Category: News
After the good reception that Volume 1 of Brian Matherne’s The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, he surprised us with the second volume, already available at Amazon. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2, covers another 34 game titles from 24 homebrew cartridges and ROM downloads that have been developed for the 2600. Printed in black and white on cream colored…
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
RetroGames Limited has just announced that the Reset64 2017 Game of the Year winner, Galencia will be making its way to TheC64 Mini as a new free game. To be added as part of an upcoming firmware update, Galencia is a high quality single screen shoot’em up highly inspired by Galaga, programmed by Jason Aldred and released by Protovision, to…
Issue 11 of the the dedicated C64 magazine Reset64 is now available for for digital download from their Itch.Io page. The compilation Mix-i-Disk that comes with the latest issue of Reset64, includes a handful of great C64 titles such as the previously covered Exploding Fish and Operation Metalstorm. Operation Metalstorm, designed by Alf Yngve with music and additional coding by…
A quick update about DeltaStar Earth Defense: Although the plan was to launch the game at the end of July, as we proclaimed here, Adrian Cummings has just announced that due to a series of (good) factors, the game released has been moved to… NOW! Yes, the future proud ZX Spectrum Next owners are able to order the game now, in digital download…
IGN has published an article about the Intellivision Reboot Console, where Intellivision Entertainment president, Tommy Tallarico, put light on some details about the console, games, and accessories. About the games, a possible initial line up might include classic games like Shark! SharK!, Astro Smash, Tron: Deadly Discs, Biplanes, Snafu, Major League Baseball, Pitfall!, and Night Stalker. Interesting to see that Intellivision president states…
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis!), the awesome people at RetroAcción are organizing a programming contest. The participants can develop a video game of any genre and complexity. Games that are closer to be considered a finished product, will be more appreciated. Very ambitious games will be considered but the object of the contest is to have more…
Fans of interactive adventure games and fiction may be interested to learn that The Galleon is hoping to set sail for the venerable Commodore 64 in the near future. Released exclusively in Hungary under the original title of A gálya, Robert Olessak’s graphical adventure went largely unnoticed since it never secured an international release since a publisher could not be secured. The…
We rarely feature old News but I thought this one was worth a mention. Ichigo tweeted back in 2017 about a WIP Barbarian port for the Sega Master System titled Cimmerian. In 2016 a demo version was released for a competition held by SMS Power website. Visually the game looks amazing on the humble Master System, with crisp stunning graphics…
Way back in 2015 an Intellivision version of Defender of the Crown was announced on Atari Age. I’m sure most of you will fondly remember the Amiga version and how much of an impact it made on us back in 1986. Released on multiple systems including the Atari ST, Commodore 64 and even the Game Boy Advance, Defender of the…
