Category: Homebrew Games News
After a long time without new issues, Pro(c) Atari magazine is back. To make up for the time lost, the magazine now has a new format and more pages. The issue #13 brings 104 pages full of Atari goodness, including: Perplexity Sikor’s Atari-Party Achilles DungeonLord Spelunker Rain Of Terror Spare Change Boulderdash – Turn your sceens into a game Diamondz 2…
For all of us that have overlapping interest in game design and retro gaming, the GDC 2018 will hold an interesting presentation: Classic Game Postmortem: ‘The Bard’s Tale I and II’. Michael Cranford, the designer of the iconic RPG series first launched in 1985 will be the speaker. This session will explore the conception and development of Interplay’s ‘The Bard’s Tale…
Dracula’s Castle is a new platform game for the Commodore 64. Released by MP Software, the game is based/ported on an old BASIC game, released in 1985. Although the graphics are mostly the same, the MP Software’s version is coded in assembler. The premise is simple: the hero has to collect the crucifixes and the key in order to open…
As the ZX Spectrum Next boards leave the assembly line and head to the hands of the backers that opted for the board-only, Carlos Henrique Olifiers thought it would be very important to have a guide ready before the users receive their units. The ZX Spectrum Next board 2A is the first public version of the platform. It’s a bare…
Glen Hewlett has published throughout the month of November five articles explaining how to setup and use interrupts on the TRS-80 Color Computer. He starts his blog talking about his motivation and objectives: Recently I was working on my MIDI to CoCo converter program and I wanted to output the data with an option that would include the player that…
A new text adventure game has been released for the TRS-80 Color Computer: Forest of Doom, a Fantasy Role Playing Game. Only the bravest souls enter, only the most cunning return! Defeat innumerable monsters to ransom the king’s scepter, stolen by the evil wizard and kept deep in the Forest of Doom. Your sword, shield and wits are your only…
Mega Cat Studios has released three new games for the NES: Creepy Brawlers, Creeping it Reel, and Justice Duel. In Creepy Brawlers is, in Mega Cat own words, a horror-boxing game where you have to fight several “movie monsters” who have different abilities. If you manage to perfectly timed counter-attacks will be able to stun the monsters and get closer to the…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
RETRO magazine (not the British Retro Gamer one!) issue #13 is out, conveniently on October 31st! While normally one issue costs US$2.99, this issue is free if you use the code R137BX2NYFTT during checkout, which is a nice gift and good way to let the word out about the magazine. If you are interested in a Physical format for this issue,…
Aetherbyte Studios has just released a free game to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of NEC’s PC Engine console (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the US). Nantettatte Engine is a ‘Score Attack’ shoot ’em up, modelled on the classic Astrosmash and is available for download as a free ROM. You can download the game here. Source: Aetherbyte.
