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Sep
15

Moto Racer-Nice wheelie!

It was the time when graphics accelerator cards began invading homes without much subtlety. The infamous 3DFx Voodoo boards plugged into PCs like a berserker’s armor, boosting graphics power beyond imagination. Back then, a regular Pentium 120 MHz couldn’t deliver […]

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Sep
13

Fighting Force Windows

Playing Double Dragon or the legendary Final Fight in the ’80s—and then moving on to Streets of Rage—was pure joy. These were classic side-scrolling beat ’em ups with quick, straightforward plots (back then, almost every game had a simple story) […]

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Sep
09

Day of Tentacle Portable Toilet :)

The graphic adventures of the ’80s and ’90s filled our days with joy. Today I want to talk about a game that was as kind-hearted as it was entertaining—an adventure that unquestionably ranks among the greatest of all time. And, […]

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Sep
08

Lost in the Data Abyss, Searching for the Light

Dear all, Yesterday, we received a missive that gave us, let’s say, a bit of food for thought. The topic: the compliance of the data on our site and the numerous errors lurking in every corner of it. Errors that, […]

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Sep
02

Elite: Beyond Imagination

In 1985, a game was released on the Commodore 64 that broke all the established rules. With limited and far-from-advanced tools, its developers managed to create something infinitely vast. Imagination overcame every constraint of reality, programming an astronaut who could […]

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Sep
01

September Has Returned. And So Have We.

September is back.You can feel it in the light that fades too soon, in the afternoons that smell like overheated plastic and binary nostalgia.Maybe it’s because both my birthday and MaybeGrifis’s fall in this cursed month — but I like […]

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Aug
27

Shinobi

It was just like being a kid again, watching those old Ninja movies—dreaming of becoming a martial arts master who could wield swords, kusarigama, and of course throw the legendary Ninja Stars! Its adaptation into the world of video games […]

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Aug
25

Young Pilot of 2654

Good morning, warriors of Retrogaming! Browsing the Retrogek website feels like flipping through an ancient encyclopedia that grows richer every day with the history of video games. While exploring this “collection of knowledge,” I stumbled upon a masterpiece from 1990 […]

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Aug
23

Windjammers

Who remembers this great classic? Dark and I used to play it in the arcade back in 1995 (I think). We were amazed by the idea of throwing frisbees at crazy speed and power, trying to score as many points […]

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Aug
20

Still on Track, Folks

We’re still on track, folks. While MaybeGrifis keeps having fun making videos on social media, I’m over here continuing the mess of organizing DOS games. The games page has been updated, and now we also have downloadable files… but don’t […]

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Aug
19

What is an iconic moment?

It’s a symbol, an image, a character that represents an event, a period, or a genre. For me, one of the most iconic moments is captured in this image, where Guybrush Threepwood suddenly finds himself transported back to the setting […]

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Aug
17

COMIX ZONE

Back in the 90s, my trusty 486 DX4 running at 100 MHz was already starting to feel outdated as the Pentiums took over. Around that time, SEGA joined forces with Microsoft to bring some of its titles to the PC. […]

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Aug
15

Happy Ferragosto

When Dark and I were kids, on this sweltering holiday we would dream of autumn’s arrival and the flood of new titles that consoles and DOS unleashed without mercy.Today, those very titles live on at retrogek.com, and we promise a […]

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Aug
15

A-Team

In the 1980s, TV shows reigned supreme on cold winter afternoons, and the most famous ones often made their way onto PCs or consoles. Who remembers the DOS video game The A-Team? The idea of helping “the Country” when no […]

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Aug
13

Climbing the Dos Mountain

Finally, after years of shameful absence… they have arrived.The legendary DOS games, the pixelated dinosaurs that defined an era and stole countless nights of sleep, are finally on the site. Monkey Island 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Day of the […]

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Aug
12

Berzerk’s Last-Minute Facelift

Summer, 1980.Arcades pulsed with neon and sweat while Bernie “Elmer” McNeil was deep in the final stages of developing Berzerk, the upcoming shooter for the Atari 2600 and arcade cabinets. The game was born to be simple—almost barebones: black, white… […]

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Aug
06

The Dark Empire of DOS Is Back

Summer’s moving along, and while everyone’s out there soaking up the sun (or desperately searching for a patch of shade), we’re still here, digging through the past to bring you 3000 freshly imported coin-up games. Because, let’s be honest, who […]

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Jul
31

Spinal Breakers (1990): When Arcades Didn’t Let You Breathe

I was browsing the site looking for examples to inspire my next update when I stumbled upon this game by chance. I had never heard of it. The first images showed dinosaurs, Arabian djinn on flying carpets, Nazi zombies, and […]

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Jul
23

Ozzy’s Final Logout

The new version of the app is out.Yes, right now.In this retrofuturistic hellscape where even Ozzy Osbourne has left us, and rock is now just a silent notification in a world that keeps scrolling.We honor him the only way we […]

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Jul
13

We Love World of Warcraft

Summer nostalgia hits hard while I’m coding like I’m actually making money off this. I remember the first time I met MaybeGrifis inside World of Warcraft.I’d already been playing for a while, and I was trying to convince him to […]