Author: Paulo Garcia
The Portuguese-speaking Clube MSX Magazine is starting the online pre-sale of its issue 11. The magazine can be purchased at the Clube MSX website for R$ 24,90 (US$ 5) plus shipping. For international shipping, the buyer has to follow the link https://www.clubemsx.com.br/international-shipping What is in issue #11? Every issue of Clube MSX includes a few bonuses, and #11 is no…
River Raid was, alongside Missile Command and Enduro, one of the games I played the most on my Atari 2600. The thrill of trying to go just a little ahead and get that another bridge and the frustration of dying when going through some of the narrower paths just kept me going back and replay the game many, many times….
If you own ZX Spectrum, you probably know about the ZX Dandanator Mini, a game cartridge that is equipped with an EEPROM and aims to be a platform for developing and releasing cartridge games for the Sinclair machine. The same team that has created the ZX Dandanator is releasing a new add-on for it. ‘Multiply’ is a small board that…
I know many people don’t read as much anymore in this current digital age and the Short Attention Span problem the Internet brought us is likely one of the main culprits (get off my lawn, you hooligans!). However, we all love video games. If they are retro-games even more, maybe you would be interested in this bundle. StoryBundle, a Humble-bundle…
Always seen as the older poor cousin of the Commodore 64, the VIC-20 games are often underestimated by those that are not familiar with the machine. Back in the day, the VIC-20 had excellent games, and nowadays, a vibrant and active community keeps releasing high-quality homebrew for the machine. One of the most recent examples of that is Overthrown, a…
Badgerpunch Games has teamed up with a group of seasoned retro games develop and are offering a good deal with The C64 Xmas Bundle, consisting of nothing less than 15 games for your C64. This bundle combines holiday-themed games and other recent paid and free games. For anyone looking for a collection of lovingly crafted escapes into yesterday’s hardware, there…
Blake Patterson has posted on his excellent blog “The Byte Cellar,” an excellent article where he talks about his 35 years as an amiga user. As he says initially, it is a “meandering and reminiscent” type of post, which I’d say is one of the best types of reading when we feel walking down memory lane for an extra dose…
When I interviewed Paul Gardner-Stephen last June, one of his answers mentions the importance of the community for the project. He specifically said: Yes, we really want a strong community. That is central to everything. A lot of it will grow organically, but we are also thinking about some competitions. We also hope that the demo competitions will soon have…
After extending the deadline until November 23rd, Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020, the largest game development competition dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, enters the voting phase and publishes all fifteen games that are running to win the best ZX Spectrum game of 2020. Results of the competition will be announced on December 12, 2020. Games will be judged on their…
Jonathan Cauldwell, the father of the Arcade Game Designer and the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer, wrote me this morning to tell me he has just released a custom ZX Spectrum ROM that runs AGD, freeing up the entire Spectrum RAM for users’ games. Because of that, games can naturally be much bigger than before. The new ROM is written from…
