Retro Gaming Australia

Xbox Live Arcade
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams – 1200 points
Capcom Arcade Cabinet 1986 pack (Side Arms, Legendary Wings and Trojan) – 800 points

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

WiiU Virtual Console
Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (NES) – $AU0.30 until April 18

Nintendo eShop (North America)

WiiU Virtual Console
Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (NES) – $US0.30 until April 18

Wii Virtual Console
Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior (Neo Geo) – 900 points

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Capcom Arcade Cabinet 1986 pack (Side Arms, Legendary Wings and Trojan) – $AU14.45

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Hogs of War (PSOne Classics) – $US5.99

Discounts

Good Old Games

New Releases
Syndicate Wars – $US5.99
Clive Barker’s Undying – $US5.99

Discounts
60% off Atari published games

Steam
Retro City Rampage – $US4.99
Commandos Collection – $US3.74 or $US1.24 each
Broken Sword: Director’s Cut – $US1.24
Broken Sword 2 – $US1.49
Broken Sword 3 – $US1.49
Jagged Alliance 2 Gold – $US4.99
Choplifter HD – $US2.49
OddWorld: Munch’s Oddysee – $US2.99
OddWorld: Stranger’s Wrath HD – $US5.99

Capcom has announced that they will be releasing the two classic Dungeons & Dragons arcade beat ’em ups, Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, WiiU eShop and PCs in June.

The games will be released together in a pack called Chronicles of Mystara. Enhancements include the usual “HD” filters and drop-in/drop-out online multiplayer for up to four players. The pack has been developed by Iron Galaxies, who were responsible for Marvel vs. Capcom: Origins and Darkstalkers Resurrection.

Previously the only way to play these games at home was to track down the Japanese Saturn release, which could be a pricey endeavour.

Capcom and WayForward announced today that they will be producing a new DuckTales game for release on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and WiiU eShop later this year.

Entitled DuckTales Remastered, the game is heavily inspired by the pair of DuckTales games Capcom developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the early 1990s.

Capcom: bring back the Moon theme and we’ll forgive you for taking 20 years to do this.

Inspired by the Pauline and Mario switcheroo in Donkey Kong by Mike Mika, animator Kenna W. and her video game programmer boyfriend decided that a similar thing could be implemented in The Legend of Zelda.

Together they produced a ROM hack they’ve dubbed Zelda Starring Zelda, with Zelda now taking over the role of the main protagonist, complete with new sprites to match.

You can read all about the development of the project and get the ROM from Kenna’s blog.

Hot off the heels of Mike Mika’s Pauline hack for Donkey Kong, ROMHacking.net’s Kishi has released a similar effort for Super Mario Bros., which puts players in the shoes of Princess Peach, who has to rescue Mario from Bowser’s clutches.

While put together relatively quickly, Kishi’s hack, entitled Super Mario Bros: Peach Edition, is actually quite competent. Sprites have been redrawn too, so they’re not as ghastly as the original Peach sprite, and the animation is quite impressive for a quick project.

You can get the patch here.

Xbox Live Arcade
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – 1200 points

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)
Nothing

Nintendo eShop (North America)

3DS Virtual Console
Mega Man 3 (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – $AU21.95
Resident Evil Super Bundle (Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil Code Veronica X HD, Resident Evil 4 HD, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles HD, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles HD and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City) – $AU99.95
Resident Evil 1+2+3 Bundle – $AU21.95
Resident Evil 4 HD & Code Veronica X HD Bundle – $AU24.95
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Monsters Inc: Scare Island (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Warriors Orochi 2 (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Maken Shao: Demon Sword (PS2 Classics) – $AU7.35

Discounts
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for PSVita – Free for PSPlus subscribers

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Darkstalkers Resurrection (Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge & Darkstalkers 3) – $US14.99
Favorite Dear – Enkan No Monogatari (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
First Queen IV (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Mahjong Uranai Fortuna -Tsuki No Megami Tachi (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Motorhead High Velocity Entertainment (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Oz No Mahoutsukai -Another World- Rungrung (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Sentimental Graffiti (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Trump Shiyouyo! Fukkoku-Ban (PSOne Classics Import) – $US5.99
Kessen II (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
Ubisoft sale: 20% off for all, 50% off for PSPlus
Prince of Persia HD Trilogy – $US27.99 / $US19.59
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell HD Trilogy – $US27.99 / $US19.59
Prince of Persia Classic – $US6.99 / $US4.89

Good Old Games

New Releases
Magic Carpet II: The Netherworlds – $US5.99
Omikron: The Nomad Soul – $US9.99
Catacombs Pack – $US5.99

Discounts
60% off Enlight games

Steam
35-50% off all Ubisoft catalogue titles
Jet Set Radio HD – 75% off

Imagine this. A father and his young daughter play a lot of old games together. The daughter’s favourite game is Donkey Kong, but she’s bummed out that she can’t play as Pauline and rescue Mario. What does a father do?

Most of us would just leave it at that, but not Mike Mika. The rather industrious father hacked the game and drew new sprites so that his father could play as Pauline and rescue Mario from the clutches of DK.

A patch to play the hack will be available soon.

The GCW-Zero was a recently successful Kickstarter project that aimed to deliver (yet another) a retro gaming centric handheld. Now the folks behind it want some more crowdfunding bucks to help them in their next goal – buying the Atari brand.

How much do they think they need? $US250,000.

The assets of Atari are going up for auction, and there is no guarantee that the effort by GCW-Zero to acquire the rights will be successful even if they meet the basic goal of their fundraising drive. They state in the drive that if they are unsuccessful in getting the Atari rights, they’ll use the money to license games from the likes of Capcom and Sega.

Xbox Live Arcade
Capcom Arcade Cabinet – 1985 Pack 1: Gun.smoke, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, Section-Z – 800 MSP

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

Wii Virtual Console
Metal Slug 4 (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Legend of the River King (Game Boy Color) – $AU6.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

Wii Virtual Console
The King of Fighters ’98 (Neo Geo) – 900 points

3DS Virtual Console
Wrecking Crew (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

New Releases
Capcom Arcade Cabinet – 1985 Pack 1: Gun.smoke, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, Section-Z – $AU14.45
Midnight Club (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Midnight Club II (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45
Chronicles of Narnia Double Pack (PS2 Classics) – $AU21.95
Bolt (PS2 Classics) – $AU14.45

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Capcom Arcade Cabinet – 1985 Pack 1: Gun.smoke, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, Section-Z – $US9.99
Midnight Club (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Midnight Club II (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99

Discounts
Retro City Rampage (Cross Buy) – 50% off, $US7.34 (PSPlus)

Good Old Games

New Releases
Realms of Chaos – $US5.99
Settlers III: Ultimate Collection – $US9.99
Blade of Darkness – $US5.99

Discounts
Superb Strategy Weekend

Steam
Max Payne – $US3.39
Max Payne 2: Fall of Max Payne – $US3.39

Harebrained Schemes, the developer of Shadowrun Returns has posted a video of some gameplay from the the much anticipated cyberpunk RPG. The project was made possible through a successful Kickstarter campaign run in the middle of last year.

If you didn’t get in to back the campaign last year, you can pre-order the game from Harebrained Schemes’ website.