Author: CommodoreBlog
Unfortunately the weekend is nearly over and as we creep towards another Monday morning, with sad thoughts of going back to work, Kitty is here to cheer you up with more awesome Retro News! So what have we got for you this evening? ZX Spectrum again! :-) This one is by David Clarke and he has teased a new sizzling…
The amount of ZX Spectrum releases over this weekend has been crazy, and here we are again with another new Speccy game! “Mike, the guitar” is a new AGD game by Sebastian Braunert. Mike, the little guitar, has a big wish: To play a solo! His favourite band is Nirvana, so he wants to perform “Smells like teen spirit“! But…
Balloon Fight is an action video game developed by Nintendo. The original 1984 arcade version was released for the Nintendo VS. System as Vs. Balloon Fight, and its Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart was internationally released in 1986. The game play is similar to the 1982 game Joust from Williams Electronics. My fondest memories of Balloon fight was on the original…
Psytronik Software has announced two new C64 games for pre-order, Steel Ranger and Pains ‘n’ Aches – A Knight ‘n’ Grail Adventure. Steel ranger is an action-packed run & gun arcade-adventure. Take control of a cybernetic hero and explore a massive world filled with traps, enemies and huge boss encounters. If you liked Hessian you are going to love Steel…
ZXombies, Dead Flesh, is a new flick-screen action survival horror inspired by The Walking Dead. You are a lone soldier left from your squad in a city swarming with the undead, after the zombie apocalypse. You’ll have to escort the few remaining survivors between safe-houses, to reach safety east of the city. Major Derring awakes with concussion. He drags himself…
Friday seems to be the day for lot’s of Speccy releases, as we see yet another new game appear on the WOS Forums. Jet Set 40-40 is a new redesign version of the classic Jet Set Willy game by Matthew Smith. With a lot of similarities to the original Jet Set Willy Map, avid Speccy fans will feel right at…
A few days ago we gave you the latest heads up on Allan Turvey’s playable demo of ‘Roust’ (ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust). Today, as promised we have some more exciting Retro News! For the pocket money price of only $2.50 (Is it 1982 again?), you can purchase the full version, so head over to highriser.itch.io/roust…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: IK Gotham City In Fingerpori Style, Jake the Snake V2.2, Retaliate Preview 2 +3H, CCGMS Digital Paint 3.0+, D030 Tester V1.0, Pain In The Asm, Dig Dug Multicolor, Retaliate V0.2.1 Beta (Hotfix), Lemmings Loading Screen Re-Imagined, Find The Pussy, Axe of Rage +10DMHF, Cold Hirst, Lemmings +15DF [easyflash], Humppasauna, UFF +2TPDF [english],…
Scene group Excess have released an EasyFlash version of Lemmings for your good old C64! -Lemmings was transferred from original tapes as source and cross compared to disk release. -All code was manually disassembled and source code recreated for the team to work on. -Six tapes sides full of 100 levels were manually transferred and hand stitched together. -Custom loader…
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 and he has sent over some fantastic News regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 5 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Beautiful! There has been a lot of new…
