Category: Homebrew Games News
One day I was browsing the Atariage forum and saw some incredible screenshots of a game being developed for the Atari 2600. After reading through the thread, I learned that the game is Mappy, an arcade game released by Namco in 1983. To be completely honest, although I might have seen the characters around, I didn’t know the game, but…
Planeta Sinclair, a great Portuguese-speaking website about the ZX Spectrum, has just announced the winners of its poll trying to find the best ZX-Dev Conversion. Two highly acclaimed conversions that we have already covered, Mighty Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors have nabbed the first and second place, respectively. There were a total of 173 votes, and Mighty Final Fight took…
LoadError has recently released a new Vic-20 game called Pyrotech. The game was originally written in basic and then compiled to pseudo-code. In the game you command of a team of Pyrotechs on a mission to collect and defuse a batch of time bombs before they explode. LoadError’s description of the game made me smile. “It’s a gobble gobble, don’t…
Planeta Sinclair recently shared some interesting News about a remake of an old game by Marco Carrasco and Rui Tito. The game is called Aquatic Invaders and was recovered last year by Sinclair Planet. The original BASIC code has been re-written for the compiler Boriel’s ZX Basic, resulting in a much faster game. You can read more information about the…
Alessandro Grussu has recently released a new ZX Spectrum Compilation, which contains his first two games, Lost In My Spectrum and Apulija-13. The compilation is a disk-only release and has been devised for use with ZX Spectrum 48K/128K systems equipped with Beta Disk or similar interfaces, or MGT Plus D, or memory card based interfaces such as the DivIDE or…
Castle of Sorrow is a new Spanish platform adventure game by ZXMan48k. This is his first game and was created using the Arcade Game Designer engine. The story is short and simple: “Help our hero Constantin to avenge the death of his beloved, go into the castle and discover the mystery that lies within it.” Your adventure begins within an intricate…
Bubsy (Kitt’N Kaboodle) is a new Vic-20 hack of Fast Eddie (Sirius Software,1982). The hack was made possible using Hack-O-Matic 3, which is a hack tool intended for the Atari 2600. After reading a comment from Vic 20 Gamer, DoctorClu decided this was enough reason to get something coded up for people to try out. I played Fast Eddie on…
Over on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook group today, Simon Butler recently shared a teaser image of what Exolon could look like on the ZX Spectrum Next. This beautiful work of art is by Andy Little (Andrey Kovalchuk) from Russia, and is another small example of what could be possible using the raw power of the Next. While this is…
MonkeyMcGee is a new work in progress game by John McManus (Code), Simon Butler and Paul Sidman Hesso for the ZX Spectrum Next. Simon is handling the graphics and so far, it’s looking fantastic! Beautiful bright vibrant colours, clearly showing the “Next” step in ZX Spectrum gaming. Little MonkeyMcGee is pixel perfect, along with some interesting looking enemies, electricity and various other…
Anyone with at least one foot in the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) world these days will have already been hearing about something called the Game Master Cartridge (GMC). What is this device? Another whiz-bang flash-in-the-pan hardware announcement with little real utility? Or is this a good and useful product that everyone should acquire for their CoCo collection? Well, as the…
