Category: Homebrew Games News
Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64 brings back many wonderful memories to long time gamers who often cite the its atmosphere, graphical look and action as a perfect blend to provide a spine chilling and engrossing experience. The game saw you play as an archer, armed with a bow and limited number of arrows, moving through a dangerous forest battling…
PacManPlus over on Atari Age Forums started a thread back in April about a WIP version of Baby Pac-Man for the Atari 7800. For those of you that are not aware, Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid Arcade/Pinball game released by Bally Midway in 1982 and 7,000 units were produced. It will be very interesting to see how this port pans…
It was announced the 2018 edition of GBJAM, a game development competition where the participants will have to create a complete video game that keeps Gameboy’s characteristics – notably the use of 4 colours only on a screen with the resolution of 160×144 pixels. It is not a retro gaming-only competition since the rules allow the use of any modern development…
We first reported on the ZX-Dev-MIA-Remakes competition back at the beginning of June, and things are certain starting to hot up as our friends at Planeta Sinclair have been keeping a watchful eye on the various entries submitted so far. The objective of the competition is for budding coders to remake a classic Spectrum game of their choice that was…
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
If you have been following our website since the days of Commodore is Awesome, you will know we regularly cover News from one of our favourite gaming websites, Protovision. A fantastic site where you can buy new games for the good old breadbin. Currently there are nine games in development for the Commodore 64, including the highly anticipated Briley Witch Chronicles…
Lasse over on Lemon64 Forums recently announced a new wip title for the Commodore 64. The game is called MW Ultra and is a reboot of Metal Warrior. There are four games in the Metal Warrior series, all of them a “semi-cinematic” style, with a blend of shooting, melee combat & stealth gameplay. A few words from Lasse.. Plans for…
Francisco Téllez de Meneses is currently working on Prisoner of War, a new game for the MSX series of computers. The game’s existence came to light at the beginning of June when Meneses posted a request for assistance in creating the game’s music over on the MSX.org forums. Having been captured and imprisoned in a high-security military facility, the player…
Popular indie games Indie games site Itch.io has just launched it’s week summer sale, offering over 600 titles with up to 75% off! Whether it be battling monsters for loot in Rogue Empire ($7.64), or turning enemy pilots to dust in Starblast ($4.99), there’s a huge range of titles to check out. Gamers looking to pick up a bargain and experience some of…
Sega mascot Alex Kidd looks set to return to the big-time with the development of a brand new remake of classic Master System game, Alex Kidd in Miracle World. No doubt inspired by the huge success of Lizardcube’s remake of Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, the new game looks set to take everything that was great about the original Alex Kidd…
