News

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

This week Nintendo is trying to use old games to entice us to buy their newest systems. We won’t be tempted because we’re following the twisted road of Tetris publishing rights. Sega has the answer for your power adapter needs, while the Atari name-owners continue their desperate grab for cash. We may be seeing the end of physical media for music, but we do have a new Sonic the Hedgehog boardgame in this episode of the Retro League.

Hugues Johnson got in touch with us to let us know about his Sega Genesis project Retail Clerk ’89. It is, or will eventually be, a small adventure game set in a 1989 shopping mall. It’s not nearly finished but is far enough to share progress. Be gentle and give feedback!

Dumblin Dungeon is a Gameboy multiplayer game, 2+ players. You control a Goblin that must activate buttons in a given order, and in a given timing. If you succeed, tell the next pattern to the next player, and give him the Gameboy. The first pattern is A B C D, walk on the pressure plate with your character to activate it.

Wire IT! is a PICO-8 game by koopaconan. Wire your office linking each terminal with the mainframes following the colors. Avoid getting stuck with your own cable while thinking why someone would have all these weird space configurations in their workplace.

Nuklear Klone is a PICO-8 game by by freds72. Suzie and Bob are trapped in a merciless world. Can you fight your way out?

Tube Runner is a PICO-8 game by minsoft. Fly through the tunnel as fast as possible avoiding the walls. The tunnel is divided in to Zones, with four Quadrants per zone. Each zone is progressively longer and more difficult than the previous, with sharper turns, more turns, and narrower sections.

microMarket by Zekka will teach you about the world of crypto currency trading.

Inhabit the persona of any of seven different moguls — six colorful animal mascots who just made their own ICO, and Zaurg, an everyman who just wants to strike it rich with his retirement fund. Choose one and receive constant informative commentary from the other six. Sometimes only the other five — Zaurg doesn’t comment much. Seethe as they jeer at you and relish their downfall.

This game has two end states. If you get one, why not try for the other one?

Journey to Oblivion is a space shooter game for Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis, currently in development by Mega Studios.

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

Mikael Tillander is working on a new Genesis game, which is actually not yet having a title. It’s a sci-fi action platform game and has a minor bizarre influence like a floating two headed horse enemy. Let’s see how surreal this game will get at the end. It’s looking promising for sure.

Could it be that rdein brings his Momodora trilogy to the Sega Genesis?

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.