RQ: RetroNomicon Quarterly - Issue 1 | Summer 2025

The first issue of RetroNomicon Quarterly is both artifact and invitation. It’s a richly illustrated grimoire filled with exclusive game previews, a dev spotlight, and a full-throttle look at the current state of retro gaming.

Included in this tome:

• The Evolution of Retro Gaming— A feature-length incantation charting the sacred timeline of retro gaming in 2025.
• Bit By Bit, Built By Fans — Revelations about those who bind soul to silicon and build new legends on sacred plastic.
• Freshly Conjured — Our altar of 15+ homebrew games, previewed and revealed. Titles like Kouyate, Malasombra, Banana Bash, and Children of Magia shimmer and flicker with unholy promise.
• The Second Coming of SEGA — A prophecy fulfilled. The Genesis returns in the hands of believers.
• Summonings, rituals, and missives from the field—developer interviews, convention encounters, and scene whispers
• Plus: Music from the void and the First Fragment of the Operation of Siphone.

This is a volume of power. A collector’s grimoire for the cartridge-curious and the chronically enchanted.

Turn the page. Open the gate. And may your consoles be blessed.

Unearthed. Unfiltered. Unholy.

RetroNomicon Quarterly is a print-and-digital magazine conjured for those who still hear the hum of old machines in their bones. We chronicle the living rituals of retro gaming, from homebrew devs building new games for ancient consoles, to chiptune musicians, pixel artists, collectors, and the faithful few still blowing into cartridges and pressing Start.

Each issue is a handcrafted grimoire:

• Packed with previews of new NES, Genesis, Game Boy, and C64 titles
• Interviews with underground developers and scene elders
• Commentary from beyond the veil (and from our dark liege, Siphone, The Tentacled One)
• Essays, features, con reports, puzzles, and pixel-bound madness

Whether you’re a collector, developer, or just someone who knows the golden age never ended, you’ve found your new sacred text.

So open the tome. The signal is strong. And the past... is very much alive.

Our Mission

To preserve the sacred spark of retro gaming, and ignite it anew.

We exist to chronicle the bold, the strange, and the visionary. Those who craft new games for ancient machines, summon soul from silicon, and dare to defy the obsolescence of time.

Through print and pixel, cartridge and curse, we give voice to the faithful creators, pixel conjurers, and hardware mystics who keep the old gods alive.

This is no nostalgia trip. This is resurrection.