Category: Games Consoles
PC Engine fans rejoice! Yes, as you have read from the title, the PC Engine is returning! For those of you who are not familiar, the PC Engine (also known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the USA) was a home video console by NEC Home Electronics and was first released in Japan in 1987. 10 million units were sold worldwide. Despite…
The Grandfather of games is certainty iconic, ingrained in popular culture and inspiring a slew of paddle clones and iterations based on a basic yet enjoyable mechanic. Now in 2019, the team comprised of Cobe, Goatmare and Koyot1222 bring their take on the formula, Pong 4K, a third placed entry in the 2018 RetroKomp, to the Amiga CD32. Booting this…
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…
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…
Atari Projects is a cool website offering suggestions for projects you can do with your Atari computer or game console, including the time you would take to complete the task. Their latest article is particularly interesting for me, who loves a vintage reading material (I am currently reading ANALOG, for example). The article presents a series of links to selected…
Amiga owners didn’t have too much to shout out about when it came to beat-em-ups, and the less said about the Street Fighter II port the better. A few contenders had made a case for themselves, such as Team17’s Body Blows and TerraMarque’s Elfmania, but in 1994 a new challenger arrived from developer NAPS Team and publisher Gremlin Interactive. Emerging…
How many of you still own the original Game Boy from 1989? I bet there’s a good few people that still own this iconic little hand-held from Nintendo, designed by the same team that developed the Game & Watch. The Nintendo Game Boy was a huge success back in the late 80’s with it’s basic beige design and it’s somewhat…
On this last weekend, I was at VCF East for the first time and the whole experience was a blast. I plan to talk more about on a specific article but while that doesn’t happen, I am happy to say that one of the main presentations of the show is already online: Joe Decuir’s keynote. Joe Decuir is a key…
Derbyshire’s Core Design would bring their final Amiga game to the A1200, and CD32, before moving onto newer platforms in 1995 with the isometric shoot ‘em up, Skeleton Krew. With its 2000AD style artwork and off the back of quality releases such as Universe and Heimdall 2, hopes were high for the game engineered exclusively for AGA chipsets. Delving into the…
I want you to close your eyes and think of 3 words, Amiga, Music & Racing games. Sounds sweet isn’t? That’s what I thought too. I wanted to do this music compilation album for some time now but life was always in the middle. Finally I found the time and I am presenting you the “Amiga Mixed Music Compilation –…
