Category: Games Consoles
Mr SQL user from Atariage forum has released a Defender-style game for the Atari 2600 where you have to protect the cities of Mars from comets and meteors. On this game, you have to destroy the comets and meteors before they level the city to progress to the next level. The game ends when your ship is hit without shields…
Yes, the game features a suicidal mob of cute creatures is already 25 years old! Lemmings was first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. It was also ported for more than 20 different platforms, including NES, C64, Amstrad and Playstation. On this puzzle game, you control the lemmings trying to guide then to the…
‘Lobo’ is a fighter game settled up in the DC Comics’ LOBO universe (never)published by Ocean that never saw the light of the day. Developed for Super Nintendo and Megadrive, the game was supposed to be released in 1996 but it was cancelled right before launch. According to the discussion thread on AssemblerGames forum, the game has been unofficially sold in…
Battle City is a multi-directional shooter video game originally developed for the Family Computer produced and published in 1985 by Namco. There is also versions for the NES, Gameboy and many other platforms…but not for the ZX Spectrum. The active Speccy community didn’t sweat because of that and many clones were made throughout the years. Since there is never enough…
Bitmap Books has certainly found its niche and a lot of success there, not without deserving it. The publisher has been releasing many fantastic books about retro gaming like Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. Now they just released a new book called Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection, which shows, as the name suggest, the box art of almost 250 classic Super…
Rainbow Walker was published by Synapse Software in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit. Developed by Steve Coleman, it is an arcade game where you control Cedrick, a small creature that has the power to add colours back to the rainbow after a villain had stolen all the colors leaving the rainbow gray and dull. The AtariAge forum user Wrathchild managed to make the conversion…
Ok, this is another Kickstarted campaign, but we have to admit and understand that Retro-gaming in general is not very profitable and these awesome developers out there need some help! This time we are talking about a campaign that will interest mostly the Colecovision fans: Super Arcade Controllers and Adapters for Colecovision! The nice thing about the project is that the…
Back in 2013 a Kickstarter campaign was launched with the objective to create a new game for Sega Dreamcast and Amiga. The campaign failed but the developers behind the project didn’t give up and they finally launched their product, at least the version for the Sega Dreamcast. From the Kickstarter page, we get the game’s description: Leona’s Tricky Adventures is…
The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher, has been converting old blog posts to eBook format, making it easier to everyone to have a pleasant off-line reading session about the history of video game and computer entertainment as a whole. Jimmy Maher is well-known for many projects, including The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. He has The Digital Antiquarian blog where he keeps…
There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…
