Category: News
John Linville has posted his comments about all entries for the Retro Challenge 2018/04. Since the challenge is not a traditional contest with winners and losers, John’s comments reflect his take on each one of the projects that the participants had worked on during last April. If you couldn’t follow the participants’ blog posts while the challenge was happening, there is…
The Commodore 64 community has been reinvigorated with the recent launch of TheC64 Mini, bringing vintage 8-bit gaming back to the general consumer looking for an easy to use plug’n’play solution. However, the Mini was not the first Commodore 64 themed project in this century to entice us middle aged boys and girls to put on the ‘rose tinted glasses’…
Sky diving hey…who doesn’t love the adrenaline rush of jumping out of a plane and hurtling down towards the earth at a brain busting speed…well chickens like me for a start, that’s who. Fortunately, David Asenjo (aka Darro) has allowed me to experience the virtual thrills of this death defying sport with the release of the game Sky Diving for…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/443882757″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] Andrew (BackOfficeShow) and I (RetroManCave) host another guest to share their life in retro through video game music before we cast them away on Retro Island. Today it’s Daniel Ibbertson AKA DJ Slope from the popular YouTube channel Slopes Game Room. Daniel takes us through his formative years, DJ’ing, his arcade arch nemesis…
It’s been a while since we posted an update regarding the homebrew gaming database, but we’ve been working as hard as ever in curating the very best freeware titles from around the web. With 100 new titles added, update 7 is by far the largest we’ve published since the section went live earlier this year and we have no intention…
The game Tetris was (and continues to be) a world wide gaming sensation for over 30 years ago. The perfect balance between simplicity and never ending addictive game play means that there would be many readers of ViTNO that have at least played one variant of Tetris over the years. My first exposure to Tetris was on the Commodore 64…
Old-school console gamers should be interested to learn that a crowd-funding project is currently underway, looking to secure investment from backers for Tänzer, a new release targeting Sega’s 16-bit Mega Drive console. Spearheaded by Mikael Tillander and Johan Agurén, information from the official Kickstarter page describes the game as a hack n’ slash platform game, taking inspiration from arcade classics such…
West Bank for the Commodore 64 was one of my all-time favourite games back in the 1980s. Despite its simple premise, West Bank’s requirement for concentration and fast reaction all wrap up in a Western Cowboy setting had me returning to it time after time. So imagine my excitement when I found out that Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) game…
Aaron White has recently sent over two new Amiga remix music disks. Wiggle it is a remixed version of the club classic by 2 in a Room from 1990. The second disk is a remix compilation of three well known tunes from the 90’s: Snap: Rhythm is a Dancer, Culture Beat: Mr Vain and Whigfield Saturday Night. If you was…
The 128RM is a new Commodore 128 board that will fit inside the Commodore 64C housing. Very little is known about the board, with only a few prototype pictures shown on the German forum, Forum64. The creator (TheDuckSun) explains there are some modifications like: SD2IEC, VIC/VDC output switcher, Control Port switcher, 8bit colour ram, as well as 6-36VDC input voltage,…
