Germany's largest game archive closes, leaving 60,000 game files unaccounted for www.notebookcheck.net/Germany-s-la...

Et les émissions rétro de la semaine, à commencer par un épisode de Mémoire Vive consacré au mythique éditeur Psygnosis mag.mo5.com/285589/psygn...

When the Super Nintendo reached UK shores in 1992 it (inadvertently) changed the magazine publishing business. I spoke to world renowned composer Daniel Pemberton about his time at Game Zone magazine in the early 90s… 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net/gamezone-mag... #VideoGames #RetroGaming #Nintendo☀️🌴

Et paf nouvelle vidéo où je reviens sur le premier volet de la saga Tex Murphy ! Le partage est chou youtu.be/zDLun7uyATQ

For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC. A lot of Canadians grew up playing Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools. cdrom.ca/games/cancon...

'SIMILAR TO NINTENDO'

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Source code has been recovered for Imagitec's unreleased Raiden (Amiga/Atari Falcon), suggesting 8 Amiga levels plus extra Falcon content beyond the known 3-level build. We've also added early Space Junk sources! Huge thanks to tomseddon and dlfrsilver! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/raid...

In 1992, German PC distributor VOBIS hired designer Luigi Colani to design a more rounded and unique looking laptop, the Blue Note. Released in 1993, it was one of the more unique looking PCs of the time (in Europe at least) awarded high ratings in reviews.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Petite mise à jour d'un article sur Microsoft publié en février 2019, où après avoir fait l'historique de la tendance de l'entreprise à très mal gérer ses studios, j'essayais d'être optimiste dans la conclusion. ludostrie.com/microsoft/

To celebrate the Netherlands' crushing defeat in the world cup, why not take a look at my video about a legendary Dutch first person shooter, and the story of the massively influential company that made it? youtu.be/3bO71CMYAPk

Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Emmy II (MSX2, ©ASCII 1986) — a girl, named after "emulation," who learns the words you type, forgets old ones, and saves it all to disk, so next time you switch on, she remembers where you left off.

Have you played Command Performance? A late 80s mystical RPG in the land of Xa- ok, it's a DOS system manager. Slay that AUTOEXEC devil. No reason for that cover art to go so hard, but no one tell them otherwise.

Raiden was one of the biggest arcade shooters of the 1990s. But did you know planned Amiga and Atari Falcon conversions never made it to release? Today we take a look at both surviving versions and what happened to them.

With search becoming less useful for finding independent video game websites, it's great to see initiatives like Warp Point helping people discover them again. Games That Weren't is now part of the Warp Point directory: readonlymemo.com/warp-point-a...

"Pineapple" Store – Specialists in Foreign Software such as Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, and Mac – in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. 1986

26 ans déjà ? C'est le sujet de la dernière news du samedi avant la session estivale : 🌏Universe at War : Earth Assault (2008) 🏰Toboclic 021 - Le Château des Chocottes (2002) ⁉️Qui est-ce ? (1999) 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Les Grons (1998) 👔Tom Clancy's ruthless.com (1998) www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/...

In a very Indy-like move, we've unearthed a never-before-seen Lucasfilm Games Indiana Jones adventure! Note that we said "adventure," not "game." For possibly the first time ever, here's Indiana Jones and the Quest for Paradise VGA, the best ten-minute commercial you'll see this week.

New article is live! The history of Australian computer and video game magazines. From Megazone and Hyper to Atomic and APC. As told by the people who were there 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net/australian-v... #SonicTheHedgehog #Australia #VideoGameMagazines #RetroGaming #RetroComputers ☀️🌴

The Acrobat was an ambitious comic book-style adventure by Simon Price and Mike Lewis, planned for PC, Atari ST and Amiga before MicroProse cancelled the project. Released today on Games That Weren't, including the surviving source code. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/06/the-...

CE SOIR ! LA NUIT PLAYSTATION ! On va jouer à des jeux PS1 tirés aléatoirement, et c'est VOUS dans le tchat qui déciderez de quand passer au jeu suivant ! J'espère qu'on va enfin jouer à Adibou et l'Ombre Verte RDV à 20h ! twitch.tv/conan3d_ (les partages sont très appréciés 💜)

Cinq jeux, cinq pays dans cette news du samedi : 🌴OutRun 2006 : Coast 2 Coast (2006) 🇵🇹Portugal 1111 : A Conquista de Soure (2004) 🐯Don Cato Die Rückkehr des Luchses (2001) 🔖Le Jeu du Bescherelle (2000) 🏎️Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship (1998) www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/...

Interview of Bobby Prince in Computer Gaming World 125 (12/1994) about the sound effects in Doom II. archive.org/details/Comp...

NEW VIDEO! We're looking at the Amstrad GX4000. This console may have failed commercially, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a fine 8-bit machine with a lot of potential, and some good games too - it absolutely deserves a proper look. Enjoy and please share :) youtu.be/WH1f1EcjnkU

🎮 Jean Richen, 14 ans au cœur d'Atari France. De la Warner au Jaguar, en passant par le « One ! » de Tramiel et le concert de JMJ à La Défense — un témoignage exclusif. 👉 www.atarinside.com/blog/index.p... #Atari #AtariST #Jaguar

La Ville Idéale is a 1986 city management/edutainment Thomson title, where the goal is to "build a city where the evils that generally accompany the anarchic development of large cities are absent". Between a god and a mayor, you have plenty of choices, like even defunding the police.

