Dashine Electronics is launching a light gun controller with a console that includes Time Crisis. The console lets you play light gun shooters on any modern display without the need for additional hardware.
Two retro gaming enthusiasts decided download links were just too fast for their taste, so they developed a way to transmit the software using flashing dots and YouTube. Speeds appear to be very slow, at roughly 30 bits per second in a test video.
A full-sized modern remake of the classic 8-bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer created by Retro Games, and marketed as The Spectrum, looks set to launch shortly. Modeled on the iconic Spectrum 48K design, with rubber block keys and rainbow stripe, the new device offers 48 built-in games and makes it easy for retro enthusiasts to load their own via USB.
An avid retro games collector has claimed a Guinness World Record after creating a system that allows his collection of 444 consoles to be simultaneously connected to a single TV. Ibrahim Al-Nasser from Saudi Arabia rigged the machines using a complex multiple KVM switch system.