What did the original Amiga design team do after the Amiga went to market and Commodore wasted the opportunity? Jay Miner went back to designing medical devices, but three other members of the team designed the first color handheld game The post Atari Lynx: The first color handheld game console appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
SEGA was the last to arrive to the handheld battle of the early 1990s, with the Game Gear launching the year after the Nintendo Game Boy and Atari Lynx made the scene. The Game Gear shared a lot with the SEGA Master System, and that extends even to its software library. Still, some of those games played better on one format than the other for various reasons, so don’t expect this list of favorites to map exactly to my Master System list. And hey, the console had plenty of exclusives of its ...| Post Game Content
Sometimes one’s memory plays tricks on them, and that’s what happened here for me. I remember the NEOGEO releasing after the Super Famicom/NES, not before. It actually came out several months before! That makes it the next console for me to list my favorite games for. A reminder that I will include multiple entries from a series, even if that means they might dominate a list. I’m mentioning that because it’s a very real possibility with this console. House rules on this list are the u...| Post Game Content
In the early 1990s, the games industry found itself on the edge of a revolution. For more than a decade, developers had battled against the limited capacities of floppy disks. Graphics, audio, and every line of code had to be squeezed, trimmed, and compressed until barely fitting into a handful of megabytes. With the arrival […]| Retro365
Born in 1946, Jeffrey Stanton was a child of the post–World War II generation, growing up in an era when science and technology were shaping both industry and imagination. From an early age, he was drawn to how things worked, an interest that pointed him toward engineering. After graduating from James Madison High School in […]| Retro365
In the spring of 1980, Ken and Roberta Williams were unknowingly about to change gaming. Working out of their small home in Simi Valley, California, their first game, Mystery House, had just been c…| Retro365
38 years ago this week, The Legend of Zelda was released in the United States. Today, people are divided on what kind of game it was, but in 1987, no one cared. It was the first time anyone had seen The post Legend of Zelda released August 22, 1987 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.| The Silicon Underground
The Atari Lynx did not have a massive library, particularly if we only look at what was made available during its original commercial lifespan. With that said, unofficial releases started almost immediately after Atari dropped the handheld. The Atari Lynx was far from a success back in the day, but it has become a cult favorite of many handheld gaming fans. This was an easier console to pick my favorite games for in some ways, but a challenging one in others. Like usual, these are my favorite...| Post Game Content
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The Commodore Amiga was one of the last independently designed home computers before the market was swamped by the IBM PC and its compatibles. First launched in 1985 it was initially marketed as a business machine. But its revolutionary graphics and sound capabilities, teamed with its complete lack of success in the business computing arena, soon saw it morphing into a top end gaming system with success in the video and sound industries as well.| Bytes N Bits
The next gaming platform on my timeline for these rankings is Nintendo’s Game Boy. It launched in 1989 and had an incredibly long retail life, which translates out to a very large library. I’ve picked my favorites from that selection, and it was not easy. A couple of rules, as usual. Only games released during the original commercial life of the platform count, but all regions are fair game. No modern homebrews, though. I’ve made one tough executive decision, too. Only original Game Boy...| Post Game Content
Lawrence Hollandfrom archaeology to a World War II trilogy A new mini-documentary that tells the story of Lawrence Holland, a man whose path from prehistoric archaeology to pioneering combat flight…| Retro365
This is a bit of an update on the PlayStation 4 modding state.| Bytes N Bits
It took me a little while to decide what to do about the PC Engine. It felt wrong to not include the CD games at all, since they’re a huge part of the console’s identity. But if I included the PC Engine CD games with the Hucard games, then surely the only fair thing to do would be to include the SEGA-CD and 32X games in the Mega Drive ranking. That didn’t feel right either. So in the end, I split everything up. That means this list is just my favorite TurboGrafx/PC Engine CD games. I al...| Post Game Content
Before starting detailed write-ups on some of the games released under SSI’s short-lived RapidFire label, I wanted to give a brief overview of the brand and the titles it introduced between 1982 and 1983. By 1982, Strategic Simulations Inc. had firmly established itself as the premier publisher of computer wargames. Founded in 1979 by Joel […]| Retro365
By 1982, the home computer software market was evolving fast. What had begun just a few years earlier as a freewheeling space dominated by garage developers and bedroom coders was now becoming an i…| Retro365
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With a modded Xbox360 you can do much more than just play Xbox 360 games. Whether you’re using a hard modded console or running the Bad Update exploit you have access to a whole range of homebrew emulators to run retro console and computer games directly on your Xbox.| Bytes N Bits
Time for a big one, at least as far as classic consoles go. The Mega Drive/Genesis was a very successful machine globally, and that means its library ended up having a lot of interesting angles to it. As a result, I think people’s lists of favorite games on the console will vary wildly. I am here to share mine. Similar rules apply here as for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. No SEGA-CD or 32X; they’ll have their own time to shine. All regions are acceptable, but they have to be games that rel...| Post Game Content
