Category: NES

Malasombra – an epic action adventure game coming to NES

The 4MHz team are excited to announce that they have commenced development on Malasombra, an action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Set in legends and fairy tales, Malasombra is an ambitious project carefully designed to provide gamers with an epic adventure, featuring an exciting story where nothing is what it seems. The backstory to Malasombra sees you…

Berzek is now available for your trustworthy NES!

Parisoft has released a port of Berzek for the Nintendo Entertainment System and it is available for purchase on itch.io. Berzek is an arcade game released in 1980 by Stern and later ported to the Atari 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. It was one of the first games to dynamically generate mazes and have synthesized voices. I actually remember it was…

The Legend of Zelda, Trial of Courage, A Brand New Adventure for your NES!

The Legend of Zelda, Trial of Courage is an exciting new Zelda experience for the classic NES system. This brand new rom hack was created by The3Dude and took many months of hard work, editing and revising before an official release on June 1st 2019. Below is a list of things you can expect to see in this hack. Brand…

Micro Mages – New NES title delivers addictive platform gaming

Morphcat Games, who last year ran a successful crowd funding campaign to raise funds to produce the cartridge, box and manual for their new Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game – Micro Mages, has recently made the game available on a general retail basis. Micro Mages is an upward vertical scrolling platform game that sees you take on the role of…

RetroAcción announces Nintendo Game Boy game development contest 2019

RetroAcción, a Spanish non-profit association dedicated to retro computing studies, has announced a contest to celebrate the Nintendo Game Boy 30th anniversary. From the contest page: “The goal of this contest is to encourage the development of new titles and productions for the Game Boy, so the videogame can be of any genre and complexity and can be programmed in…

Diary of an NESmaker developer

1989 was a big year for me — Nintendo had taken North America by storm and just about everyone I knew had an NES console at home. It was the system that captured our imaginations — I was in grade 3 at the time, and we’d spend our recesses drawing elaborate NES levels (as seen in Nintendo Power), talking incessantly…

Play the new NES Homebrew game ‘Office Hero’ and win prizes!

As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…

NESmaker Game Design Competition

NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…

The WUDSN IDE version 1.7.0 has been released. New power for 6502-based development.

WUDSN IDE is a free integrated Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, C64 and NES development plugin for Eclipse and a new version has just been made available for the public. The version 1.7.0 brings the following changes: Daily build – Advanced users have now the option to install the daily build with the greatest and latest in…

Scene World Magazine Podcast Episode #55 – Databases with retroplace and Consolevariations.com!

How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…