Author: CommodoreBlog
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior by Palace Software was first released for the Commodore 64, back in 1987. Later on it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and MS-DOS. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. In the game’s…
A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
The World of Next website is a new independent resource for finding and sharing ZX Spectrum Next software. As the Next community grows and evolves, more and more software, games, demos and utilities will be written and this site aims to be the #1 resource. In time, you will be able to browse a large database, rate and comment on…
Yes that’s right folks! TheC64 Mini is very close to release, with only 12 days to go! YouTuber The8BitGuy, managed to snag one of these before release date. He announced on Facebook yesterday, that he will be uploading a video with details about everything you need to know about TheC64. So all your questions you have been asking like, ‘Does…
A few days ago our good friends over at Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News about a new ZX Spectrum game called In Nihilum Reverteri. In Nihilum Reverteri by Yerzmyey, is best described as an ‘interactive novel‘, where you read paragraphs of text, then make a choices, which can change the situation of the game. This appears to be a…
David La Monaca contacted us through Facebook today to let us know that issue five of his Italian Retro Gaming Magazine has been released. RetroMagazine is a free PDF magazine dedicated to Retro Computing. Inside, you will find articles about games, programming, curiosities, hardware mods, new software, stories and more! If you can read the Italian language, have a read…
Since the start of this year the website has exploded with popularity and our daily hit count has hit the roof! (thanks guys!) We are overrun with so many emails and private messages sharing the latest Retro Game News, sometimes we end up playing catch up. If we haven’t shared your News yet, don’t worry, we will get around to…
Stunt Car Racer is a racing game released in 1989. Designed by Geoff Crammond, the game was available for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. We recently announced News about a new Atari 8-Bit Port, and now it looks like a new Atari Jaguar version is on the way too! Check out the early…
Checking our inbox today, we received an email from Marco, announcing some lovely News that Tower 57 has been released for AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and AROS! Previously the game was a Kickstarter success which was also released on PC. “In a dystopian, dieselpunk world, where Megatowers are the only enclaves of civilization, a group of extraordinary individuals is sent to…
