News

• The Nintendo Switch will be released March 1st.  No word on the Virtual Console transfers  or whether we will have to buy our classic games again…for the 3rd time in a row.  Appropriately, NintendoAge has a ton of threads about it.

DIY/Maker Gaming 

• Adafruit: World’s Largest Vertical Maze Illuminated With Thousands of LED Lights 

• Adafruit: Sublime: And Alternate Arduino Text Editor

• Room 13 Is A Game made with ClickTeam’s  Multimedia Fusion 3, now on Steam.

• Raspebbery Pi has released Compute Module 3!

• The Game Creatros (Dark Basic): Launched Kickstarter for My World, which looks mighty Minecraftian

• RPG Maker released Sci-Fi Battkebacks Background Pack

Retro Products

• Sadly, Nothing this week…

Barcades/Arcades

• The Museum Of Pinball will have their Arcade Expo 3.0 March 17-19, 2017

Reviews

• Hey Poor Player posted a retro review of Ghosts And Goblins
• RetroGamer reviewed Autoduel from Origin systems

Digital Store Highlights

• F-Xero X is now available on the Wii U Virtual Console
• Red Faction (PS2) has been available for the PS4 in the Playstaion Store since December.

Podcast/Youtube Highlights

• Antic Interviews Ronald Borta from Roklan Software and Paul Cubbage from APX
• Pat has a new CUPodcast up, as well as a ton of other stuff.  It’s hard to keep up.
• Genesis Gems ranks every game they have ever covered
• The 2600 Game By Game Podcast covered Space Attack
• Episode 3 of the 7800 Homebrew Podcast is now available
• Episode 20 of The System Masterpieces is out now
• Ten Pence Arcade Covers Alien Syndrome
• RTG 85: Top 5 New Retro Games For 2017, Greatest NES Game Ever

Links:

• 7800 Homebrew Podcast
• Adafruit
• Angry Video Game Nerd
• Antic Podcast
• AtariAge.com
• Armchairarcade.com 
• Click Team
• Construct 2
• DIY Gamer
• Gameduino
• The Game Creators (Dark Basic)
• Gamemaker/YoYo Games
• GOG.com
• Hey Poor Player
• Jag Bar
• Makershed
• NintendoAge.com
• Nintendo Virtual Console
• Pat The NES Punk
• Phaser.io
• Pico 8
• Playstation Store PS2 Games
• RetroGamer Magazine
• RetroJunkies Network
• Retrogaming Roundup
• RetroPie
• RPG Maker
• retronauts.com
• RTG 85
• Smile Game Builder
• Twine
• UploadVR
• Xbox One Backwards Compatibility List

(Note: This news update does not contain ALL the retro gaming news in the world, but it does contain the stuff we here at 8bitrocket.com care the most about: A lot of Atari, plus Sega, Nintendo, 80’s and 90’s PC games, PS1/PS2, DIY/maker gaming, new classic consoles, podcasts we love,  and almost anything else from the 80’s . If you have news you’d like to clue us into, please contact us)