Category: Homebrew Games News

Pietro Bros! Mario Bros NES Clone Lands on the ZX Spectrum

Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from this hell… Pietro Bros by Cristian M. Gonzalez, as you can guess is really Mario Bros renamed for obvious copyright infringements. In the game you play Pietro and Luizo aka Mario and Luigi. This version is based on the 1983 NES release….

Heroes Rescue, Amstrad Homebrew Game Now Available For ZX Spectrum!

Defecto Digital have released a new ZX Spectrum port of their Amstrad game “Heroes Rescue”. In the game you play Fry from Futurama, who has to rescue other cartoon heroes from The Simpsons, T.M.N.T and Marvel. Things aren’t that simple though, many enemies from the same cartoon series will try to prevent your way to the top of the level. On your way to rescue the…

Chibi Akuma(s), A New Amstrad Shoot ’em up Coming End of December!

While browsing through CPCWiki forums today, I came across a thread about a new Shoot ’em up game coming to the Amstrad CPC, that is certainly worth mentioning. According to the creator Keith56, Chibi Akuma(s) is a spoof-horror firepower crazy shooter! The game play is heavily inspired by Death Smiles, with a more cartoon style like Cotton, but be warned though, the…

New Vic-20 Games to Play over the Holidays

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day, and for those of you that still have some holiday time off work, we have a few interesting Vic-20 games you should check out. First up we have “It Came From the Grave”, by Graham Daniels, which is a neat little memory game. You start by the computer showing you briefly…

Oh Mummy! Remake for the Intellivision by nanochess

Oh Mummy is a computer game originally for the Amstrad CPC models of home computer. It was developed by Gem Software and published by Amsoft in 1984. It was often included in the free bundles of software that came with the computer. The object of the game is to unveil all of the treasure within each level (or pyramid) of the…

The Darkness of Raven Wood, by Rucksack Games, BBC Micro/Electron

The year is 1862. You received a letter from your old childhood friend Raynard. You have kept in touch on and off since you left your village for the city to find work and a more interesting lifestyle. Raynard elected to stay and eventually moved to a neighbouring village called Raven Wood to take over the running of his fathers’…

Vote for the best homebrew Atari 8-bit game of 2016

Atariteca, the best Atari-only website in Spanish is conducting a non-scientific poll, trying to elect the best Atari game released in 2016. The list only includes new games released in 2016 so all ports of games from other platforms or hacks/improvements were kept out. Although the poll lets you click multiple times for as many games you want, I hope the poll…

New Plus/4 Puzzle Game 1010! Released by Legion Of Doom (LOD)

Legion Of Doom (LOD) (P,Csaba (Csabo) have released a new homebrew puzzle game for the Commodore Plus/4 Computer. Fit pieces onto a 10×10 board. Complete rows and columns to clear blocks. The game can be played on real hardware, or through emulation such as YAPE. You can also play it right now online here. Download: Plus/4 World, Pouet Website: plus4world.powweb.com

Newly Announced Commodore Amiga Homebrew ‘Max Knight’ Gets Demo Disk Release!

Max Knight is a new single screen Arcade Adventure for the Amiga containing 36 massive levels to explore, set in 5 different worlds. The story is your brother has been kidnapped by a large green dragon and locked away in a dungeon for eternity. You must fight your way through these 36 levels, collecting hearts for health replenishment, keys to…

Locators Synd Preview &DT, Genesis Project, Commodore 64

Hedning from Genesis Project contacted me recently to give us the heads up on Locators Synd Preview &DT for the Commodore 64. Here’s a few words from the man himself :) Genesis Project give you a preview of a very, VERY promising new strategy game called Locators Synd, translated from German to English by WertStahl, and linked by L.A.Style. Docs…