Retro Gaming News
Retro Gaming Weekly News #0031
Welcome to this week’s retro gaming news roundup. The year is 1986, you are in Japan and this week a game is going to be released which will change gaming forever. You fire up the game, and one of the first things you read is “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.” What game is it?
News
Cocaine Bear is the big film release of 2023 and might of just missed the Oscar nominations for this year HOWEVER – the good folk have made an 8-bit game to celebrate the launch and you can play it for free. Link
The Named Cassette Museum in Tokyo is reuniting gamers with their original Famicom cassettes, and other old game cartridges, which had their names, addresses, and additional identifying information written on them [Yahoo]. Link
There is a new game to film release on the horizon! This time, Tetris [YouTube]. Link
Super Nintendo World in Hollywood is open! If you want to know more you can read this from SFGate. Link
Some boffins (I love that word) have created MarioGPT, which is a Mario Bros world generator using GPT-2 [TechXplore]. Link
Limited Run Games wanted to resurrect Cool Spot – Dr Pepper said “no” [Twitter]. Link
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of StarFox, one of the lead programmers has done a 40-minute play-through [YouTube]. Link
Features
In 1993, The Flash had his own video game on the Sega Master System that tried to replicate his speed in a precise puzzle game rather than emulating Sonic the Hedgehog, and although it received good reviews for its music and level design, it was overshadowed by the console’s lack of popularity in America and never re-released or ported to other consoles [CBR]. Link
Dualshockers have a feature on the life and death of “lives” in video games. Link
SlashGear takes a look at the most bizarre N64 accessories of all time. Link
Nintendo Life looks back at the Nintendo console with the best lineup of first-party games. Link
Lists / Rankings
Destructoid gives you their take on the top 15 games for the SNES. Link
Game news 24 takes a look at the 5 rarest games in the world. Link
Yahoo gets in on the ranking game and gives you their top 20 video game characters from the 90s. Link
And GameRant, who are much more accustomed to giving their rankings – gives you the 10 best Retro Games from the ’90s. Link
In the niche list of the week, The Gamer take a look at the 10 best WarioWare references to other games. Link
Dualshockers gives you their take on the 10 best Sega Franchises. Link
That’s all folks. This week’s game was The Legend of Zelda for the NES, released 37 years ago this week in Japan. Check out our TikTok channel where we are creating our very own list of the top 20 SNES games ever!