Category: Free Games
Unsurprisingly, the retro community is always presented with Halloween-themed games on October 31st. The one we picked to highlight here is Unhallowed, a traditional text adventure game that runs on any ZX Spectrum with 128K. (Blerkotron, the developer, was also kind enough to provide a special version that runs directly on any modern browser). The game page sets the mood:…
The Facebook group Homebrew Gaming News is one of the best places to know first hand what is happening in the homebrew community, including, of course, new games announcements, like the brand new Shadow Switcher. Christian Gleinser’s game features a Lode Runner-inspired gameplay where the hero has to run through the platforms collecting rings to find his way out while…
Back in May we shared some News about a new work in progress Amiga game called “Bad Ninjas vs Rick & Joe, a game created using the RedPill game creator engine. You can read more about the game here and here. Good News today as Vicente Jose Gimeno announced on Twitter that the game has finally been released! Lanzamos nuestro…
Sebastian Braunert’s new Amstrad platformer has been released. First announced on Facebook November 2017, Pink Pills is a charming platformer featuring a very cute looking dog called Moritz. The game features some well known tunes from the 80’s and also a fantastic rendition of the Beatles “Yellow Submarine”. Here, in his own words, Sebastian describes an overview of the game:…
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…
Originally a Commodore 64 game by Pond Software, Spaceman Splorf was recently ported to the Pico-8 platform. If you are one of the unlucky ones that have yet to sample the delights of Spaceman Splorf, then you are in for a real treat. We covered the C64 version way back in 2016, which you can read about here. Today though,…
Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News not long ago, about a colour remake of 3D Monster Maze. For those of you that are not familiar, the game was released way back in 1982, developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 with 16 KB of memory expansion. 3D Monster Maze puts the player…
Something for later in the year ALL HALLOWS – Rise of the Pumpkin. Utilizing Andy Johns code. A barmy bouncing platformer will emerge.. You play the Pumpkin and you have noticed the dark tower as awoken! It can mean only one thing. The Dark Forest Lord is preparing to break free from his 1000 years of imprisonment! You must reactivate…
It’s been a while since we posted an update regarding the homebrew gaming database, but we’ve been working as hard as ever in curating the very best freeware titles from around the web. With 100 new titles added, update 7 is by far the largest we’ve published since the section went live earlier this year and we have no intention…
