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Have a Crashing Christmas with the new Crash cover tape
Remember when games mags used to give away cover tapes taped to their Christmas issue, and it felt like the big day had come early? Well, our pals at Fusion Retro Books’ ZX Spectrum mag Crash are giving you the chance to relive those exciting days of 8-bit Christmases past. The 2024 Crash Christmas tape…
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Two GBA F-Zero games zooming onto Switch
Here at Retro Faith, we firmly believe that the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription offers great value for money for retro gamers at just £34.99 per year for an individual membership, or £59.99 for a family membership for up to eight accounts. The service offers a massive collection of retro titles from past…
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October 2024 Evercade Game of the Month live
We’re big fans of Blaze Entertainment’s Evercade retro consoles here at Retro Faith, and we like to keep our system software up to date, so that we can enjoy the Game of the Month every month. A new Game of the Month is made available to Evercade VS and Evercade EXP (and soon Evercade Alpha)…
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First major Atari 50 DLC out now
The Wider World of Atari DLC is out now for Digital Eclipse’s acclaimed Atari 50 compilation. The DLC includes “new interviews, vintage ads, historical artifacts, and more, which have all been researched and presented with Digital Eclipse’s signature style. Highlights include unusual and underappreciated innovations and hidden gems from the late 1980s; a spotlight on…
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The Meating Switch review
We previously reported on the launch of The Meating, and now we’ve had the chance to have a proper butcher’s at the Switch version, so here’s our The Meating Switch review for you. As is so often the case with indie retro games today, production of The Meating was funded via a Kickstarter campaign, which…
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Mighty Street Fighter for Amstrad Dated
Although we aim to cover the widest possible range of retro gaming formats here at Retro Faith, the Amstrad CPC doesn’t tend to cross our radar very often. Though with Lord Sugar’s recent announcement of plans for an Amstrad Museum website (on which we previously reported), and this forthcoming brawler, it seems that exciting things…
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Street Fighter invading Fatal Fury City of the Wolves
As big fighting game fans here at Retro Faith, we were already looking forward to the return of the Fatal Fury series with the forthcoming Fatal Fury City of the Wolves, but the latest news on the game has us even more excited about it! SNK have released footage of Fatal Fury City of the…
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Shredder’s Revenge Gets Even Better!
We love our side-scrolling beat’ em ups here at Retro Faith, and at least one of us is more than a bit partial to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So it should go without saying that we’re fans of Shredder’s Revenge, Dotemu’s 2D beat ‘em that successfully captures the essence of Konami’s arcade classic, but…
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Bitmap Books to reprint Speccy book
No doubt buoyed by the interest surrounding Retro Games Ltd.’s recently revealed The Spectrum plug & play console, on which we previously reported, Bitmap Books have revealed that they are to reprint their lush Speccy tome, inclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium. The hardback book runs to 304 pages, and measures 170mm × 230mm. In…
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Mega Deals, Street Fightin’ Savings & more in the Capcom Steam Sale
This year’s Tokyo Games Show will run for two days, beginning this Thursday (26th September 2024). As much as we’d love to be there in person, the Retro Faith budget doesn’t quite stretch to international travel (yet). But speaking of stretching budgets, Capcom are running a Steam sale to tie into this year’s Tokyo Games…
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