Category: Games Consoles
The 2016 BASIC 10-liners contest is a staggering success with 89 games in 4 categories. The number of entries and the quality of the programs shows that BASIC is still a viable language for many usages, and fun to program. Your very own Vintage is The New Old had an entry called “Typing Hero” for the MSX, and it did…
Due to massive delays and the new issue of Scene World Magazine being out very soon, we couldn’t pack the transcription in , but decided to release our interview with former Commodore UK employee David John Pleasance nevertheless! David Pleasance is a former employee of Commodore UK who had too many titles and his career at Commodore to list them…
Coleco Chameleon seemed to be destined for success, at least based only on its appearance at Toy Fair. Well, the cartridge-based retro console is no more. First there were accusations of the use of a false prototype. Users from Atariage were able to spot, from inside a translucent case, a Hicap50B CCTV DVR capture card pretending to be the console…
Last year, one of the biggest news around retro gaming was the discovery of the “Nintendo PlayStation”, which was a prototype of a partnership between Nintendo and Sony (duh!) to give SNES capabilities to use cartridges and also CD for games. RetroCollect reports that there is a file named SDBR_v0.95.sfc that seems to be legit, but they are still investigating…
Nightmare Busters is a new run & gun game developed through the partnership of Super Fighter Team and the game’s developers, Christophe Gayraud and Jean-Christophe Alessandri. “Synchronized with the wavelength of dreams, the miserable Tyrant has discovered a way to enter them and convolute what children see, hear and feel while they sleep — all for the benefit of…
Stack Overflow is a site for question and answers widely used by the software development community. It is valuable because all issues and answers can receive up/down votes, and they stay forever, accessible at any time. This is the second attempt to create a Stack Exchange site exclusive for vintage computer hobbyists interested in restoring, preserving, and using the classic computer and…
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…
