Category: Homebrew Games News

Defence, Amstrad CPC game by Shining

Defence is a so-called tower defence game written by Shining during the years 2014-2016. Your task is to prevent the enemies reaching their goals by placing weapons around the playground. In the best case, you place the weapons in a way, which forces the ground enemies in a maze. The game should run on every CPC and Plus with 6128…

Chunk Zone, New Tank Shooter by Gabriele Amore

Chunk Zone is a new ZX Spectrum game created by Gabriele Amore. Blast the evil green chunks and the more evil white chunks (if hit they give you some health point) QAOPM or joystick, M (or fire) to shoot the green chunks, M+A (fire+ down) to shoot at the white chunks. At the end of each round press fire to…

C64 ‘Reset Magazine’ crew debuts new podcast

All of the Commodore 64 enthusiasts out there probably know about the Reset Magazine. If you have a hard time reading it while driving (!!!) you may be interested to know that the people behind the magazine just released a new podcast. The first episode brings a nice discussion about the background and features behind Issue 9 (which celebrated the games of…

Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan, Fantastic New ZX Spectrum Graphical Text Adventure!

Ersh over at World of Spectrum Forums has released a new graphical text adventure game for the ZX Spectrum. The game was originally planned to be created on the Commodore 64, ten years ago! The game is coded from scratch in assembly. The code, puzzles, story and additional pictures took Ersh just over a month to put together. Below is the game’s description…

ZX Spectrum Shoot 'em up- A Yankee in Iraq (2016 revival)

Way back in 1992, Ast_A_Moore over at World of Spectrum Forums wrote a shoot-em-up called A Yankee in Iraq. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. He decided to revive the game and have another look over it. The only thing he was able to find was the BASIC file; the rest of the assets, the loading screen, music, and UDG were…

New Homebrew Amstrad CPC Games recap

We thought we would gather a list of the last few releases of Amstrad CPC Hombrew games on the scene. There are some fantastic games here not to be missed! Click the links to read about them and in most cases there will be a download in the thread, Enjoy :) Golden Tail (youtube) Heroes Rescue! The Return of Traxtor (youtube)…

Merman reviews new C64 game "Shotgun" from Dr. Wuro / Nafcom's speech at the ^ Power-UP Digital Games Conference released

A busy time for us, our staff member Merman releases a video review of the new C64 Game’s boxed edition of “Shotgun”: [youtube lXiwJw3MgoQ nolink] Joerg Droege’s speech on the 1st ^ Power-UP Digital Games Conference (July 2016) topic: “Working Adjacent to the Games Industry A Hobbyist’s Perspective” Released on YouTube with kind permission from Zettabyte Marketing: [youtube UTh4lUxO9ag nolink]…

Shotgun – Commodore 64

Shotgun for the Commodore 64 computer is now available as a deluxe box version with a flip cover, 5.25″ diskette, printed game manual and 3 cool extras (surprise!). The game can be played with four players! In the game you collect guns and shoot at each other, but each gun only has 3 bullets. A very fast paced game, perfect…

The Mojon Twins Release ‘Yun’ Brand New Nintendo NES Platformer!

Once again hailing from the depths of Spain, The Mojon Twins are back with another stellar homebrew release. Yun is the newest platformer to hit the Nintendo NES, and best of all it has been released online for free. The game puts you in control of bubble blowing demon tasked with filling the pantry of its sushi restaurant. This unusual…

Raid Over Moscow – Unfinished Prototype Amiga Port!

A partly complete port of Raid Over Moscow (using Adrian Cumming’s art and coded in Blitz Basic) We have some interesting News we found today over on the English Amiga Boards. EAB Moderator earok has released an Unfinished Prototype Amiga port of the game Raid Over Moscow. – Only a few levels. Hangar, Defence and Map screens are done. It’s…