Updates

Retromaggedon.com has been the target of a sophisticated spam attack over the past few days. Unfortunately, the situation has forced me to place all comments on hold in order to reduce the influx of spam.

While I try to keep the lines of communication between myself and visitors open as possible, this measure is necessary to prevent harm from coming to this site and everyone who visits it, since many of the spam comments we receive contain links to sites which are known to be malicious.

With this in mind, it may take several hours for real user comments to be approved. Please be patient if your comment does not appear on the site immediately. I apologize for the inconvenience this causes. Thanks for your patience.

~tankMage

Months ago I posted that my house is undergoing renovations and things like Retro Game of the Month had to be put on hold. It’s been a long road, but the work is nearly done and I’ll be able to get back into the swing of things by January 2026. To everyone who uses this site: Thank you for your patience!

Rontro and Cowboy Yojimbo also deserve huge thanks for keeping the content flowing while I’ve been busy. Until then, have a great holiday season!

Rontro has done it again and moved up on the leaderboards at Speedrun.com by placing 154th on the Contra board with a new time of 11:07! Please take a moment to visit his channel, because he is an up and coming runner. Plus he’s contributed a lot of passwords, saves, and reviews to this site over the years. Congratulations Rontro!

A while back I created a post stating that Retro Game of the Month and frequent site updates were on hold, because I was getting extensive work done on my house. Unfortunately, there have been some issues with permitting that have delayed construction. In light of this, I’m going to resume posting Retro Game of the Month starting in August along with everything else. That said, I will not be doing Sportsmania this summer due to it being so late in the year.

In addition to resuming a normal schedule, I’m adding a section for Arcade in the Game Catalog. This section will include officially released titles as well as ROM hacks and translations. As usual, it will take some time to flesh out this section, but I plan on working on it for a while.

For years I have kept the comment section completely open to anyone who wishes to ask questions or share their opinions. Spam has always been an issue for the comments section, but it was manageable aside from the occasional spike in bot activity.

The situation changed a couple of years ago, when the amount of spam the site recieved tripled from a handful of comments a day to 20-30 and it’s only gotten worse over time. These comments often have nothing to do with the subject of gaming and contain links to dubious websites. At the same time, legitimate comments sometimes get flagged as spam. This has made it necessary to review every comment manually, which is annoying when 99% of them are from bots. Even worse, time spent combing through spam is time not spent on improving this website.

Over the years I’ve temporarily locked the comments for non-registered users during periods of excessive spam. Usually, I’ve only had to lock comments for a month at most. This method has done little to combat the current spam avalanche, so I’m locking comments to non-registered users indefinitely.

I hate to do this, because I know keeping track of accounts in this day and age is a headache, but the security of this site and its users has to come first. If you wish to leave a comment, please take a few minutes to create an account as shown in the Login/Create Account tab. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, with any luck I’ll be able to reopen the comments to everyone some day.

A few days ago the comments section was locked in an effort to combat spam. This happens every year or so. I have reopened the comments section to everyone and it will likely remain that way for a while.

The comments section is usually open to everyone, but a massive influx of spam has forced me to restrict it to logged in users. Anyone who wishes to comment on a page or topic is welcome to create an account and log in to do so. The comments section will be reopened to anonymous users in the near future.