Once again, I have to apologize if I’m skipping a platform you love. I did a Commodore 64 list because I owned one back in the day, but I don’t feel like I’ve experienced enough of computers like the Amiga, Spectrum, Apple II, PC-8801, Atari 8-Bit, and so on to make similar lists. Perhaps one day? For now, I’ll be trucking along with more familiar turf for me. Following the timeline along, the next console is NEC’s PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. This is going to be a fun one. As ever, I h...| Post Game Content
The 1980s saw a surge in post-apocalyptic action films, with movies like Mad Max and Escape from New York shaping a vision of dystopian futures dominated by wasteland survival, ruthless gangs, and …| Retro365
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For quite a few years hacking the Xbox 360 has involved opening up the console and modifying the motherboard with either glitch chips or, more recently, just a couple of wires that allow the modding software to exploit the processor and run our Homebrew code. These Reset Glitch Hacks are still the best way to mod your console but they suffer from two downsides.| Bytes N Bits
I perhaps don’t talk about it as much as I should, but the first thing I had in my home that was capable of playing video games was a Commodore 64 computer. We got one when the price had hit near rock-bottom, and while I really wanted an NES or even a Master System, I was appreciative for what I had. It’s with the C64 that I discovered my love of RPGs, and also learned the valuable lesson that the same game could be very different on different platforms. This list more than most will be e...| Post Game Content
Slackerz Inc. and Retro Arcade Remakes have launched Food Fight Frenzy, an official sequel to Atari's 1983 food throwing game.| Arcade Heroes
Okay, let me say this one up-front: I apologize to all the Colecovision fans out there, but I won’t be doing a list like this for that console. I just don’t have enough experience with it. The next list will be the Commodore 64. Anyway, the Intellivision. It’s a rather neat console, one that had a rollercoaster life. As a would-be rival to the Atari 2600, it brought the requisite sports and arcade ports to the fight. But it also tried to do a little more, incorporating ideas from more c...| Post Game Content
I know, I don’t really do news here all that much these days. Still, I like to mention these Arcade Archives sales just because they’re somewhat rare and easy to miss if you aren’t paying attention. For the last few years, Hamster has dedicated the month of May to Namco. That usually translates to some highly-requested releases and a sale on some games, and 2025 is following suit. Many of these have been on sale before, but it’s still worth having a look. As usual, you get 30% off the...| Post Game Content
I recently did a small write-up on Lost Patrol, a game I first encountered in the early ’90s at a friend’s house, as we didn’t have an Amiga at home. At the time, I was too young to grasp the game’s heavier themes, and it was only years later, revisiting it with adult eyes, that […]| Retro365
By the early 1980s, the Apple II had emerged as the centerpiece of the growing software boom. One of the new companies capitalizing on the momentum was Datamost, founded in 1981 by Dave Gordon foll…| Retro365
Okay, time to roll back to the start for these. I’m not going to do every system because I don’t feel strongly enough to even have a list of favorites for some of them. Despite the Atari 2600 being a couple of years before my time, I have had lots of experience with it over the years. I know my way around the library enough for today’s purposes, anyway. As usual, I’ll list my favorite games on the console along with a short bit of text. Those favorites might not be what I would consid...| Post Game Content
‘Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour”’ – Winston Churchill, 1940 In the summer of 1940, the world watched as the skies over Britain became the stage for […]| Retro365
By the late 80s, Spectrum Holobyte was in the midst of major changes. Originally founded in 1983, the company had established itself with high-end simulation and strategy games. In 1987, Spectrum Holobyte merged with another software house, Nexa Corporation, founded by Gilman Louie, a young entrepreneur with a strong interest in simulations and emerging computer […]| Retro365
Okay, let’s finish this particular console generation up before I move back to the earlier consoles. The Atari 7800 wasn’t much of a success anywhere. There are a lot of reasons for that, but this isn’t the place to litigate history. No, it’s the place where I rank my favorite (not necessarily the best) games on a console. I also write a very little bit about each game, but only a little bit. We’d be here all day otherwise. This console did present an interesting dilemma for me. It...| Post Game Content
I’m trying to pace myself properly with these lists. The bigger the library, the bigger the job of picking my favorites is. Which is to say, I’ll swing back around to Atari 2600 when I have a bigger chunk of time to do so. For now, let’s go with SEGA’s 8-bit console. The Master System had a truly bizarre life on a global scale. Depending on where you lived it was a virtual non-factor, the first big console success, or one of the most popular consoles of all-time. The library you were ...| Post Game Content
We all have our favorites on any platform, right? They may or may not be the best games, and some of them might be wrapped up in personal nostalgia, but that’s what makes it your own list. I’ve decided to do some articles with my favorite games on various platforms. I’m starting with the NES/Famicom because it was the easiest one to do off the top of my head. I’m not going to go into much detail on each game, so you’ll just have to take it for what it is. Remember, these are my favo...| Post Game Content
Dr. Dangerous - Scorpion Engine developed Commodore Amiga game by HooGames2017 gets a new WIP build!| www.indieretronews.com
Over the past few months, I have been going through my basement clearing out old boxes of things kept from my childhood home. I recently came across an envelope that just said "Nintendo" on it. Being an avid retro gamer, my curiosity got the best of me. When I opened the envelope, I found several ...| The Z-Issue
Learn what a GDEMU is and how to install one in your Sega Dreamcast. A helpful guide for owners with consoles that won't read game discs.| Humble Bazooka
I’ve been holding onto a Raspberry Pi mini computer for a few years and never really knew what to do| Game Dummy
