Category: Games Consoles

Atari software package from ‘Silly Venture 2k18’ available for download

Peter “JAC!” Dell has compiled a download package containing all programs and games presented during the Silly Venture 2k18, the 10th edition of the biggest retro scene gathering in Europe that happened last 2-4 November, in Poland. The convenient package contains four games, thirteen intros, fifteen graphics, six demos, five POKEY music files and another fifteen “bonus” files. It is…

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…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 67: Qwak

AMIGArama goes on a arcade hunt for a Bubble Bobble beater but can Qwak finally be the game to put that quest to an end? Lorfarius sets out on his weekly Amiga gaming trip to find out! https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-67-qwak/

Stella – The ubiquitous Atari 2600 emulator gets a major update

If you just arrived from Mars where you lived for the past 40 years, Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. As an open source project, the emulator can be also ported to many other platforms. The new version 6.0 brings dozens of fixes and new features, mostly targeting the use of new underlying…

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…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 61: RoboCod

In this years special Christmas episode, AMIGArama and Robocod set out to save Santa. But can they stop the evil Dr. Maybe from stealing all the presents and a few Penguins along the way?

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 59: Superfrog

Has the Amiga finally found it’s Mario beater? Only AMIGArama can find out as we team up with Team17 to break Superfrogs curse and rescue a princess along the way! https://amigarama.com/episodes/amigarama-podcast-episode-59-superfrog/

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…

Intellivision unveils Amico gaming console

A few months back it was revealed that Intellivision, a major influence in the video games boom of the early 1980s, was planning to release a new video game console, and the company has now unveiled it’s concept for the “Amico”, a system set to focus on family-friendly entertainment. Much like the original Intellivision unit, the Amico design features a…

NES game ‘Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure’ Kickstarter campaign is on and surpasses its goal in less than 2 days

With a demo released back in April, the NES game Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure started its Kickstarter campaign less than a week ago and already reached and exceeded its goal. Since the Eskimo Bob sequel is already done and playable, the campaign aims to fund the production of the cartridges and the companion swag (boxes, manuals, etc.). Tomas Guinan is already…