Wonder Boy Gets New Amiga and Mega Drive Ports
ShinobiZ has rebuilt the 1986 arcade classic in 68000 assembly for Amiga and Sega Mega Drive, with arcade-speed play, hardware-specific audio and several modern conveniences.
Search Archive — Checkpoint Retro
Discover deep dives, news, and history across vintage video games. Full-text search through Checkpoint Retro archive.
Retro Handheld Guide Explains Shaders, Overlays and Scaling
A Retro Game Corps guide explores how scaling, color options, filters, shaders and overlays can improve retro games on handheld screens. It focuses on common 640×480 displays while also covering other resolutions and operating systems.
The Era of Bootleg Cartridges: How Steepler, Dendy, and Gray Imports Brought Us Video Games
Discover how Steepler, Dendy, bootleg cartridges, and ’90s television brought video games to a generation across the post-Soviet world.
Resident Evil (1996) Development History: The Engineering Triumph of Shinji Mikami
How strict hardware limitations of the Sony PlayStation, a classic Famicom legacy, and B-movie inspiration helped Capcom change gaming history.
The Dual-Processor Labyrinth: How Sega Saturn's Complex Architecture Doomed the Console
Eight specialized processors, square polygons instead of triangles, and a 90s programmer's nightmare. Why Sega's engineering masterpiece proved insurmountable.
Why Dreamcast was ahead of its time
Bold ideas, built-in modem, VMU interactive memory cards, and timeless classics. Why Sega's swan song was a vision of future gaming.