1er événement VGM demain à la Philharmonie de Paris : une journée de conférence gratuite. Avec du beau monde du milieu de la composition, de la recherche et des institutions ! J'inaugurerai avec Jean Zeid en parlant des coulisses de l'exposition VG&M. :) philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/...

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

Je ne suis pas sûr que j'avais bien réalisé, avant de réviser mon Bobby Prince pour écrire ce petit papier, qu'il avait signé la moitié de la BO de Duke Nukem 3D

Preservation work in collaboration with Richard Hewison as part of the launch of Richard's new Memories of Rainbird and Beyond Software book Kickstarter, following on from his superb Firebird book. Please take a look and consider supporting if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/zza...

Salut Internet ! Pour #LaSemaineRetro, il me fallait un jeu qui commence par "P". Et parmi les choix possibles, j'ai vu une évidence : PYST, parodie friquée de MYST (un jeu que je n'aime "pas plus que ça") où on trouve un John Goodman torse nu & couronné... 👇 À tout de suite 👇 💩 twitch.tv/pixx3ll 💩

La news du samedi est centrée sur les bons vieux jeux de société et d'arcade : 🧊Rubik's Games (1999) 🌑Scorched Planet (1996) 🎖️Stratego (1990) 🚀Defender (1983) 🪨Astro-Dodge (1982) www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/...

The Adventures of Willy-Beamish mini-documentary has dropped, just in time to remind me how much I love this game. Watch it here ⤵️ youtu.be/sam8kYTzwJc?...

OK, retrogaming is great, but has anyone got some nostalgia for cultural CD-ROMs? Hundreds of these CD-ROMs were developed and/or published in France between 1994 and 2002.

Pour parler de jaquettes, dans le dernier Super Vieux Jeux, on est chacun secrètement venu avec 10 jeux et on les a fait découvrir aux autres en pleine émission. C'est pas un top vu qu'on ne classe rien. Donc la minia est mensongère c'est vrai, mais vous savez nous, ici, on fait tout pour le clic.

La pub d'époque de l'avant-gardiste Extase (+ quelques fun facts divers si vous déroulez 🧵) bsky.app/profile/shar...

Bad Max was a unique 3D graphic adventure released by Transoft for Amstrad CPC in 1985, complete with 3D glasses. Magazine coverage also advertised Commodore 64 and Thomson MO5/TO7 versions, but no trace of them has surfaced so far. Can they be saved? www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/06/bad-...

The third episode of The Dynamix Adventures documentary is out, and it focuses on Dynamix’s follow-up to Rise of the Dragon: Heart of China. 📽️ Here's the link: retro365.blog/2026/06/07/m...

Extase, Cryo Interactive, Commodore Amiga (1990) A French concept album video game from developers already well known for them. Compete with a rival player to send electrical impulses to the mind of an android going through a cycle of awakening, all while shaping the soundtrack playing.

One day someone rang the doorbell of small Milanese studio Milestone with a CD. On it, there was a simple 3D car demo and someone had an idea. The release of the smash hit 1995 classic Screamer and how the game came from the humble origins of IDEA Software.

In case you want to read something on erotic games, I published an ongoing research on stripping games and their evolution through time. Any support VERY appreciated since, again, there's really not many platforms for this kind of research.

Aujourd'hui, je vous parle d'UMEZMA, un CD-ROM interactif de 1996 qui adapte la première partie du manga La main gauche de Dieu, la main droite du diable (Kami no Hidarite, Akuma no Migite) de Kazuo Umezz ✂️🧵

Voici la news du samedi, avec des FPS et un jeu d'actualité sportive : 😱Clive Barker's Jericho (2007) 🚫Blacksite (2007) 👽Area-51 (2005) ⚔️Alexandre (2004) 🎾Roland Garros 2000 (2000) www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/...

Philippe Vachey has restored and published the original soundtrack for 'Alone in the Dark', the French survival horror game that inspired an entire genre back in 1992. nowplaying.cool/after-34-yea...

Trying to get around copy protection in the 80s and 90s used to involve a lot of careful notetaking for sure.

Alchemist is Weirdcraft 2. A 1997 Win95 / DOS Warcraft II clone from China with Dracula, zombies, mad scientists, Halloween factions and all kinds of weird stories and narrative. Gameplay is what you expect, but those 1 out of 10 ratings I see? Completely unjustified. This is 100% great.

Forteresse is a 1987 Amstrad CPC / DOS adventure game by Loriciels, where your task is to... undress a princess. Find the locks to free her from her armor and she'll "thank you" personally. Never saw a "strip adventure game" before, but leave it to the French to always add nudity somewhere.

CUC International kept just beating estimates until Henry Silverman saw the books and uncovered fraud built on phantom subscriptions and merger money games. That scandal helped push its software division into Vivendi's orbit. TCW259: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1k5... #AccountingFraud #Vivendi

Following the open source re-release of Moon Child and Hoi, we're now happy to announce the open source re-release of our 1994 puzzle game Clockwiser. We hope you will enjoy it again! Be sure to check the Demo mode for gameplay instructions… bitbucket.org/rhinoid/cloc...