Grid Frame Studio – Game Boy Review
I do enjoy getting emails out of the blue asking if I want to review products. You never quite know what you will receive. When I picked up this particular email, I must admit to having to look Grid Frame Studio up in a search engine to find out exactlyContinue Reading
Atari 2600 LEGO – is this the best thing I’ve ever seen?
As many of you who check out my YouTube channel or read these pages will already know, my kids and I are massive lego fans. And I also happen to be completely nuts about Atari. In particular the VCS*. So imagine my excitement (it was real my friends, very real)Continue Reading
The Commodore 64 is back! But not as you know it…
Commodore fans and lovers of retro computing in general, thanks to My Retro Computer, the brand could well be back – at least in name. Because in this particular Kickstarter, you are pledging for what is variations of a modern PC within a C64 style case plus the added kudosContinue Reading
Glory Hunters – Kickstarter for Game Boy
Mexican indie game developer César Arminio with his design studio 2think (creator of Pato Box) and software house Bitmap Soft are teaming up to bring you Glory Hunters, a new physical release for the Game Boy with their Kickstarter campaign. Glory Hunters is an all-new action-adventure RPG for the original GameContinue Reading
Upgrade your SEGA Dreamcast – quick, simple and cheap GDEMU and Dream PSU
The Dreamcast is an amazing console. Many would say ahead of it’s time. But being disk based, a cheap SD card solution has been a long time coming. That has all changed in recent years due to the cloning of the GDEMU card by Chinese manufacturers and a GDEMU cloneContinue Reading
SEGA Mania magazine – review
SEGA Mania is a relatively new (4 issues in at the time of writing), glossy, full colour magazine and is an unashamed homage to the likes of Mean Machines SEGA and SEGA Power. The men behind the magazine – Tim Hugall, Simon Pike and Sam Forrester – have produced whatContinue Reading
Final Vendetta, Brand-New Arcade Beat ’Em Up from Bitmap Bureau
Legendary developers behind Xeno Crisis and Battle Axe turn their hand to an iconic arcade genre. Final Vendetta, the latest game from Bitmap Bureau, is coming to PC and consoles in May 2022. Final Vendetta is a side-scrolling beat ‘em up, paying homage to the iconic arcade titles of theContinue Reading
Extra Life – Gaming Event in aid of Cancer Research
Words by Barry Morse of ‘The Retro Shed’ “Extra Life” we have all seen those words many times as gamers and got excited at the prospect of spending a few more minutes in the world of the game we spent our parents hard earned coins in. It’s only when we’veContinue Reading