The PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 / Core Grafx Mini is having its world wide launch delayed. Konami released an updated statement on their product website and via twitter. Where they mention that the company have delayed shipment and launch of the console as current production have been halted, regretfully due to the Covid 19 epidemic. […]
While wandering the aisles at PAX East, I stumbled across the Boston Video Games booth – A team dedicated to promoting developers local to the Boston area. They were featuring a number of different games that are available on Steam, but being sold at the show in creative ways. Some games were sold as non-functioning […]
Mike aka RGB, developer of the high-end Home Arcade System (HAS) supergun, is now accepting orders for the much anticipated and requested JAMMA extension harness. Similar to Benime’s extension cables that I acquired and briefly reviewed last year, RGB‘s dual-PCB harness will significantly alleviate the wear and tear effect on the supergun’s edge connector, that […]
Wrestling With Gaming just released a documentary about the early 90’s Nickelodeon children’s game show Nick Arcade. One of the most memorable things about the show was that kids were “put inside a video game” for the final round – An extremely impressive accomplishment for the technology of the time. The documentary goes into detail […]
Mike Chi, creator of the RetroTINK line of products just announced the release of the first official firmware update for his latest Composite-S-Video-Component video line-doubler, the RetroTINK-2X Pro. Purchase all RetroTINK Products via multiple vendors worldwide here: https://www.retrorgb.com/retrotink.html A whole slew of preset functionalities have been tweaked around/improved with the new update such as filters […]
While walking through the aisles at PAX East, I stumbled upon a booth showcasing a brand new NES game called Trophy: An action platformer that seemed Mega Man-inspired and would be available on real NES carts. After playing the game for a bit, it was obvious the game was no Mega Man romhack, as the […]
We’re proud to announce that Bob and Ray Commend will be doing a panel at this year’s Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, titled “Retro Gaming Hardware in 2020“: A panel reflecting on the current state of hardware in the retro gaming scene. This will be Team RetroRGB’s second year presenting at LIRGE and forth year […]
Artemio recently posted a detailed writeup on the 240p Test Suite’s Patreon page that details why the audio analysis from “modern retro” consoles might show significantly different readings than an original console: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nt-mini-and-when-34461897 I strongly recommend anyone interested read the post and hopefully sign up for the Patreon, but here’s a basic description of what’s […]
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The Sega Nomad is a portable Sega Genesis that original came with a Game-Gear-like LCD screen. I wanted to test how the lag on both the original screen and two upgrades compare to a CRT. The general consensus has been that the Nomad has “about a frame of lag”, but I wanted to test for […]
