Category: News

Collector’s Corner: TK-95 – The Brazilian ZX Spectrum, but better

  Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which in Brazil were represented by the Gradiente Expert and the Sharp HotBit. With that in mind, I started my research, trying to find a…

Scene World Podcast Episode 56 – PLATO and IRATA ONLINE with Thomas Cherryhomes

PLATO is the great, great, great granddaddy of the online computer network. Developing forums, email, multiplayer networked games, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is responsible for many of the things we take for granted today. AJ and Joerg take a deep dive with IRATA.ONLINE’s Thomas Cherryhomes into why PLATO is as awesome as it is, and how it still…

Prisoner of War on MSX available to pre-order, gets trailer!

The Metal Gear-styled stealth ’em up impresses in a new 5 minute gameplay trailer!

RodMan Multi-Format Game Released, Game Video Show Case Available

The Future Was 8 Bit is pleased to announce the availability of their new multi-format release, RodMan. Developed by Mika ‘Misfit’ Keranen, your objective is to guide RodMan around multi- screen maze levels, collecting pills, avoiding enemies and using bombs to eliminate the bad guys. RodMan is available the The Future Was 8-Bit in a Special Triple Cassette Edition covering…

Remake of Krush, Kill ‘n’ Destroy in development

The post-apocalyptic, 90’s RTS gets a fan-made overhaul!

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 54: Micro Machines

It’s time for some Micro madness as we race around the AMIGArama house in those amazing Micro Machines!

Flimbo’s Quest coming to Atari XL/XE!

Downloadable preview of the C64 classic shines on the Atari 8-bit lineup!

Limbo for Commodore 64 Preview available for download

We all know that Limbo, the award-winning game released in 2010 by PlayDead, is being ported for the Commodore 64 by Søren Trautner Madsen for more than a year as we announced a while ago. After almost one year of being in the dark with no further news other than the video preview posted in our previous news, the C64 version…

Retro Games hints at imminent news on Full Size TheC64

Retro Games Limited, the maker of TheC64 Mini, has announced the soft launch of their new website  that will feature “new products, newsletters and much more!”. However, the most exciting part of the new website is the inclusion of a page dedicated to the full size TheC64. As yet, there are no specific details about the full size model with…

3D Realms reveals new Quake 1-powered FPS

3D Realms has revealed the merest of glimpses of a new first-person game it’s been working on. Bearing the intriguing moniker of “Codename Mourningvale”, the short clip – shown below – evokes memories of the original Prey, featuring inter-dimensional portals, not to mention the low-poly hand and oversized wrist-blade. Whilst this is all that has been revealed thus far, what…