Category: Games Consoles

New fanzine dedicated to the Atari 2600 to be launched in May!

The good ol’ Atari 2600 is getting too much love lately! Michael Salzman, a prolific author of many books about games for the Atari 2600, has just announced his new endeavour, a monthly printed fanzine dedicated to the Atari 2600: The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throwback Zine! In the interest of trying new things I am proud to announce my new Atari…

Launch of the book ‘The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion Volume 1’ is imminent!

We received a quick update from Brian Matherne, author of the upcoming book about homebrew games for the 2600 saying that the book was already submitted to Amazon for review and it will be available at any time now. As we reported earlier this month, the book will feature 180 pages covering 34 homebrew games, including images, reviews, “making of”, and more!…

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Crypt of Dracula Preview

MatteusBeus, a homebrew developer for the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis, has released a video showcasing his early progress on his development project for the platform titled Crypt of Dracula. Crypt of Dracula looks to be a dungeon explorer game with some detailed graphics and atmospheric music. The video preview goes through to show some great introduction scenes and…

Sega unveils prototype “Mega Drive Mini” to celebrate console’s 30th anniversary!

In a surprise announcement on it’s official Twitter account, Sega has unveiled an early prototype of a new, miniaturised edition of it’s classic Mega Drive console to coincide with the classic console’s 30th anniversary. Currently assigned the working title of “MegaDrive Mini”, full details are only just beginning to emerge across the web regarding the micro-console revealed live on stage…

Atari 2600 Homebrew Games Getting A New Compendium Soon!

If you are slightly tuned to the Atari homebrew scene, you know it is alive, well and stronger than ever. Many great games have been created in the past years, including many of them being released as physical cartridges. Although most of the information about them comes from AtariAge forums, it is not easy to keep track of everything that…

Limited Edition SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Coming to Nintendo Switch

SNK has announced that they are now taking pre-orders for the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection to be released on the Nintendo Switch in Q4 2018. The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will contain a number of games from SNK’s pre-Neo Geo era with the following games confirmed to be included as part of this collection: Alpha Mission (console/arcade) Athena (console/arcade) Crystalis…

Alfonzo Arctic Adventure, New Eskimo Bob Sequel Demo Released! (NES)

Alfonzo Arctic Adventure is an upcoming NES sequel to Eskimo Bob. Eskimo Bob was a Kickstarter project than ran last year, smashing it’s goal (CA$ 22,140 pledged of CA$ 7,000 goal). The game is based on the Eskimo Bob flash cartoons and features 64 levels, 15 enemy types, two playable characters, two support characters, and a fully functional password system….

Sheep It Up! Free to Download, Play Online Or Buy The Game Boy Cart!

Sheep It Up is a puzzle game playable on any model of Game Boy (including Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player). The aim of the game is to climb upwards by jumping and hanging your sheep to flying velcro straps. The concept is simple, but the game rapidly becomes quite challenging. How high can you climb without falling down?…

Road Avenger LaserDisc Amiga Port Released by ReImagine Games!

The laser disc version of Road Avenger/Road Blaster was released in 1985 by Data East and Toei Animation. Most of us remember the more common Sega CD port by developer Wolf Team, released in 1992, also known as Road Blaster FX in Japan. It was also brought to the LaserActive and released under the Sega Mega LD format, this time…

Heroes of Gorluth, New Amiga Teaser Video

A new teaser video of the eagerly anticipated “Heroes of Gorluth” has been shared by Viddi over on the EAB forums. Heroes of Gorluth is a game by AmiWorx, the same people who made Tales of Gorluth and Tales of Gorluth II. Unlike the previous games, the team have decided to move away from Action and Adventure and over to…