09:49 <Sprite> Time Extension | "I Know That Was a Half-Baked Take" - Street Fighter II Artist Is Still Annoyed He Didn't Do the Cover Art for the West 1h ago · 1 min read "In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won't be accepted". Given the insane global popularity of Japanese animation and pop culture today, it's hard to believe that, once upon a time, Western marketers did everything they could to hide the fact that something came from The Land of the Rising Sun. There's no better example of this than video... Read full story

09:49 <Sprite> Time Extension | DOOM On Vectrex Brings An Eerie Vector Beauty To The Legendary DOS Shooter 49m ago · 1 min read Grab your plastic overlays. Milton Bradley's tabletop all-in-one console, Vectrex, can now be inked in as another platform that can "run" seminal 1993 release DOOM. New footage surfaced yesterday that showed the granddaddy of the shooter genre "running" on the long-obsolete vector-based system. Even given the Vectrex display's rudimentary visuals, id Soft... Read full story

11:20 <Sprite> RetroRGB - | SonicVision Pro Featuring 4 in 1 Capability ISA CARD - RetroRGB Vanessa (Vanessaira) · 12m ago · 2 min read The Team at PC MIDI.eu are at it again with a new multipurpose ISA add-on expansion card, which is intended for use in 386 and 486 based DOS/Windows 3.1 computers. Named the SonicVision Pro, this new ISA card combines the functionality of 4 different ISA add-on cards into one. Thus helping retro computing enthusiast who Read full story

11:20 <Sprite> Time Extension | SuperStation One's $20 Memory Card Goes on Sale Today, and Yes, It Plays DOOM 1h ago · 1 min read Runs on PS1 and PS2, as well. Taki Udon has released a memory card to complement his SuperStation One MiSTer FPGA system – and it also works on original PS1 and PS2 consoles. The SuperStation Memory Card (or SSMC to its friends) has a built-in display for Game ID support and works with FreePSXBoot, FCMB, OPL MMCE and more. You can also use it to load ISOs... Read full story

11:20 <Sprite> Time Extension | The Blue Bomber Blasts Onto PICO-8 With New Mega Man Fan Game Kiloman 20m ago · 1 min read Super Fighting Robot tribute title now live. Capcom's veteran superstar/superguy Mega Man is back (in a fashion), courtesy of a brand-new unofficial fan game now available on the PICO-8 platform. Kiloman, developed by homebrewer Trianull, sees The Blue Bomber return for a mini adventure on the byte-sized game creation platform. Four challenging stages awa... Read full story

12:49 <Sprite> Time Extension | Thalamus Reveals Cave Dave Physical Edition Artwork, Drawn By Veteran Rare Artist Wil Overton 49m ago · 1 min read Going Deeper Underground. Thalamus Digital has revealed the artwork for the upcoming physical release of its 2025 old-school platformer, Cave Dave. The colourful image was painted by Wil Overton, the veteran artist known for their work with developer Rare as well as their legendary, anime-infused covers for '90s magazine Super Play. Released digitally for... Read full story

14:19 <Sprite> Time Extension | PS1 Obscurity Spectral Tower, Perhaps The Longest "Kusoge" Ever Made, Is Now Playable In English 1h ago · 1 min read Got 5,000 hours to spare? The rare and rubbish PS1 RPG Spectral Tower has been translated into English, and is now ready and raring to go for all players looking to have a tedious, endless adventure. The patch, crafted by a team of homebrewers, arrives just in time for the dubious title's 30th anniversary. Released in 1996, Spectral Tower is an RPG with r... Read full story

14:19 <Sprite> Time Extension | 1992's Ultra Gory PC-98 Horror Title Dead Of The Brain Is (Be)Heading To Steam 19m ago · 1 min read Rave from the Grave. The '90s horror output of controversial Japanese developer FairyTale is headed to PC, translated into English (officially) for the very first time. Published by FAKKU, the first release in FairyTale's "Nightmare Collection" will be the PC-98 title Dead Of The Brain, which gooed up the Japanese market back in 1992. Dead of the Brain: D... Read full story

16:33 <Sprite> Time Extension | Interview: "In Ten Years' Time, Half the People in the Book May No Longer Be Alive" - Paul Drury on Why 'The Arcade 1971-1999' Is So Important 1h ago · 1 min read "I’m proud that we have got some of their tales down in print for posterity". The Arcade 1971–1999: The Stories Behind Classic Coin-Ops, Told by Their Creators is the latest coffee-table tome from Bitmap Books and is penned by veteran video game journalist Paul Drury. Boasting a foreword by Atari founder and industry legend Nolan Bushnell and featuring se... Read full story

16:33 <Sprite> Time Extension | Kumagumi Is Releasing Halloween-Themed Metal Slug T-Shirts 33m ago "The fright is now". Clothing firm Kumagumi has announced that it is releasing two new Metal Slug shirts in time for Halloween. Both are inspired by Metal Slug 3 's second stage, which is packed with zombies that, if they come into contact with the player character, turn them into a zombie, too. Read the full article on timeextension.com Read full story

16:34 <Sprite> RetroRGB - | RetroTINK 6x/4K Firmware v1.94.0 - RetroRGB Bob · 1h ago · 8 min read Over the past month, Mike Chi has been releasing some massive firmware updates for the RetroTINK 6x and both 4K’s. Also, Wobbling Pixels’ released another profile pack that takes full advantage of some of the changes; Installation instructions are in the links, but it's as easy as deleting the old ones and copying the new Read full story

16:34 <Sprite> RetroRGB - | Unico Traveller ULW10 Kickstarter Updates - RetroRGB Bob · 47m ago · 2 min read It looks like the Kickstarter campaign for Unico's LCD-based, "PVM-style" monitor is funded and the project is moving ahead. They've also posted updates showing a completely redesigned driver board, that's aiming to match what their campaign claimed it could do. There's still barely any details on it and the Kickstarter page sill shows an expected Read full story

23:12 <Sprite> OSnews | KDE developer takes a look at COSMIC Thom Holwerda · 23h ago · 5 min read KDE contributor and developer Niccolò Venerandi has published an article about COSMIC, System76’s brand new desktop environment. It’s been almost a year since I’ve last tried COSMIC; though development since then has mostly been centered around stability (going from late alpha to stable releases now!) there have been a fair bit of user-facing changes too ... Read full story

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