You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

Platforms Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt Handheld Gaming PCs ...

After over a year of on-and-off tinkering, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is fully operational. The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the ...

A new retro games console has been launched on Indiegogo which provides the opportunity to enjoy those old games from CDs which are no longer easy to play on the current range of available gaming ...

Analogue’s consoles use a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip, which can, in simple terms, simulate the original hardware accurately and without software-based emulation. The Analogue Duo, the ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

In the nearly 18 months since a CD-ROM-based “Nintendo PlayStation” prototype was first found in an estate sale, emulator makers and homebrew programmers have created a facsimile of what CD-based ...

I’m just old enough to remember interactive CD-ROMs from the early days of the internet. Back in the ’90s, countless brands and publications offered CDs you’d put in your computer and they’d have ...

We're rerunning Richard Cobbett's classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...