Posts tagged retrogaming

Wii Warm Up: New release nostalgia

by JC Fletcher (Sep 1st 2007 10:30AM)

All this talk about Metroid Prime 3 made us want nothing more than to get reacquainted with the original NES Metroid. Nothing against Prime, of course-- it's awesome, and we look forward to getting to play it for real-- but this happens a lot. Hype for a new game always instills in us the desire ...

Quarter gobblers are broken on XBLA [update 2]

by Vladimir Cole (Dec 30th 2006 2:10PM)

Joystiq reader "epobirs" disagreed with our comment earlier today that Xbox Live Arcade title Gauntlet is broken. We'd like to dig into the issue a little more, because we feel that developers are missing a major opportunity to resurrect the true arcade experience. Games like Gauntlet were designed ...

Pack-Man: five joysticks as one

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Mar 24th 2006 12:55PM)

A modified version of Pac-Man that lets five people take control over the pill eating phasmophobic, Pack-Man is another example (for more: 1, 2) of a single-player game modded to let more than one person play. Using five custom-built joysticks, the creators used "MIDI cables to communicate with ...