The Retro Joypad

A blog all about my favourite retrogaming handhelds, consoles and games, some reflections on gaming history and now covering mobile games occasionally too!

Saturday, 21 June 2025

Tennis Elbow 4 - best tennis game ever!

Many years ago on my desktop PC I discovered a really fun little tennis game called Tennis Elbow so was quite excited recently to have disco...

Playdate Season Two has been excellent so far!

Regular readers will already be aware what a huge fan I am of Panic's little yellow Playdate crank operated handheld and at the end of M...

Steam is now my favourite gaming platform!

I write about this as there are quite a few remakes of classic retro games available such as Asteroids and Missile Command so think that mak...

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Oh dear, MCM Comicon/EGX is back at Excel - don't go!

I was extremely disappointed to see last week the return of a joint MCM Comicon/EGX event at London's Excel at the end of October. I we...

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Smash Badminton (iOS/Android) Review

Here at The Retro Joypad we like to cover the occasional mobile game as well and I've recently discovered an absolute gem, Smash Badmi...

Miyoo Mini Flip version 2 - an improvement?

The issues with version 1 of the Miyoo Mini Flip have been well documented on Discord, Reddit and elsewhere online, the main one of which wa...

My favourite retro game developers

Each time I used to hear the Capcom jingle when loading a game on my SNES as a boy I knew I was in for a quality gaming experience. Capco...

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