“Preservation” is a term we hear frequently in the retro video game community, and one that is extremely important to the art form of video games. Despite being such a young industry compared to other art forms such as novels, music or film, video games have arguably been some of the most difficult content to […]
Before I start, I offer my apologies to my US friends for the spelling of the words “grey” and “colour”, as well as a big hello to my fellow Australians and English speakers in the UK and Canada. Some time ago I released a series of YouTube videos that covered the basics of colour science […]
Some time back I documented the timeline of a group of an amazing group of people who worked together to bring correct colours to PC Engine / TurboGrafx16 console emulation (for software emulation, FPGA tools like MiSTer, and hardware mods like the Super HD System 3 PRO): PC Engine palette improvements – the amazing people […]
The Mother 4 Fan Game team have released their trailer detailing what their upcoming game will look like. The title is an unofficial sequel to the Japanese-only GBA game Mother 3, itself a sequel to the game released in the west as Earthbound on SNES (and later ported to GBA): The footage shows the teenage […]
A fantastic individual who goes by the username “ForeverMozart” on Reddit, and “GlobalVillageCoffeehouse” on imgur, continues to upload an enormous amount of technical-cultural imagery spanning across 4 decades. Obviously a big part of retro gaming is enjoying playing the games themselves. But I find it incredibly enjoyable personally, and important culturally, to look at the […]
What an incredible time to be a Genesis and MegaDrive fan, with an absolute glut of top tier homebrew projects on the go right now for the classic Sega system! Investigating just a handful of these that have popped up over the last few months: YouTube channel “Pigsy’s Retro Game Dev Tutorials” has released a […]
One day, all the CRTs and all the original consoles will be gone, and I’ll be eternally grateful for the efforts of those who preserved it all. This story began for me with a tweet. David Shadoff posted that the RGB palette on the popular multi-system emulator Mednafen for the PC Engine module (released as […]
ArsTechnica reports that the Strong National Museum of Play have obtained a floppy disk containing id Software’s original Super Mario Bros 3 PC demo. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/museum-obtains-rare-demo-of-id-softwares-super-mario-bros-3-pc-port/ Andrew Borman, the museum’s Digital Games Curator, mentioned that the disk was a part of a larger donation set given to the museum by an unnamed software developer. The developer […]
While much of retro gaming focusses on the tech side of things – whether it’s modding consoles for their best possible video output, or looking at new ways to ensure old games can be played on modern displays and modern hardware – for me the love of retro gaming is really about the history of […]
Tube Time has announced via their Twitter feed the availability of a new, open source graphics card for PC compatible computers with an 8-bit ISA BUS, named “Graphics Gremlin”. i'm happy to announce the release of my latest project, the Graphics Gremlin! it is an 8-bit retro video card for ISA bus computers, and it […]
