Category: Homebrew Games News
I know many people don’t read as much anymore in this current digital age and the Short Attention Span problem the Internet brought us is likely one of the main culprits (get off my lawn, you hooligans!). However, we all love video games. If they are retro-games even more, maybe you would be interested in this bundle. StoryBundle, a Humble-bundle…
Always seen as the older poor cousin of the Commodore 64, the VIC-20 games are often underestimated by those that are not familiar with the machine. Back in the day, the VIC-20 had excellent games, and nowadays, a vibrant and active community keeps releasing high-quality homebrew for the machine. One of the most recent examples of that is Overthrown, a…
Badgerpunch Games has teamed up with a group of seasoned retro games develop and are offering a good deal with The C64 Xmas Bundle, consisting of nothing less than 15 games for your C64. This bundle combines holiday-themed games and other recent paid and free games. For anyone looking for a collection of lovingly crafted escapes into yesterday’s hardware, there…
After extending the deadline until November 23rd, Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020, the largest game development competition dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, enters the voting phase and publishes all fifteen games that are running to win the best ZX Spectrum game of 2020. Results of the competition will be announced on December 12, 2020. Games will be judged on their…
Jonathan Cauldwell, the father of the Arcade Game Designer and the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer, wrote me this morning to tell me he has just released a custom ZX Spectrum ROM that runs AGD, freeing up the entire Spectrum RAM for users’ games. Because of that, games can naturally be much bigger than before. The new ROM is written from…
This is just a quick heads up! Our partner in crime, Louie Dimovski has already guaranteed his place in the retro scene as an avid C64 game collector and a trustworthy game reviewer either over his YouTube channel or his own website, Retro Gamer Nation. RGN has just published a review of one of the most anticipated games for the…
The 2020 edition of the already traditional Amstrad CPC game development competition, CPCRetroDev, is over, and the Universidad de Alicante has announced the winners! The best game is The abduction of Oscar Z by the group Dreamin’Bits. The game also got the special prizes for Gominolas Mention (Best Music) and Pablo Ariza Mention (best Technical Development and Artificial Intelligence). The…
Picaro Games has released a new game for the Commodore 64 that you have to play. Juanje Juega in Sinverland is a platform game where each level pays homage to classic arcade games. It features 23 levels where games like Pong, Pac-Man, E.T, Chuckie are not only the background of the levels but part of the game itself, either as…
The Commodore 64 enthusiasts should get their machines ready for a weekend full of retro gaming fun. Today, two new games were released for the Commodore 64: Neptune Lander and Showdown and they will cost you less than a coffee (or a bit more if you are feeling generous!). Neptune Lander is a pimped-up Lunar Lander clone, but don’t make…
The Shoot Em Up Destruction Set 3 (SEUDS 3), previously released in cassette tape or disk by Psytronik, is now available in digital form for just USD 2.99 (or more if you are a good person ;) ). SEUDS 3 contains nothing less than six enhanced SEUCK games created by Alf Yngve. Enhanced because all the games got an overhaul…
