Category: Games Consoles

Retro gaming homebrew development contests roundup – what is still going on in 2020

My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…

New Homebrew Commodore Amiga Renditions to Classic Arcade Games

It is not a new thing to create new games based on classic arcade. Just look around on the Internet, and you will see the hundreds of Space Invaders, Pac-Man’s, Centipedes, and so on. Creating clones of these games is one of the best ways to get started in game development, for example, since the gameplay is usually well-defined and…

Several new unboxing and review videos from Merman for Scene World on youtube

The following unboxings and reviews have been uploaded to youtube now: Evercade: SID Chip Club: SNES Mini unboxing:

Community Showcase: GreenBoy Games and the passion for the 4-shades-of-green handheld

Greenboy Games is a one-man studio that has only one objective: make games for the classic Nintendo Gameboy. Behind that studio is Dan Puch, a hobbyist game developer that is passionate about the 4-shades-of-green little screen handheld. While my first idea was to write about his work, last week we talked and later he sent me via email some answers…

Attention (Retro) Nintendo Developers: NESMaker Byte-Off 2020 compo has been announced!

The New 8-bit Heroes, creators of NESMaker have announced the 2020 edition of the Byte-Off game development competition. NESMaker is an Integrated Environment for PC that allows you to create NES games even with no programming experience. For more advanced users, the tool still saves development time while being flexible enough to allow machine language code to be added to…

Noobs Review 11 :- Super Mario Land (Game Boy 1990)

Super Mario Land is Mario`s 1st outing on the Game-Boy, how does it stack up 30 years after its release?

Noobs Review 8 :- Micro Machines (Megadrive 1993)

Micro Machines for the Mega Drive hit the stores in 1993, does it still hold up today? Lets find out

Noobs Review 6 :- Super Star Wars (Super Nintendo 1993)

Super Star Wars was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993, and was known as being a hard game, does it still hold up almost 30 years later?

Noobs Review 5 :- Moonwalker (Megadrive 1991)

SHAMMMMOONNEEEE…… excuse me….Did you ever wonder what it would be like playing as an 80`s icon in a fantasy setting…well now you can…