Category: Homebrew Games News
Jonas Hultén made it possible to see one of my favourite Atari 2600 games on the VIC-20. In case you have been trapped in a mine all this time, in H.E.R.O., your mission is to rescue trapped miners from underground caves. There are 20 levels to play, and you will be considered a professional hero after these 20 levels. For…
Carleton Handley has announced that all his games, including the modern blockbusters Millie and Molly and Runn ‘n’ Gunn are now available as a free download over his itch.io page. These games were a huge success when released, but if you haven’t played them yet, here is your chance! Carleton is a Commodore 64 seasoned game developer who started his…
How about a relaxing game where your objective is only to take care of and develop your farm? I know there are plenty of these games for modern platforms and mobile phones, but maybe you want to try it using your ol’ pal Amiga! Farmiga has been in development for a while by the Polish developer Tukinem using AMOS, and…
Cacorm is one of those games that surprises me in a good way. At a glance, it seems like “one more of those” types of games, but when you start playing it, you see how clever and enjoyable it is! The gameplay is very simple. You control your hero around the screen and your objective is to retrieve the stars…
Bitnamic, through its European branch, Teknamic, is releasing three new games for the ZX Spectrum in the very last day of the year. The first one is a relaunch. Published as a “Cover Tape” in issue 88 of the Crash magazine, “Countdown to the Death” is the result of the efforts of two young Brazilians: Mario de Paula Leite Gouvea,…
Yandex Retro Games Battle is a game development contest, organized by the Yandex Museum that brought to life amazing games for the ZX Spectrum, like Marsmare: Alienation and White Jaguar. If released in the 80s, these games would have made the developers rich folks and the blockbusters of the time look not so incredible as our memory tells us! This…
As you all know, I am pretty much retired from Vintage is the New Old these days, however I couldn’t resist logging in today to share some interesting News. Found by pure accident while browsing the Bomb Jack DX thread on Forum64. It seems that an Atari XL/XE version of Bomb Jack was entered into the ABBUC 2021 Competition and…
Retrocomputaria (http://www.retrocomputaria.com.br) is a Brazilian podcast and website which has been around since 2010, talking about retrocomputing way before retro was mainstream! They launched their second crowdfunding campaign, aiming to fund the production of a classic deck of cards with classic video games as a theme. The 52 card’s illustrations pay homage to 16 video games, all of them sold…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03, 04. The story so far: graphic performance is great! We have a notion of memory consumption and the base game idea direction, meaning, we have a designed player moving about. How does one start a game development? In my case and in general, by doing sketches, then mock ups for the target system, then I code the basic…
Double Sided Games has added two great games to their catalogue: Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 and Vegetables Deluxe for the ZX Spectrum. Don’t Break The Balls for the Commodore 64 DBTB is an action/puzzle game for 1 or 2 players in co-operation or duel for the Commodore 64. Controlling a fan, you need to blow the…
