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Crime City breaks out of the Arcade Archives
Last week’s Arcade Archives release took us on a visit to Battle City, as we previously reported. And this week we’re being taken to the no less violent-sounding Crime City! Crime City is a Taito side-scrolling shoot ‘em up originally released back in 1989. Crime City is a spin-off from Taito’s considerably better-known1988 coin-op Chase…
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Alan Sugar planning ‘Amstrad Museum’ website
These days, Alan Sugar is probably best known for barking “yer fired!” at contestants on his BBC reality gameshow, but to us retro gamers he’ll always be the bloke who owned Amstrad. The Amstrad CPC is perhaps justifiably seen as coming third in the 8-bit home computer race, behind the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64,…
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Sony reveal PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection
3rd December this year will mark 30 years since Sony launched the PlayStation, a console that changed gaming forever, despite famously being developed from an aborted SNES CD-ROM add-on. As part of their celebrations of PlayStation’s 30th anniversary, on the PlayStation blog Sony have announced a range of products employing the design and colours of…
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Cash Cow DX Switch review
As we previously reported, Cash Cow DX is the latest neo-retro Switch title from the developers and publishers of the magnificent Donut Dodo (which we reviewed previously), namely Pixel games SARL-S and Flynn’s Arcade respectively. The game will be released at the budget price of £5.99 on Switch via the Nintendo eshop next Thursday (26th…
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4 more SNES games added to Switch Online
When Nintendo first announced that SNES games were coming to Nintendo Switch Online, we were understandably excited, and since then, the Switch Online catalogue of SNES titles just keeps expanding, with more and more obscure titles joining the classics you’d expect to see on there. This week’s additions to the Switch Online SNES catalogue are…
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Toaplan X Psikyo classic shmup collection blasts onto Steam
City Connection and Bitwave have teamed up to bundle together a collection of classic shmups, including 16 games from Toaplan and 9 games from Psikyo. The games in question are: Toaplan games BatsugunTruxtonTruxton IIZero WingOut ZoneFixEightDogyuunGrind StormerVimanaSlap FightTiger HeliTwin CobraFlying SharkFire SharkHellfireTwin Hawk Psikyo games Strikers 1945Strikers 1945 IIStrikers 1945 IIIGunbirdGunbird 2GunbarichSamurai AcesTengaiSamurai Aces III:…
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Battle City fights its way out of the Arcade Archives
Here at Retro Faith, we’re big fans of Hamster Corp’s Arcade Archives series, which not only makes retro arcade titles easy to play on modern formats, but it also serves the function of preserving arcade titles of yesteryear, which may otherwise be forgotten. The latest release in the series is the game Battle City, which…
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Games mag annuals seek crowdfunding
As you may well be aware, Fusion Retro Books are the publishers of some of the greatest games magazines and books, and every year they give us some real treats to look forward to in the form of traditional hardback annuals for some of their marvelous magazines. And this year is no different. For 2025…
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New indie bullet hell shmup Angel at Dusk blasting onto Switch later this year
Angel at Dusk is a Japanese vertically scrolling shmup with a body horror theme that has been described as a “skeletal” shmup, as it effectively aims to reduce the genre to its bare bones. Angel at Dusk was originally developed for release on Steam by developers Akiragoya. The Steam version of the game was released…
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New Evercade functionality now live
Yesterday, we reported that Soko Banana, the Evercade Game of the Month for September, is now available to Evercade EXP and Evercade VS users who update to the latest system software. However, Soko Banana isn’t the only treat awaiting in the new Evercade system software. Three notable new features have also been added to the…
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