Category: Homebrew Games News
Metal Sonic returns from the Little Planet with a plan to resurrect his creator using ancient alien technology. Can Sonic, Tails and Knuckles collect the Chaos Emerald and Time Stones to stop Metal Sonic before its too late? Sonic Time Twisted is an unofficial fan made Sonic the Hedgehog game that has been in development for 12 years. Featuring 28…
You are Deuce Darkstar on a secret, daring, foolhearty mission to infiltrate the Domain of Shmup and stop the Alien Downpour they are preparing to rain down upon all you know and love. You know it’s a suicide mission, but you eat suicide missions for breakfast and you’re mighty hungry. Good Hunting! Alien Downpour is a fast-action arcade-style shooter for…
Hot of the press today is a new crack release from Hokuto Force. Katakis is a side scrolling shooter style arcade game developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts in 1987, and converted to the Commodore Amiga by Factor 5 in 1988. It was re-released as Denaris in 1989. The Hokuto Force release contains the following trainers and bug…
Good afternoon Retro Gamers, today we have a special Homebrew treat for you all, Dave Hughes has released a new Shoot ’em up for your Speccy! Dave decided to set himself a goal and see what could be achieved using an old game engine, his choice was Games Designer from Quicksilva Ltd released in 1983! This program is well known…
We have been spoilt with many awesome new AGD (Arcade Game Designer) games these past few months. Andy Johns awesome releases, Monty’s Honey Run, Temple of Lost Souls and not so long ago the great Ooze, as well as Foggys Quest by John Blythe and many more. All fantastic games with much time and thought put into them. And so the trend continues with…
Aetherbyte Studios has released a selection of PC Engine games in the past, such as Pac-Man influenced Pyramid Plunder and free mini-game Reflectron, but they have now turned their focus to the MSX with Inferno – a platform action game for MSX2/2+ and to celebrate the near-completeness of the game, they have released this quirky VHS-style commercial. Inferno should be…
Globus is a new ‘old’ release by Paco Lafuente. The game was developed between 1986 and 1987 and was unpublished until recently. The game looks a lot like Pac-Man minus the collecting of pills. Instead you have to try and get to the left side of the screen, collect your energy charge and make your way to the right side to discharge without getting…
This year, Canada is celebrating 150 years and releasing a commemorative $10 bill is part of the activities planned for this year. And this is vintage/retro how? You might be asking… The retro-gaming bit is that the Bank of Canada website showing off a beautiful 360 degrees rendered bill (which you can flip around) hides an easter egg that can be…
LWTOOLS is a set of cross-development tools for the Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 microprocessors. It supports assembling to raw binaries, CoCo LOADM binaries, and a proprietary object file format for later linking. It also supports macros and file inclusion among other things. The version 4.14 has been released bringing the following changes, including explanations from the author: The “forwardrefmax”…
Sunteam has released a new ZX Spectrum styled shoot ’em up for Windows. Feeling like a cross between Space Invaders and Missile Command, you have to protect pods from enemy fire, by either destroying the enemies before they can shoot, or intercepting their bullets with your seemingly invincible ship (which slowly follows the horizontal position of your targetting cursor). The…
