I enjoy a bit of self-flagellation from time to time. Take a good look at our review archive: some of the games we’ve covered might be uninspired, clinging to current trends, or just a bit lackluster. But structurally dysfunctional, completely broken, or cheap movie tie-in cash grabs? We hardly run into them anymore. And honestly, we all need to vent once in a while. YouTube legend James Rolfe, through his foul-mouthed alter ego The Angry Video Game Nerd persona, built an empire on tackling those disasters head-on, ranting,…

At a glance, Edge of Allegoria (reviewed on Nintendo Switch) looks like a cutesy, emulated Game Boy title, almost screen-by-screen lifted from the orginal Game Boy’s Pokémon games. Dive deeper, though, and what unfolds is a giddy, beefy, adult-themed satire adventure RPG. Let’s be upfront about it. It may look like the kind of game an enthusiastic mid-30s dad would play with their kids to enlighten them on the video game wonders of their youth, as it does a great job capturing the essence of the Game Boy era. The developer of Edge of Allegoria, however, made this one specifically…

PLAION REPLAI has announced that four officially licensed arcade classics are set to arrive on November 21, 2025, for Atari’s 2600+ and 7800+ consoles. The line-up includes Galaga, PAC-MAN Double Feature, Dig Dug, and Xevious, all fully compatible with the original Atari 7800 hardware. The collection is part of PLAION’s “Unlock 1982” initiative, highlighting a landmark year in arcade history. In 1982, PAC-MAN first made its way to the Atari 2600, while Galaga lit up U.S. arcades, and Dig Dug and Xevious debuted in Japan. More than four decades later, these releases bring that moment back to life in cartridge…

Rayman is stepping back into the spotlight with a new cartridge release that looks both backward and forward. To mark the 30th anniversary of Ubisoft’s limbless hero, retro hardware company ModRetro has partnered with Ubisoft to reissue the Rayman Game Boy Color version as a physical cartridge. It is not just a celebration of the past but also a way to bring the handheld title back into circulation for collectors and retro fans. This new edition is not a digital port or a simple emulation package. Instead, ModRetro is producing cartridges that work on original Nintendo hardware. That means if…