Author: Alec
Italian indie studio Warlock Entertainment has published a short trailer of Raging Orlando, a new game currently in development for the Commodore 64. There’s no official word on the game’s plot or mechanics, but the trailer certainly gives a good idea of what to expect. Players must guide their tiny knight throughout a series of interconnected screens, each filled with…
Sony has announced it’s plans to launch the PlayStation Classic, a new ‘mini’ retro console based on the original PS1. Costing $99.99 USD, the unit is expected to launch December 3rd 2018 with 20 games built in. The full list of titles has yet to be revealed, but Sony has name-dropped some of the biggest titles in the line-up, which…
Spanish indie developer Kai Magazine has opened pre-orders for it’s upcoming role-playing game for the MSX2, The Sorrow of Gahlan’Thur. Set in an expansive open world, players must seek out a powerful relic rumoured to belong to Gadhlan’Thur, an ancient orc king. Based on what we’ve seen in the official pre-launch trailer, the game seems to blend elements from Wonder Boy…
After 18 months of blood, sweat, tears, not to mention late nights, Matt Gray has finally released the digital version of Reformation 2, the highly-anticipated second album containing remixes of classic Commodore 64 music. I’ve always been somewhat wary of handing money to crowd-sourced funding campaigns, but I made the exception when the Kickstarter for the original Reformation was launched…
As ardent fans of the Commodore 64 and it’s SID chip, we were more than a little excited when we spotted a tweet announcing the release of SidAMP, a SID player designed specifically for Android phones and mobile devices. The app is the work of Vladimir (@igvlada), a coder and C64 fan developing games and apps under the pseudonym ‘GarageApps’….
Love it or loathe it, I doubt that there’s a reader among you who hasn’t experienced the Microsoft Windows operating system in some form since it’s first introduction way back in 1985. Although it has long enjoyed it’s position as the predominant OS in the world of desktop computing, the road to it’s seemingly unassailable position – not to mention…
Following a hiatus of over 20 years, Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has resumed his work on Culmins, a puzzle game for classic Atari 8-bit computers. Originally a collaboration with Rodrigo Cabrera (music) and Nestor Mercado (graphics), Fuenzalida has picked up the reigns, hoping to finally complete the project. Talking with Atariteca, he recalls that he first began work on the game…
*Updated* – Sadly, it proved to be nothing more than a meme put out by Thalamus. Despite the disappointment this time, we expect a Creatures remake or update to be a case of “when”, rather than “if”… *Original Story* Normally we’d stay away from posting about mere rumours, but we’ll make an exception for this not-so-subtle tweet from the Thalamus…
Secretly (or not-so-secretly), we’d guess that one of the ambitions harboured by most retro gaming fans is to own an arcade cabinet. Real arcade cabs are pretty hefty pieces of equipment, difficult to come by, and expensive/difficult to maintain, making them an difficult proposition for the average household. Even replica cabinets can be prohibitively expensive, being seen as an ultra-niche…
If you’re looking to settle those playground and school-yard arguments as to which gaming console system was ‘best’, then The Centre of Computing History has just the thing to settle the debate once and for all! The Cambridge-based museum is set to release the second edition of it’s hugely popular trump cards, this time focusing on classic video-game consoles and…
