Category: Computers
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…
The results for the ZX-Dev Conversions competition are in, and the winner is.. (drumroll) Mighty Final Fight! 2nd Place goes to Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and 3rd place was Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey. [vsw id=”DCMdxXL0yQM” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]Final results 1.Mighty Final Fight 2.Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors 3.Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey 4.Retroforce 5.Twinlight 6.Parachute 7.Baby Monkey Alba 8.Bobby Carrot 9.Gandalf 10.ZXombies 11.Saving…
Warhawk is a vertically scrolling shooter published in 1986 by Firebird software. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8bit, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. In the game, the player must dodge and destroy obstacles along a vertically scrolling screen, at the end of each level, there are a large number of ships flying at the player from various…
The ZX Spectrum was one of the greatest 8-bit micros of the day and, along with the C64, was one of the predominant 8-bit gaming platform in the UK during the ’80s and ’90s. With any popular platform, publishers were always looking to increase software sales and one of the most popular and lucrative genres was the arcade conversion. Coders…
In the second in a series articles, I continue on my trip down memory lane as I take you through some of the computing and gaming experiences of childhood, taking in the 8-bit scene, the Commodore Amiga and much more! In the first part of this issue, we leave the Commodore Plus/4 behind and take a look at the most…
You may remember Monty’s Honey Run, Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls and Ooze. All these games are by Andy Johns, and all were very well-received by the Spectrum Community. Andy Johns is back with some fantastic News about an Arcade Game Designer title he is working on, in fact, it’s not too far away from a release! The…
Another ZX Spectrum game has been recovered by Planet Sinclair website, this one is called “Skeet Shooting”, which is an adaptation of Tire al Plato by P.F.P. Chaves (1985), and was featured in VideoSpectrum Issue 13. Download: Tiro aos pratos.SNA Website: Planeta Sinclair
Regular readers to this site will know that I recently reviewed the conversion of Street Fighter II for the Commodore and found it, shall we say, somewhat lacking. Amiga owners desperate for a decent slice of beat ’em up action were going to need to look elsewhere. Fortunately, that didn’t turn out to be too far, as it happens. Team 17,…
Released in 1985 by Datasoft, Zorro is an arcade platform game based on Johnston McCulley’s masked vigilante, released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad range of 8-bit computers. It’s another game that I remember playing as a child, but was never able to actually finish for one reason or another. All is not well in the pueblo…
This new Chris Hülsbeck tribute album released by “German Remix Group” contains a total of 19 songs, and is completely free to download. The track list includes some really great remixes of well known games such as Turrican, Turrican 2 and The Great Giana Sisters! Go grab it now! ;-) CD1 Turrican 2 ⋅ The Final Challenge (Dr.Future Remix) Jim…
