Author: Paulo Garcia
Although Brazil has a ever growing gaming community playing the latest PS4 and XBox ONE titles, due to its large population with (much) lower income, a local company called TecToy still sells thousands of Sega Master System consoles, after 30 years it was first released! Atlas Obscura website has published an interesting article telling how Sega beats Nintendo using such…
The light cycle battles featured in Tron are probably the most iconic sequences of the movie, and it spawn hundreds of games with the same gameplay. I remember to play it on my TRS-80 Model I in a monochrome TV, and even with those chunky graphics it was a blast!. The Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis) fans have now an…
The Amiga 30th Anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California happened last weekend (on July 25th and 26th), and if you, like many of us, couldn’t be present, the Amiga.org user ‘eliyahu’ has posted links of some photos and videos of the event, gathered from different sources. You can get all the links following the forum post…
Nostalgia Nerd has published a new video review about the Commodore Game System. Manufactured and released by Commodore in late 1990, it’s production span lasted less than a year and was by all accounts a failure in most departments, especially commercial. Get the full story watching the video, along with some snippets of lesser known information. Be also aware that…
RGCD just announced the 5th edition of its C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development competition. The deadline will be Feb 1st, 2016, which means the contestants will have 6 months to come up with awesome 16kb games for the Commodore 64. The organizers are also in the process to secure prizes and sponsors for the competition, and they plan to announce…
Kansasfest 2015 is now part of Apple II history, and if you weren’t among the 76 people that attended it, now you have the chance to watch several sessions from the event. The videos are not from a single source, but you can easily find them all clicking on the link below. The next Kansasfest will happen on July 19-24,…
Reset Magazine of July 2015 is out with lots of good stuff. Other than the regular news and reviews, it brings special articles about Zzap!64 magazine, and a featured article about the the game C64 Elite. Download: Reset #7
If you ever thought about learning a bit of MSX Assembler, today is your lucky day. The Nestruo, Toni Galvez and Wonder entered MSXdev’14 with “World Rally”, a car racing game, but they weren’t able to finish it on time. After some time they realized that they wouldn’t finish it at all, since there are several routines that needed to…
/r/retrogaming Podcast, The official podcast of the /r/retrogaming subreddit, released episode 4 few days ago, and it brings Marty Goldberg and Curt Vendel, authors of the book ‘Atari Inc. Business is Fun‘. Curt is also the guy behind the development of Atari Flashback 1, 2 and 2+. We can say that they know a lot about Atari and its history….
The Computer History Museum has been releasing several historical software source code for the past years, like the Apple II DOS, Word for Windows v1.1 and so on. Right on time for the Amiga 30th anniversary, the museum has gotten authorization from Electronic Arts to release the source code of its drawing program for the Amiga – Deluxe Paint. Created…
