Welcome to Retro Game News a new website setup for gamers who are interested in retro video and computer games. This website is still changing, with more content being added constantly. It consists of three main sections – the main page, the news blog and the online web store. However some more sections have now been added such as “Online Resources”, our “Contact Us” page and the “Retro Journal”. The website is going through an exciting phase as it has now grown from a bare bones website into a more fulfilling experience for retro gamers to enjoy. The webstore has just been established and we had about 1000 site visitors and are now actively encouraging user participation via social media (our YouTube channel), the comments section and the contact form. We wish you an enjoyable visit and hope to hear from you soon. Below you will find a brief overview and explanation for the website’s main sections. Long Live Retro Video and Computer Gaming!
MAIN PAGE
This is what you see when you visit the website from it’s URL www.retrogame.news/ It is the the website’s main interface where, at a glance, you can see the latest news in the form of blog posts as well as trending and popular posts. All recent site activity is visible from this page so you are informed from the moment you navigate to this page. Underneath the main slider showing recent activity you will see a section showing every single news headline listed for every month starting with April. Consider this is a sanctuary from all the hustle and bustle of the non-retro video gaming noise of the internet that’s out there. Use this webpage as a landing for you to relax, unwind and reset your mind to get into the recreational and nostalgic flow of the retro video-gaming psychic currents.
News Blog / RGN News Articles
When you click on a post from the main page you will be taken to the news blog part of the website. From here you can easily see all the articles that have been posted organized by date, categories and tags. Feel free to browse through the latest and past news about the discoveries and developments that have occurred in the fascinating world of retro video and computer gaming. You can leave comments on the posts you see as well as share interesting articles to your favorite social media platforms.
When you click on almost any page (not the main page or webstore) including blog posts, online resources and this “About RGN” webpage you will see a side bar menu to the left of the page content. At the top of the bar there are some social media links that link you to my Gravatar page and the RGN YouTube channel. Underneath that you will see a new feature called “Video Game Spotlight” showing a screenshot and information on a retro game which is updated and changed to a different game in the middle of every month.
Keep scrolling lower down the page and you will see a menu showing the most recent comments on the news blog posts which I encourage you to read and respond too. Further down the side bar is yet another new feature called “Hardware Spolight” which features a piece retro gaming hardware or console that you can read about. In our very first Video Game Spotlight you can read about Cyber Citizen Shockman a new Super Nintendo game released last year. In the first “Hardware Spotlight” you will find out about the ModRetro Chromatic 1st Edition a brand new, premium FPGA GameBoy that was released late last year and has already sold out. It’s launch caused some big waves in the retro gaming community.
Online Web-Store
The webstore has been officially launched as of April 27th 2025! At the moment we are stocking some Sony PlayStation 3 games, the titles we stock are nothing but the highest quality games that the PS3 has to offer. We have one rare import, used but in excellent condition and complete. The other game is brand new and sealed and is an absolute banger, guaranteed to scratch that retro itch! In the near future we will stock products that are useful and interesting to retro video and computer gamers. We are located in Australia and at the moment we only post within Australia, but we will soon setup international shipping options. Rest assured postage costs will be kept as a minimum without compromising on safe and secure packaging.
Some of the products that you can look forward to seeing in the near future are more games for the Sony PS3 both brand new high quality games and also second hand rare imported games from Asia and Japan, with English versions being sourced when possible. We are also looking at selling brand new ModRetro games, as well as GameBoy, Gameboy Color, Nintendo NES and Sega Mega Drive homebrew games. Additionally I’m hoping to secure stocks of some Hyperkin Hyper Click Retro Style Mouse’s for Super Nintendo as well as plastic game box protectors for your favorite retro video game consoles. Hopefully I’ll be able to acquire some high quality aftermarket controllers from Hyperkin and Retrobit. A cool bit of retro gaming merchandise that I’m sure a lot you will appreciate is the Hot Wheels Plumber Van toy car from the Super Mario Bros movie will also be in stock soon.
Every single item that is sold in the shop will be of a high quality standard. I will not sell any product that I would not use myself as an enthusiast gamer. Quality is very important and cheaply made products will not make the grade. Each product that I sell is thoroughly researched to ensure it’s of high quality and fit for purpose, therefore the buyer can be assured they are purchasing a good product. Please use the website’s “Contact Us” form if there are any items you wish to see in our store to be able to purchase in the future.
This is an exciting time for our website with the launch of our new webstore and I encourage all website visitors to have a browse of our current products and if possible leave some feedback on what items we should stock to best serve your current and future retro gaming needs. We love to hear from our visitors and no form of contact will go without a timely response unlike many other gaming websites who all too frequently ignore the feedback, comments and questions received from their own visitors.
Retro Journal
This section of the Retro Game News is a basically a snapshot of my most current retro video and computer gaming activity. It’s a good page to visit if you are wondering what game you should play next or what upcoming game releases are worth looking forward to. By reading this part of the website you can get a good idea of the type of gamer I am by seeing the genre’s I like to play, the video game system’s that I prefer, what game’s I’ve finished recently and so forth. Currently this section is still under development so it will very likely change in the future and more than likely will also be expanded on. At the moment it’s split into three parts – games I’ve finished, games I’m playing and un-released games that I’m looking forward to.
Website Mile-Stones & Statistics
This section is about the websites more general site-related mile-stones and statistics.
- YouTube channel launched on the 13th of April 2025
- Website has been operating for 1 month since the domain name was purchased on the 29th of March. The official website launch date was April 4th 2025.
- The news blog part of the website has just reached 20 articles! That’s more than one article per day on average during our first month in operation.
- He have had our first comments (from users other than me) on the news blog and on our YouTube.com channel
- Reach 1000 website visitors per 30 days (2nd of May 2025). We have just reached 1000 visitors per month, the next milestone is 5000 per month and would like to get to 10,000 total visitors by the end of June 2025.
- The website launched it’s online web-store webpages on the 26th of April. The store was stocked with a brand new PS3 retro-style game and a used PS3 Korean game import. In future we aim to find bulk deals so we have more than just one-offs stocked. Currently we are only shipping within Australia. New products coming soon, I’m always on the lookout for good stock to sell on the webshop.
- Adblade Advertizing now approved to allow Retro Game News to build revenue by displaying their advertisements on our website. We have place AdBlade ad’s in the side menu that appears on the right when reading news articles and another one at the very bottom of the home page. Please consider disabling ad blockers and clicking the ads to support us.
- Google AdSense now approved which is another good source of revenue so that RGN can pay it’s own hosting fees with enough clicks. The AdSense ad appears as an overlayed bar at the bottom of the screen which you can click to minimize. There should also be ads at the end of each news blog post.
- Now indexed on Google! This is a big milestone for the website, we can now be found on the largest directory in the world which means there will eventually be thousands of visitors coming here each month. I found the website on page 6 with the search term: “retrogame.news”. Undoubtedly this will have a big effect on the amount of visitors coming in. We currently average only 50 views a day over 30 days but I expect this will increase drastically now that we are visible to millions of internet users around the world.
- Buy Me A Coffee registered so we can now accept donations through PayPal and other means by using the purple coffee shaped icon in the lower right corner Please consider supporting us this way. If we get enough revenue by donations we could possibly get rid of ads altogether. Hosting costs are high and we want the website to be self sufficient and even to turn a profit so we can invest the money into the webshop and source even better products for our customers.
