February 6, 2008 at 2:28 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by tubaros |
Welcome to Retro 101.
Retro gaming is facing a resurgence in popularity with all the major consoles having their own way of supplying that nostalgic buzz. Here at Retro 101 we thought it would be good to have a place to find out whether these games are worth your money.
We aim to cover everything from Amstrad to Vectrex, Virtual console to Xbox Live Arcade, as well as new takes on old franchises.
Let us take you back to a time when games were still fun and not like a second job.
Thank you.
The Retro 101 Team
August 27, 2008 at 10:42 am | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by tubaros |
Retro 101 is now availble through IPhone - just browse to the site and it will correctly format it to a IPhone skin, which was made possible by the “WPtouch iPhone Theme”.
Retro101 will also correctly recognise and format for PSP, Wii, and Nintendo DS browsers 
August 22, 2008 at 2:11 am | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
Big news today as more imports come to the EU. Super Mario RPG, yes you did read that right, will set you back 900 points and Mario: The Lost Levels is available again for 600 points.
August 12, 2008 at 5:53 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
It has been confirmed that the original NES version of Bionic Commando will not be coming to the VC. It seems likely the Nazi imagery it contains is the main reason for it not being released.
August 12, 2008 at 5:47 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
The Fable Pub games join Bionic Commando this week. Both will cost 800 points, though the pub games are free for anyone with a pre-order for Fable 2.
August 8, 2008 at 1:15 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
Four games this week. Splatter House and Ecco Jr (800 points) on the Megadrive, Pitstop 2 (500) on the C64 and Samurai Showdown 2 (900) for the Neo Geo. A mixed bag of quality if ever there was one.
One thing that is worth pointing out for all you Samurai Showdown fans. It may be worth holding off from buying this for a while. The Japanese Samurai Showdown compilation for Wii and PS2 has just been given the green light for release in the US. It is expected to get a Uk releases in the last quater of the year.
July 28, 2008 at 11:40 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
Instead of making us guess at what’s coming each week a release list has surfaced. The best thing is all of them look promising. We hope this is the start of a Live revival after weeks of rubbish.
July 30th - Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
August 6th - Braid
August 13th - Bionic Commando: Rearmed
August 20th - Galaga Legions
August 27th - Castle Crashers
July 25, 2008 at 12:17 am | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
A mix of quality this week. Neo Turf Masters (900 points), IK+ (500) and City Connection (500) are the games. It would be nice to get some more SNES games up. Come on Nintendo you can do better than this.
July 22, 2008 at 4:52 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
Bad news for anyone expecting Live co-op in the new Geometery Wars. It has been confirmed that due to there being so much going on it was just too big an ask. It will remain in Local Co-op though.
July 22, 2008 at 4:47 pm | Retro 101 Team
- Posted by retroghost |
1942: Dual Strike and Go! Go! Break Steady are this weeks offering. Both will set you back 800 points. Neither look that good unfortunately. These aren’t the only things making their way to live though.
N+ and Puzzle Quest are also getting fairly large chunkcs of downloadable content. Ninja fans will have 150 new single players levels and 50 co-op levels available for the very reasonably sum of 200 points. Puzzle Quest is getting new spells, monsters, items, classes, achievements, Quests and much more for 700 points.
This comes after Puzzle Quest was recently reduced to 800 points. It is nice to see developers keeping their games alive. We say long may it continue.
