Category: Arcade News
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
We reported back in February about the demo version (shown exclusively at the Retro Computer Museum event 2015) of Dragons Lair for the humble ZX81 computer. We found some more information over at sellmyretro.com about the final release which is the full game and fully playable!, and they said it wasn’t possible! The game is available for just £10 and…
[youtube r1LU0NGCVHQ nolink] Power Drive 2000 is an arcade racer set in the year 2000…the future! Get behind the wheel of a technologically advanced sports car and tear it up as you battle to become A-number-1! The game features many unique game modes set in a 1980’s cinematic sci-fi world and boasts a totally radical Synthwave soundtrack! Also…the car talks!…
[youtube D7wQoaUjdug nolink] Classic arcade space shoot’em up meets colour match puzzle! Hop into your awesome spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles! StoryIt is the year 2985, ages after the space revolution. Human colonies have reached the most remote places and discovered the enormous power of Green Emeralds as…
The UK’s favourite Arcade, Indie & Retro video gaming expo comes to the Winter Gardens, Margate from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2015. Fans of gaming are in for a real treat! PLAY is brought to you by the organisers of Play Expo and video gaming suppliers to GEEK, so will be jam packed with hundreds of games, consoles, arcades,…
News Updates from Vintage is the New Old.Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has sent over his latest batch of Arcade reviews for Vitno. Some classics there for you all to enjoy! You can read the reviews below on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Rob and Stuart Johns. Operation wolf Buggy Boy The Newzealand…
[youtube KhExOQMMwfc nolink] Two ships battle an endless war in space and time!Redshift Blueshift is a vicious hyper-paced tournament-style pong-like 2D shooter in which two pilots fight for glory in their variable paddle ships! Power up your shields, unleash a horde of drones and homing missiles on your opponent and keep the hyper-ball in play! Play with two players, single…
[youtube blE43U3PTGQ#t=43 nolink] NewRetroArcade is a tech demo built for virtual reality specifically Oculus VR®Within this Arcade you can experience, play and enjoy your own personal little slice of 80’s retro life. The Arcade is built using Unreal© Engine 4 as a learning experience for this powerful game engine. Although it’s built for VR, non VR enthusiasts may also play…
[youtube LM1moJfGYJk nolink] When aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults. President Will Cooper (Kevin James) has to call on his childhood best friend, ’80s video game champion Sam Brenner (Sandler), now a home theatre installer, to lead a team…
[youtube sdKrnmyQREQ nolink] It is happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since last January the exhibit ‘Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games’, an interactive exhibition that explores more than 40 years of video games through a dynamic visual tour of consoles and games that marked an era. The exhibition can be visited for free between 14:00 to 20:30 from…
