Category: Homebrew Games News

Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Beer Edition Now Available to Download on Vitno!

We have been covering Graeme Cowie’s Amiga remake of Bomb Jack since the very first beta version, keeping you all in the loop with regular updates. Graeme contacted me through Facebook a couple of days ago to let me know that the final version is now available! You can download the game from our Homebrew Database (under the website banner)…

Buzzsaw Now Available to Purchase on Cassette for ZX Spectrum

Buzzsaw is a game by Jason J. Railton, that was originally released way back in 2011 as Buzzsaw+ (Foxton Locks Mix). Cronosoft have now made the game available to purchase on cassette for the tidy sum of five pounds. Buzzsaw is a puzzle game with traits from Tetris, but with some subtle differences to make the game a little more…

Hibernated 1, New Text Adventure for C64 and ZX Spectrum

Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…

Remember the RetroN 77? It is alive and well and the developer has more news!

Announced last June at 2017 E3, the RetroN 77 brought some excitement but also took some flak from the ever-picky retro community when dealing with new hardware about old hardware :) Hyper developers have released an extensive letter with new and exciting updates. Shared by Scott Dayton over the Atari 2600 Homebrew Facebook group, the update signed by Dr. Andrew Steel, started…

Bad Ninjas vs Rick & Joe, Amiga Demo Version Now Available

Ricky Place has released an early demo of Bad Ninjas Vs Rick & Joe, a new game he is currently developing for classic Amiga computers. Despite being in the early stages of development, the demo appears to be shaping up nicely, taking inspiration from classic arcade side-scrollers that require the player to knock the stuffing out of various bad guys and…

ViTNO Homebrew Update #6, 50 New Homebrew Games to Download!

Here we are again with yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section! Update #6 contains another 50 new Homebrew titles. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the “Homebrew Database” underneath the site banner. Don’t forget to take a look at the list below to see the new entries added. Also, if…

Speedball 2 Ultimate coming for C64, Testers Needed

It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…

Plunder ancient tombs for treasure in ROVR, a new game for the ZX Spectrum!

Retro gamers looking for a new title to add to their collection should be sure to check out ROVR, developed by Paul Jenkinson and generously released for free to the Spectrum community. An acronym for “Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery”, the game is a top-down exploration or ‘maze’ game where players must guide a tiny recovery vehicle through the bowels of…

Bomb Jack Beer Edition For Amiga, Beta 7a Released, Final Coming Soon!

Beta 7a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released. For more information about the game, be sure to read though our previous posts, and also the EAB thread link below. The final version will be released in the upcoming weeks, and will be available to download from the ViTNO Homebrew Database. ;-) Changes/Additions…

ZX Spectrum Next case mould being produced (photos to prove!)

I was a happy guy when I saw the newest Kickstarter update from Henrique Olifiers, which I summarize here in this quick post. The case mould is being produced and it is almost ready to be used to inject the first ZX Spectrum Next cases, starting with a prototype to validate the mould. It looks like a very complicated and detailed…