Category: Homebrew Games News
Antonio Savona, the programmer behind the POSnake and the critically acclaimed hit from 2017 PlanetGolf, has just announced that is resuming development on a platform shooter game for the Commodore 64 titled Guy in a Vest. Savona teased the C64 community with glimpses of some impressive looking early graphics for the game produced by Saul Cross back in November 2017…
Back in February, we shared some News about a new platformer coming to the ZX Spectrum Next called Monkey McGee: Where are my Bananas? Fast forward to May and we can see that John, Simon (Miami Vice, Platoon, Target Renegade) and Paul have been hard at work getting the game together, showing off a brand new promo video! The first…
You may remember we mentioned Bubblesoft’s new upcoming ZX Spectrum game back in early March. Nixy the Glade sprite is a brand new AGD platformer, which we have been vigorously putting through it’s paces since the very first alpha version, weeding out the bugs, sharing ideas, and suggesting to Andy what could be improved to make the game the very…
The MSX enthusiasts will now be able to enjoy, using their favourite machine, ‘Fort Apocalypse’, a game initially released in 1982 for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64. It was announced by SoCal Studio that they are working on a port of the game for the MSX! No, this is not the 4th entry for the contest! To be more…
poly.play Software has announced that they have opened up pre-orders for their upcoming release of The Dawn of Kernel for the Amstrad CPC. The Dawn of Kernel, developed by usebox.net (primary coding duties performed by Juan J. Martinez), takes its inspiration from classic shooters such Cybernoid and is set to feature blasting action mixed with strong tactical and puzzle elements set in…
Virus LQP-79 brings a horde of zombies for the MSXDev’18 competition. The third entry is an enjoyable shoot’em up game where you play Amy, an average girl who found herself in a daring situation after an accident at a local research facility releases a deadly (almost?) virus that turns people in zombies. Her task is to find her way out of the…
Retro gamers will be pleased to learn that Jaime Grilo, stalwart member of the Spectrum homebrew development scene, returns with yet another exciting AGD title. In a change of pace from the arcade platform antics seen in the likes of Tea-Leaf Ted and previous releases, Quahappy is an arcade adventure game that puts players in control of Dauntless Andy, a soul both brave…
Yet more Atari news, this time focusing on Minotaur 16k, another up and coming release for 8-bit 600XL computer. Although there isn’t a huge amount of information on this title at present, Stargunner, the game’s developer, shared some information about the game on the AtariAge forum, stating that not only is it a work-in-progress, but what has been revealed thus…
Toot! Toot! Calling all budding train drivers, Black Castle Software has released a new puzzle game for the Commodore 64 set in a railway environment called Trolley Follies. The premise behind Trolley Follies is that you are a new conductor for the Trolley division of Convoluted Rail Road (CRR) Incorporated and your job is to operate one of their trolleys…
Our second Atari 8-bit release this week is Train, a new title developed and released by Czech software outfit BAHA Software Group, which in turn is a conversion of Vlak, a game released originally for MS-DOS PCs by Miroslav Němeček in 1993. Heavily influenced by the classic Snake arcade game, players are tasked with driving a small freight train around the screen,…
