Retro News Round-Up – June 2014

Welcome to the first episode of the Retro News Round-Up on 1 More Castle, which takes a quickfire look at all of the May’s retro gaming going ons – including the latest ports and remakes, hardware and accessories, homebrew, fan translations, and a bit more besides.

This month installment includes a live action adaptation of much loved 1992 platformer Another World, a trio of NES fan translations, and a release date being set for the RetroN 5 at last (well, for the US at least).

The relevant links for this month’s episode can be found below:

See the full short live action film out of popular platformer Another World:

http://www.anotherworld-themovie.com/

Preorder the book The History of US Gold:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/the-history-of-us-gold

Drinking flask in the shape of an NES cart:

http://www.inkwhiskey.com/process/

The glitch that makes it possible to complete Super Mario Bros 3 in under 3 minutes.

http://tasvideos.org/2588M.html

Night Trap re-release announcement:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NightTrap/

Pre-order Hyperkin’s RetroN 5 system:

http://hyperkin.com/retro/retron-5.html

Pre-order the Analogue NT:

http://analogueinteractive.com/products/analogue-nt

The now finished Jupiter Ace eBay auction:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-entire-iconic-Jupiter-ACE-project-including-the-brand-itself-/321400883511

More information on the Moband adapter for the Dreamcast:

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?51856

MilioNESy for the NES:

http://nesdevcompo.nintendoage.com/contest14/

Ninjajar for the ZX Spectrum:

http://www.mojontwins.com/juegos_mojonos/ninjajar/

Abbaye Des Morts for the ZX Spectrum:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37049&page=30

Commando Arcade for the Commodore 64:

http://www.n0stalgia.org/common/pages/releases.php?op=showrelease&id=321

Darkness for the Commodore 64:

http://www.binaryzone.org/retrostore/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=Darkness+Achim

The Bob DeCrescenzo Collection for the Atari 7800:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/225425-the-pacmanplus-sanctioned-30th-anniversary-cart-no-pms/

Hack Super Spongebob Kart for the SNES:

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1977/

Pre-order Commodore Amiga adventure Tales of Gorluth:

http://www.talesofgorluth.de/

More information on Dreamcast first person shooter Hypertension: Harmony of Darkness:

http://www.goatstorepublishing.com/news/50/15/Hypertension/

Further information on Leisure Suit Larry for NES:

http://elblogdelafro.com/leisure-suit-larry-llega-a-nes/

A sneak peek of Sydney Hunter and The Mayan’s Revenge for NES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncaCdXHjcQQ

More information on Rick Dangerous for the SNES:

http://allgamers.fr/13822/rick-dangerous-va-explorer-la-super-nintendo/

Fan translation for Dragon Knife on NES:

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2196/

Fan translation for Don Doko Don 2 on NES:

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2198/

Fan translation for Golf Club — Birdie Rush on NES:

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2206/