Category: Computers
Mattias Gustavsson recently shared some interesting News on Facebook about a game called Afterworld. Even though this is the first time I have heard about this project, after a bit of investigating, it seems that this isn’t new News at all, as Mattias started work on the project way back in 2014. The game is much inspired by an old…
Back in June Nogalious was released for Windows PC. A successful Kickstarter project from 2017, Nogalious is a retro platformer, much in the style of many 8-bit video games of yesteryear. The evil Darama has kidnapped your daughter Mariet with a dark purpose that goes beyond ruling Russadir. You must cross different worlds until you reach the castle of Darama,…
I’m sure many of you have played Psytronik’s awesome Soulless on the Commodore 64 by now, a fantastic platform adventure with massive maps to explore, stunningly detailed graphics & animation, plus some very atmospheric soundtracks. For those of you that aren’t aware, a sequel is in the making. It was announced in May that the cavern level of the game…
We covered Clive Townsend’s upcoming Saboteur 3 back in June, which I am sure you are all very excited to hear about. It seems there is more good News on the horizon, with an announcement on Facebook not long ago by SimFabric Studio that Sabotuer will be heading it’s way to the Nintendo Switch console. The Switch version will be…
Anyone self-respecting Commodore Amiga owner must surely be familiar with Graftgold, arguably one of the most prominent and talented British software houses during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among the talented programmers and artists to work alongside Steve Turner was Andrew Braybrook, author of critically acclaimed Uridium for the Commodore 64, and many other titles; he runs and maintains a personal…
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, originally developed by Bitmap Brothers and released back in 1990, is a futuristic cyberpunk themed sports game that combined elements from both Ice Hockey and Handball, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful sports game of the early 90s era. In a shining example of what positive outcomes can be produced by…
I recently received an email from one of our readers who asked us… “Why don’t we feature more Indie Games?” This is a good question, and in the past we have in fact featured a few Indie titles and Steam releases we thought were fitting. However, over time, these kinda got pushed to the back of the queue. As most…
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
RetroGames Limited has just announced that the Reset64 2017 Game of the Year winner, Galencia will be making its way to TheC64 Mini as a new free game. To be added as part of an upcoming firmware update, Galencia is a high quality single screen shoot’em up highly inspired by Galaga, programmed by Jason Aldred and released by Protovision, to…
