Retro Console News, Arcades, Classic Games And More
Loved the Nintendo 64, classic arcades, Amigas, ZX Spectrum or the classic games of eras past? Retro is the spot for all the news, features and videos you’ll love.
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Super Mario 64’s Glitchy Smoke Has Been Fixed After 24 Years
For all this time, over all these decades, we’ve all been playing Super Mario 64 with a visual glitch: the smoke that comes off Mario’s butt when you catch fire is broken.
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Super Mario Bros. 3’s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.
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What Were Your Favourite DOS Games?
I was streaming some Jackbox on the weekend for friends, and one of the people in the background made a quip about the old days of troubleshooting .ini files. It reminded me of the torture of dealing with DOS4GW errors, but naturally, you can’t think about DOS4GW without thinking of some absolute classics.
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Half-Life 2 Devs Thought About Fixing Bugs Speedrunners Use To See How They Would React
There is a large and active speedrunning community around Half-Life 2. Valve is aware of this, and during a recent IGN video explained that it thought about patching some of the popular bugs speedrunners use just to see if the runners would like having to find new ways to beat the game quickly.