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Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
Independent retro development studio Green Boy Games release their 8-bit point and click adventure Where Is My Body? on Nintendo Game Boy today. If the name of the studio or the game seems familiar, that is because we featured in one of our Community Showcases back in July! In the game, a hand becomes conscious due to the experiment of Dr. Pentagon….
Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500! So yes, it looks like 2021 will bring a “THE”…
It is not every day that we have a Commodore 128 release, so I am very excited about Volley for Two, an action-packed volleyball game for two players created by Jonas Hultén (Programming), Anders Larsson (Graphics), and Mikkel Hastrup (Music and SFX). Make sure to read Jonas’ interview below! Inspired by the old DOS game Arcade Volleyball from 1987, Volley…
Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.
Dodgy Rocks is a new game for the Commodore Amiga, where you have one thing to do: keep dodging the rocks thrown at you! At first, the idea seems too simplistic, but Dodgy Rocks implements it so well that you will see yourself coming back over and over to get that “one more point.” Dodgy Rocks is an infinite runner…
The Vintage Computer Center store, one provider of the also excellent SDrive-MAX has announced the immediate availability of #FujiNet. #FujiNet is a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system to a WiFi network. Although networking was the initial objective of this device, it has become a jack-of-all-trades SIO peripheral emulator. The project is…
Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on GitLab which means you can download these games for free. Strand Games website explains…
Table of contents Part 1 – Hello World! Part 2 – Graphics Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!) Part 4 – Using VSCode and Action! with syntax highlighting Part 5 – Modularization and Distributing your program Yes, no sugarcoating! In this third part we will be talking about pointers! Hello?….. Hello? Usually, when people start to learn…
Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in the last 11 years for the video game companies to…
