Category: Freeware

Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario, New ZX Spectrum Game from Steve Trower

Steve Trower has released a new maze/puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum titled “Stela II – The Secrets of Doctor Malfario”. Testing his new machine, “Stela”, the Doctor Malfario, in a strange time travel has been lost in parallel worlds. Your mission is to guide Doctor Malfario in his small spacecraft “Stela” back to his mansion through 5 different worlds,…

The Unofficial Zombo’s Christmas Capers, ZX Spectrum

He’s back, and this time it’s Christmas! Zombo returns in this brand new completely unofficial game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum! Now featuring 76% less game-breaking bugs than the first game in the series! Story Centuries of overwork and stress have finally taken their toll – Santa has suffered a psychotic break and gone missing from his workshop in North…

Merry Christmas From Horace, New ZX Spectrum Christmas Game from Steve Broad!

The Horace video game series was created in the 1980s by William Tang for Beam Software. The series comprised Hungry Horace, Horace Goes Skiing and Horace and the Spiders. Hungry Horace and Horace and the Spiders were two of the few ZX Spectrum games also available in ROM format for use with the Interface 2. The original Horace game, Hungry…

Unofficial CD32/CDTV/Amiga Release – More! Lemmings

Lemmings is a puzzle-platformer video game originally developed by DMA Design and first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. The game was programmed by Mike Dailly and David Jones, and was inspired by a simple animation that Dailly created while experimenting with Deluxe Paint. The objective of the game is to guide a group…

‘At Arion Line’ – Game for Atari 8-bit available for download

The YouTube channel Zzielins has published a video about the game”At Arion Line – Mission Zero”, a shooter that snatched the second place in a competition held at the Silly Venture 2016 retro festival. There is also a download link so you can try the game. [youtube 3Mu1deX0d8s nolink] It is version 2.7 of the game presented by Tomasz “TDC” Cieslewicz…

AtariCrypt Magazine, a new digital publication for the Atari ST is available now

Atari Crypt is a website dedicated to the Atari ST computers, and today Steve Gregory has announced the availability of the first issue of the AtariCrypt magazine. “Today, I am extremely proud to announce the availability of AtariCrypt Magazine. That’s right folks, a brand new magazine STuffed to the brim full of 16-bit gaming goodness. It has been designed by none…

Thursday Retro Gaming News Updates

Now we are finally up and running with the new look website, our next plan is migrating some pages from CiA. Fred Fish disks, 17Bit Software Public Domain, Box Art, Articles and Reviews. Currently the games pages are up on the site but they still need some work, mostly screenshots and adding new games. Keep an eye on the site…

Fill Your Friday Night With Some Fantastic New Retro Game Updates!

You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…

Two Alpha Demos Released for EgoWings, A New Upcoming Amiga Shoot’em up!

For some time now Javier Alcañiz and Carlos del Álamo have been working together on a new Amiga Shoot’ em up called EgoWings. If you’re a big fan of shmups, then you are gonna love this one with it’s super smooth gameplay, beautiful soundtrack and graphics similar to the 1989 Amiga classic Battle Squadron. There is no set release date…

Willy’s New Mansion Special Edition, Twelfth Anniversary Release

Willy’s New Mansion is a redesign of Matthew Smith’s classic game Jet Set Willy created using the Jet Set Willy Editor v. 2.03 by John Elliott. The game can be played on any ZX Spectrum emulator or real hardware. The game is available in .sna and .tap formats. Twenty years have passed since Willy stepped into his mansion and realized…