Category: Homebrew Games News

C64 'beat'em-up' Crow Boy game preview source code available!

Genesis Project has released today a crack for the C64 side-scroller game preview called ‘Crow Boy’. The preview doesn’t to much gamey stuff for is is actually  a demonstration of a side-scroller involving a character that can run and jump around. It was started a while back as a college project but was eventually abandoned. On the bright side, the developer decided…

Commodore 64 musics played on a Plus/4

The official ASSASSIN CREW youtube channel has published a music collection with 45 songs that were converted from the Commodore 64 to the Plus/4. Assassin Crew is a group responsible for many releases for the Plus/4 including Xplode Man and Memento, and once more, they surprised us with this excellent chiptunes selection! [youtube wcwCmYcmTno nolink]

880 Gamer Issue #8 – Amiga PDF Magazine

880 Gamer is a English pdf magazine for the Amiga user focused on games. This issue brings several interesting articles and reviews including Game On!: Cartoon Classics Pack, Tearaway Thomas, Belial, Fears, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Star Wars. If having great articles wasn’t enough, the magazine download file also includes an ADF file containing Lotus III and tearaway Thomas. Link:…

Game 'Dingo' v1.3 for ZX Spectrum released for download.

A new and improved version of Dingo for the Spectrum is available for download The changes in the 2015 version (version 1.3) are; A much improved control method. This was the bug-bear for many people with the original release, but it’s now MUCH better. Enemy pre-spawn warning – so you can see where the Dingos are about to appear and…

R-Type Deluxe for Atari STe

It is almost one year since we posted about an upcoming R-Type game for the Atari STE. We are a bit late to tell you that the game was released last Christmas, but since it is never too late to have good news, here it is! The game can now be downloaded for free from Atari-Forum .com, and it was…

C64 16KB Cartridge Game Dev Competition – Deadline was extended and more (and good) news!

After holding a group-email discussion with the entrants, RGCD has decided to extend the competition deadline by two months. The final date to submit your project is now midnight between the 31st March and the 1st April (00:00 GMT on the 1st April 2016). Following this update, the organization has confirmed that most of the contestants still are in active…

Commodore 64 Sam’s Journey – New gameplay video!

We’ve talked about that before, but if you didn’t read, know that Sam’s Journey is a brand-new original scrolling platform game for the Commodore 64 with huge levels to be explored, hidden items to be found and secret passages to be discovered. The game is yet to be released this year and we can’t wait to see that happen. Knights of…

MSXdev’15 – 3rd entry: Bubbo World

MSXdev’15 received its 3rd entry: Bubbo World by Team N.I., an action game where the main goal is to collect all the gold ingot spread all around the screen. The character can drop ladders to get to the gold and also, he can warp to a random spot in the screen when there is no exit. Green rocks fall from the top of the…

Unknown Plus/4 games see the light of the day

Plus/4 World has made available several BASIC games that were never available online before. The website user 264er_Fan purchased a disk collection from eBay, which had some previously unknown games on it. Six of these come from Mark Lünnemann, a German programmer, who also wrote Pyramid Guy: Crack World, Dead of Night, Diamonds Man, Gallows Man, Sticknadel, Tunnel John. The…

Atari ST to Amiga Conversion – Ranarama – Coming Soon!

Ranarama is an action game developed by Graftgold in 1987 and published by Hewson Consultants. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. You see Amiga on that list? No, right? Thankfully, Galahad/FLT user on English Amiga Board decided to invest his time to make that port happen, letting all the Amiga fans to enjoy…