End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro — change means faulty or ‘aesthetically unfortunate’ consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in

GameStop has declared that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are now officially retro consoles, with the change now allowing trade-in of any console that still powers on, even if they are faulty or “aest…

Remember the Nokia Twist and Motorola Flipout? This handheld brings their weirdest trick back

Anbernic built its name on retro clones, but a new leak shows the company trying something original. A video reveals a square Android handheld with a screen that swivels to expose hidden controls, borrowing the Flipout’s mechanical trick for emulation….

385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated

A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been “100% backed up!”

ATAboy bridges old IDE drives to the 21st century with Open Source USB host bridge — powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and with custom “Award” BIOS menu

Using the power of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2’s RP2350, ATAboy bridges the hard drives of old, with the computers of today.

‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show — signal propagation through the 8-bit circuits animated

A spectacular new CMOS FET level visualization of an Atari 2600 loading data has been shared by a ‘mad scientist.’

Developer creates real-time 3D shader demo for the Game Boy Color — you can download the ROM or interact with the 3D teapot online

A canny developer has managed to coax a Game Boy Color into running an interactive, user-controlled, real-time 3D shader demo.

ZX Spectrum flies simulated spacecraft using BASIC, Python, and serial — Kerbal Space Program Lunar lander powered by 1980s hardware

Controlling a lunar lander using a 1980s home computer is not for the faint of heart, and this project shows how one intrepid developer linked the world of BASIC to the simulated world of Kerbal Space Program using Python …