For decades, Atari has been a name synonymous with pioneering advancements in the gaming industry. From the beep-boop charm of arcade machines to the pixelated adventures on home consoles, Atari’s legacy is etched into the annals of gaming history. Now, fans and enthusiasts have a new reason to rejoice with the launch of Atari Addict, […] The post Introducing Atari Addict: The Latest offering from Addict Media appeared first on Retro Garden ..read more

Blaze Entertainment continues to delight retro gaming fans with two upcoming releases for its popular Evercade platform, bringing classic arcade action and modern retro titles to new audiences. Here’s a look at what’s coming in December 2024: Kai Magazine Dual-Game Cartridge: Metal Dragon & Life on Mars On October 23, 2024, Blaze Entertainment announced the […] The post Two More Exciting Retro and Indie Game Collections for Evercade announced for December 2024 appeared first on Retro Garden ..read more

Unicopia – the indie retro themed platformer by Squeaky Pig Studios, launched late last month and have announced a competition to win a bartop arcade cabinet to co-incide with the launch of the game. The game – which received positive reviews on Steam – was reviewed on this website, and is well worth checking out […] The post Unicopia launches with a competition to win a one-of-a-kind arcade cabinet appeared first on Retro Garden ..read more

Blaze Entertainment – the makers of the popular Retro themed lineup the Evercade – has announced three new collections within the past week. Along with their announcement in February that 64 Bit Emulation was to come to the system, they’ve followed it up with a flurry of announcements. This article will (hopefully!) do each one justice. Evercade EXP-R and Evercade VS-R   The first announcement was for the Evercade VS-R and EXP-R consoles. Available to pre-order now and released in July, these two consoles are designed to be at the beginner market, as it brings the price point for the mac ..read more

As a kid growing up in the arcades in the early to mid 1990s, there were the classic games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and all sorts of 1980’s platformers which has a unique graphic style. There were other games that had a very similar style of graphic that fit in with the time. I never played those machines, but if I ever turn my garage into an arcade like I threaten to, they will also be there. Video Poker Machines. I think I may have put 20p in one and regretted it ever since. The game was over very quickly. Sure you could win a massive £2.40 by sheer chance, but by and large it was ..read more

As part of the Piko Interactive Collection 4, Blaze Entertainment is happy to announce that Nintendo 64 is the newest console to be emulated by it’s popular handheld system, The Evercade. It announced it late last week as part of it’s latest round of it’s popular cartridges. The cult classic title Glover will be released in its 64-bit version on the upcoming Piko Interactive Collection 4 physical cartridge. Having been rebuilt from scratch by studio Byteswap Labs and Maximilian Wendell, Blaze Entertainment has been able to add some modern optimisations along with refinements for Evercade incl ..read more

While most of us know Sega’s motorsport gaming division due to Sega Rally Championship, not many people know that two years after the release of Sega Rally Championship for arcade machines and one year on from when it was ported to Saturn, Sega had an attempt at another racing genre: the spectacular world of Touring Car Racing. I mean, who dislikes watching the cars that they drive everyday racing side by side in a racetrack? It is the only kind of motor racing in which you see one of the cars competing and say “Yeah that’s my boy”. The game, released in 1996 in the arcades, seems to have the ..read more

Europlatformer. A phrase that strikes fear into many long term games. The up-to-jump collectathons that were a commonplace in the 8 & 16-bit microcomputers have, in many cases, aged as well as a pint of milk. Although wildly popular at the time, returning to them just becomes a bit of a struggle as modern games that use modern control systems are a lot easier to control. So it was great trepidation I approached Soccer Kid. Soccer Kid from apparently-footy-mad Krisalis Software (they did the Manchester United games) features an unnamed child (though later games that were roughly the sa ..read more

I’d like to think I had either explored or made aware of every great game for my systems growing up. Take for example the Super Nintendo. I still own mine (albeit it’s a rather disgusting shade of yellow now), and in the 30 years or so I’d been SNES doing what Megadrive don’t, I thought I’ve played every game that was worth playing on Nintendo’s classic system: either I had it at the time, rented it from video stores, or emulated the ones that passed me by. That wasn’t the case when – 29 years after it was released – I played Pocky & Rocky for the first time. I definitely remember hea ..read more

Eyebrows were raised when the Namcot Collection was released a few years ago. Sure, everybody is familiar with Namco – with their excellent arcade games (read our Tekken 2 Review, Point Blank Review, and Aqua Jet Review), but Namcot? Is that correct? I first became aware of Namcot when I began my retro game collection, and picking up Famicom games. A lot of them were branded with Namcot on their cartridges, which were odd. So this got me thinking – who are Namcot? Where was it used? And why did it not reach us? Well, after a bit of digging I began to piece together puzzle. The official answer ..read more