Month: January 2020

Gamers’ Choice Award 2019 – It’s the Amiga’s turn!

Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) kicked off it’s poll for the inaugural RGN Amiga Gamers’ Choice 2019 Award over this past recent weekend with hundreds of new Amiga game enthusiasts lodging their votes to decide the winner. This year’s award nominations were open to all games (including ports, remakes and near completed beta versions) made available to the general public during…

Retro Revisited: Odyssey (Amiga)

We take a look at the charming mid-90s fantasy-themed Amiga arcade adventure!

Retro Revisited: Assassin (Amiga)

This Amiga platformer still has killer looks, but is the gameplay still as sharp?

Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters, Commodore 64

Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters is an upcoming Commodore 64 game by Carleton Handley (code), Saul Cross (graphics) and Hans Axelsson-Svala (music). In it’s early development the games title was temporarily named “Catrap (Pitman)”. Many Game Boy fans will be familiar. Catrap also known as Pitman in Japan, is a puzzle-platform game originally developed for the Sharp MZ-700 computer…

Tiny Emus, On the Go Gaming.

Some interesting News popped up on Twitter recently regarding a website that is at least New to me. “Tiny Emus” has a lot to offer the on-the-go Retro Gamer. Perfect for someone who doesn’t have the time nor the patience to mess around fiddling with emulator settings. Visiting the website, you will be presented with a full page of games…

Wendetta 2175 Commodore Amiga CD32 Review

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and if that’s the case, 1996’s Wendetta 2175 is the SHUMP equivalent of a decent cover band, it hits all the right notes, but you’ve seen it all before. However, being the bastard child of Team17’s Project X and Super Stardust is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when the small…

ZX Parachute – When Nintendo Game & Watch meets the ZX Spectrum

ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…

Retro Revisited: Tearaway Thomas (Amiga)

With an unprecedented sense of speed, Tearaway Thomas is hardcore Amiga platformer not for the faint of heart!

Join us on Discord!

We’ve wanted to build a ViTNO community for supporters of our site, as well as friends and fans of the retro computing scene for quite some time. Sadly, as cool as a Teletype or BBS might have been, even vintage computing enthusiasts need to move with the times, so instead we welcome you to join our very own Discord server!…