Author: Paulo Garcia
Info Guide is a Russian e-zine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum. For all of us that don’t speak Russian, the issue #12 is not fully translated to English. It includes: a large collection of new beeper engines city history collected by many people, with the photos of old papers, books, and catalogs several articles about 3D effects the internals of some games…
I was going over my feed looking for good news to post here when I found this one coming from NintendoAge and at first, I thought I’d got the wrong idea. After reading it a couple of times, I realized we are talking about a six-figure bounty reward for the original artwork used for the game Contra released for the…
If you, like me, just bought an Amiga 500 with the A501 memory expansion, you are probably very excited and ready to start playing with it for hours and hours. The original memory expansion is installed underneath the computer, accessible by the trapdoor you will see below: The problem is, that the expansion board, besides the 512K expansion has also…
Kotaku has published an interesting article reporting that Activision’s Dragster for the Atari 2600 World record set by Todd Rogers 35 years ago was removed from Twin Galaxies, an organization that tracks video game records and high scores. Although Rogers had proved his feat using a Polaroid photo, people now believe that he managed to fool everybody until today. Kotaku continues…
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 1993 for the NES just got a ZX Spectrum port! This game is a spinoff of the arcade Final Fight, but with a different art style, with all characters following the Chibi style (big heads and childish bodies). Developed by the Alexander Udotov (Sanchez), with graphics by Eugene Rogulin (ER), and music…
The BASIC 10Liners contest is, for me, one of the highlights of the retro scene and I am happy to announce that the 7th edition of the competition is already online, accepting new entries. This year, the organizers have changed a few rules after receiving some feedback from the previous edition. The most important change is that for the PUR-80…
Although Glen is currently covering a conversion from the arcade version of Defender to the Color Computer, he took the time to step back a bit and write an article that gives an overview of the process to convert an arcade game to the Color Computer. The post is not very long, and also is easier to grasp the overall…
I am already regretting to write this post since I cannot accept anything Internet-related is vintage. On the other hand, I understand that someone reading this who’s 24 years old would be saying “wow, Mosaic was created before I was born!” so here is the news out of respect of the younger generations! Mosaic, the first popular web browser is…
We, “retro” enthusiasts, know well that time goes too fast and we are all aging at the same speed, but we never can expect when someone in the retro scene passes away. This morning I learned through many UK gaming outlets that Bob Wakelin has passed away. He was mostly known in UK and the rest of Europe where Ocean…
It is fairly common to hear stories of people that either kept their first computer since childhood or purchased the same model as the one they had back then. I just had a slightly different experience on my own. I recently went back to Brazil to visit family and attend my sister’s wedding. As any trip of that focus on…
