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iiRCade News/Review: Once Upon a Time on Halloween
It's Halloween time and its only fitting to add another Halloween themed game to the iiRcade. This one is a perfect game to challenge and excite the iiRcade family. "Once Upon a Time on Halloween" is a "Cuphead" style gameplay with Halloween themed levels. The black...
Castle Climber – Another crazy climbing C64 game is here and this one is from Nello Galiano
Another retro gaming article to keep you company and yes there's certainly been a lot today already, is a brand new game for the C64 called 'Castle Climber'. This game developed by Nello Galiano for the Retro Programmers Inside competition, is a vertical scrolling...
This upcoming Pinball game for the TI-99/4A by Rasmus Moustgaard looks fab!
Either you're at home or out and about with a laptop, the best thing about Pinball is anyone can pick up and play. From the very young to grown Adults, Pinball has always been such a joy to play by so many people. It brings us back to the days of Pinball machines at...
Pinball Machine out of Legos
Each year at the Pinball Expo in Wheeling, IL, there is a unique item that draws attention from huge crowds. The Pinball Expo in 2019 had one of those attention grabbers. 16-year-old high school student Luke Horwath brought a full scaled pinball machine. Why is that...
EMBARGOED 🐶 A whole week of Grapple Dog announcements
BIG GRAPPLE DOG NEWS WEEK Pablo is back! Super Rare Originals and Medallion Games are super excited to announce Grapple Dog Week that'll be taking place 17-23rd October. To kick off a whole week of content around our favourite grapple-wielding pup, we have some major...
NES Top Loader – The last of the NES console.
It was on my birthday, October 18th, 1985 where console gaming changed forever. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) hit North America and the consoled world has never looked back. Millions of NES consoles were purchased, and ten of million number of NES carts...
iiRcade Game Review – Toki Proves It’s Ok to Monkey Around By: Brad Feingold
A lot of times when you go into an arcade, there would be a game or two that you put a quarter in a game, play it once and then realize you really aren't too crazy about it. This would have been one of those games if I didn't have a Nintendo Switch. Let me explain....
Retro Gaming at the Pinball Expo October 20-22
Pinball Expo is the brain child of Rob Berk who grew up playing pinball. His dream was to recognize his heroes – the pinball designers and artists that created the games he loved. With the help of Bill Kurtz and Mike Pacak, Pinball Expo became a reality taking place...
Cheesy Listening – Alcatraz, Rebels & Offence presents a brand new Commodore Amiga Music Disk!
Once again we are turning our attention away from games and towards our music lovers, as an incredible music collection has been released by Alcatraz, Rebels & Offence for the Commodore Amiga called ' Cheesy Listening '. A music disk which doesn't just contain...
Drag and Drop – A new Block Puzzle game released for the Amiga by Electric Black Sheep
I'm terrible at Puzzle games! Not only that, but trying to write an article regarding anything Puzzle related just isn't my strong point. Still if you like puzzle games and have an Amiga, you might like this latest news story, as Electric Black Sheep has recently...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jaden Berk
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jaden Berk, who is displayed on card number 1324, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Jaden has been around pinball in some sort of fashion his whole life. His father, Robert Berk, would create and start a pinball expo...
The CONK game engine – Another Amiga game engine appears but this one was never released!
We've featured many game engine updates throughout the years, from the C64 with SEUCK, to a constant array of updates for the Amiga with either Backbone, Redpill or our personal favorite from Earok called The Scorpion Engine. Well here we are with another game engine...
Space Panic – 1980’s Universal Entertainment game homage arrives on the Amstrad and it’s fun!
Way back in 1984 Alligata Software released 'Panic Planet'; a platformer with many similarities to load runner with your character digging holes and trapping enemies within. What sets this apart from Load Runner though is the fact that enemies can be pushed through so...
Antstream Arcade partners with Neo Legend for a new take on retro arcade gaming London: 11th October 2022 - Global cloud gaming leader Antstream Arcade has partnered with Neo Legend, the reference brand of arcade machines based in Paris to create a new generation of...
Snow Battle Princess Sayuki
We're stoked to announce a true concealed jewel in the precious stone department of video games. Together with our good friends at Mebius and original dev Starfish SD, we're pleased to let you know that Snow Battle Princess Sayuki will finally be available as physical...
THE ATARI : Still the Original
Buying Original Hardware While not the easiest way to play old Atari home console games, it is the most authentic. Atari game consoles are still available in retro game shops for reasonable prices and are not extremely difficult to find. In fact, online retro gaming...
Super Smash Bros/Super Mario Kart Tournaments
BHOP Esports Presents: Replay! Oct 20th — 23rd, 2022 1551 Thoreau Dr N, Schaumburg, IL 60173, USA Welcome to REPLAY, a Mario-themed tournament event happening at Pinball Expo 2022! Limited number of entrants! Sign up TODAY! Featured Games Super Smash Bros. Ultimate...
ANBERNIC Teases Their New RG505 Retro Handheld
So here we are again introducing another new Anbernic handheld console this year. This time the RG505. Just to catch you up: In 2022 alone, Anbernic has released the RG300X, RG552, RG503, RG353P, and their Portable Gaming PC the Win 600 (did we miss any?). While us at...
Fight or Fright Event is Back !
Shadow Royale returns this season. Take a trip in this terrifying twist of Trios, where any killed Legend respawns in SHADOW FORM. Shadows can run on walls, double jump, revive allies, and deliver extra melee damage. Other Shadows fall with one punch, and their living...
Cabal, Blood Bros., Heated Barrel, and Toki Coming Soon to iiRcade Game Store
iiRcade will soon add four arcade titles from TAD Corporation to Game Store iiRcade Inc., a premium home arcade console that allows gamers of all ages to play their favorite retro and modern games in a true arcade style, is pleased to announce that four classic arcade...
Will Shmups Ever Have Their Day In The Sun?
Video game genres were formed in the arcade. The experiences we continue to play today were invented for coin-op, and then brought home for us to enjoy on consoles. Pretty much every genre made the jump to consoles just fine, from fighting games to platformers to even...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Tuckey
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Tuckey who currently is displayed on card number 1712, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Todd is also on card # 4117. Todd is the owner of TNT Amusements, Inc. located in Southampton, PA. Todd started TNT in 1979,...
Metro Siege – The eagerly awaited Amiga brawler gets new footage from BitBeamCannon
What an incredible amount of Amiga news we've had this month, from the in-development game of Scramble, to the latest updates of the upcoming Robocop AGA. Well here we are with another Amiga news story, as we've just been told that Pixelglass and the team behind...
The MOST Controversial Game… EVER???
The Quest for Stale Gum Begins! In the '80s, the world was ruled by two things: the Nintendo Entertainment System and Garbage Pail Kids cards. These lovable, grossout monster children could be found in the lunchboxes of every latchkey kid, juvenile delinquent, rascal,...
