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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
If you’re a regular reader of my work, then you’re probably aware of the catchphrase ‘the retro gaming community always surprises me’ that I seem to have given myself. I say it all the time, but only because it’s true. For a community that collects old media, you sure have an endless supply of new and exciting ideas, and it’s a privilege to report on them every day.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
I’ve spent years seeing Mario popping out of warp pipes in various games, but the idea of popping a Pringles tube to see if I’ve won a Nintendo Switch and his latest game is a pretty novel idea. I popped into my local Tesco to grab some snacks this morning and spotted Mario, Luigi, and Toad staring back at me on the front of three Pringles tubes, each with a ‘Scan, Pop, Play’ message on the top. Intrigued, I bought a pack and took them back to my desk to find out more.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
The Playdate is one of those consoles that never fails to make us feel intrigued. We’re all used to the general shape and form of a Game Boy, but whenever I pick up the Playdate I still feel like I’m discovering it for the first time again. It’s a handheld that defies the norm, largely due to the hand crank sticking out of the side, and one that promotes devs making their own creations for other users to test out and play.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
We covered the news that the first three Tomb Raider games were arriving on Blaze Entertainment’s Evercade System after news of their new Giga Cart range leaked online back in April 2024. The arrival of the Giga Cart meant that the Evercade could handle bigger, more demanding games than before, and the idea of playing the first three Tomb Raider games on the Evercade family of systems was a dream come true.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
As retro gaming enthusiasts and nostalgia hunters, we make it our mission to try and visit as many retro gaming stores around the world as possible.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
If news about Aardman and Mattel teaming up to bring Pingu back to our screens wasn’t enough to get you shouting ‘NOOT NOOT’ from the rooftops, then this article might do the trick. Pingu was a defining voice in my childhood growing up in the 90s, which is probably why I speak so much rubbish today.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
Digital Eclipse are masters of the the interactive documentary, a term we discovered when we chatted with the company’s Editorial Director Chris Kohler on the Retro Dodo Podcast. His mission to preserve iconic titles from Retro Gaming past is a very important one, and now retro lovers can own collector’s editions of Tetris Forever, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, and The Making of Karateka.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
Tetris Forever was always going to be an exciting purchase for Tetris fans, but now that it’s shipping with a dedicated Tetris Handheld for collectors to snap up, it’s become a must-have item that we all need in our lives. Looking like a cross between the Game Boy Pocket and the ModRetro Chromatic, it comes with two Tetris games pre-installed and a branded stand to show it off in your office or games room.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
‘Alexa, play Another One Bites The Dust by Queen’, because sadly another emulator has disappeared from the face of the earth. DraStic has been a go-to DS Emulator for a while now. We ranked it second in terms of performance underneath DeSmuME, and it was a solid Android emulator that always played games flawlessly and had some neat features like being able to change screen layout depending on the games you were playing.
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2 months ago | 
retrododo.com | Seb Santabarbara
If you’ve been following the handheld modding scene closely over the past couple of years then you will undoubtedly have seen some of Hairo Satoh’s creations on his social media channels @haihaisb. He’s turned rare and strange controllers into handhelds, made keyrings into Bluetooth controllers, created custom shells, and much more. His latest feat has been to get Mario Kart DS working on two of his creations – a DMG DS with a slide-up screen, and a DS Lite with a flip-back GBA SP screen.
