Category: Homebrew Games News
We covered the original release of Keith Sear’s hectic retro shooter for the Amstrad CPC back in December 2016, but our friends over at Planet Sinclair spotted that a conversion for the ZX Spectrum now appears to be in works. A new announcement on the game’s official website confirms this fact, promising to deliver an updated version of the game…
Today, we’re pleased to announce yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section. With 40 new entries, update 5 has proven to be the biggest yet, and is packed full of exciting titles for you to enjoy. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the ‘Homebrew Database’ underneath the site banner. Don’t forget…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
The good ol’ Atari 2600 is getting too much love lately! Michael Salzman, a prolific author of many books about games for the Atari 2600, has just announced his new endeavour, a monthly printed fanzine dedicated to the Atari 2600: The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throwback Zine! In the interest of trying new things I am proud to announce my new Atari…
We received a quick update from Brian Matherne, author of the upcoming book about homebrew games for the 2600 saying that the book was already submitted to Amazon for review and it will be available at any time now. As we reported earlier this month, the book will feature 180 pages covering 34 homebrew games, including images, reviews, “making of”, and more!…
Fans of Amstrad’s GX4000 console might be excited to learn that a new, high-quality conversion of Capcom’s seminal coin-op, Ghosts’n Goblins, has been released for free over on cpcwiki.eu by the game’s developer! Those of us who grew up during the 1980’s will remember just how poorly so many arcade conversions for our humble 8-bit micros turned out to be, so…
Latest downloads over at The New Dimension are as follows: Valkyrie 3 – The Night Witch by Eleanor Burns Arhena the Amazon – Special Edition T.N.D C64Mini Collection Pack Website: tnd64.unikat.sk
Amiga gamers who have been following the progress of the new title from Eleventh Hour Games might be excited to learn that a new gameplay teaser video has been uploaded to YouTube by the project’s principle artist, Wayne Ashworth. The clip demonstrates the general pace, core mechanics and some of the features that you can expect to find in the…
