Category: Other News
Collectorvision is pleased to announced that they have opened up pre-orders for two new games for the Intellivision platform – MoonSweeper and Mad Bomber. Moonsweeper is a shooter game that has previously been released on various other vintage systems including the Atari 2600, Colecovision, C64 and ZX Spectrum. The action takes place in space and on the surface of satellites…
One of the great things about retrogaming is the passion of the community, and it’s always a pleasure to read and share the contributions made by those who help to make the scene as vibrant and engaging as it is. We’d like to take the opportunity to give a warm welcome to Ian Maddison (@itsbigian), the latest member and contributor…
Back in June, we covered SNK’s official unveiling of it’s NEOGEO Mini console, a new, portable game system containing a selection of classic Neo Geo arcade titles. In the run up to the console’s release, SNK has now published a short trailer (read advert) for the console. This gives us with a better look at the unit, it’s features, and…
Gruber has released a chiptune version of the “Stranger Things” soundtrack. For those of you that have never heard of it, Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, directed and co-executive produced by the Duffer Brothers, as well as co-executive-produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. You can listen to the whole chiptune ost over…
The Kickstarter for a new book called “Classic Game Covers, Confessions of An Art Junkie” has been 100% funded! With still 7 days to go there is still time to push it to the max to reach the stretch goals too. So head over to the project page to secure your copy now! https://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/015/896/987/82ad0f2b0d6bf45cdc9b0c2147178a43_h264_high.mp4 Website: kickstarter.com
Alex Zaikin has created a replica of Mikro-80, an early ’80s Soviet 8-bit computer whose designs were published in the magazine “Radio”. The Mikro-80 had a very large chip count (approx. 200) and was very difficult to build. Consequently, it was not a popular machine. It used the KR580VM80A CPU (which was a clone of the Intel 8080), sported 64kB…
If you are using Windows, OSX or any Linux graphical interface you are using the product of a groundbreaking project from the early 70’s, the Xerox Alto. The Alto was the first computer designed around a graphical user interface and introduced Ethernet and the laser printer[1] to the world. This article published on Ken Shirriff’s blog talks about the Alto and its impact…
Scene World Championship 2016 Live on Twitch on 29th of May 2016! AJ, Joerg and Senad will play classic C64 games. Also included the battle between AJ and Joerg where AJ tries to beat Joerg in Pit Stop II :) Senad (Team Retroblah) is our special guest this time, who will also be the honored chat host! :) Tune in…
On Wednesday, the 30th of September, Scene World Magazine will be interviewing 3D Realms live as part of their “An Evening At The Museum” show! They will be talking about the history of their kickass games and also about their new IP “Bombshell!”. Watch it live via Twitch: 30th of September, 7 PM CEST: Website: http://twitch.tv/olymptronica
