Category: News

Commodore 64 Round-Up – October 2020 – Know everything that is going on with the C64 in less than 15 minutes!

Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, Stoker, Alien Neoplasma, and many more. All that…

NESmaker 2020 Byte-Off demos now playable online

To promote NESmaker and grow its userbase, The New 8-bit Heroes held a game development competition during the summer. The 2020 Byte-Off was a month-long game development competition where NESmaker users create brand new demos for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.  Now that the competition is over, all the game demos are now available. You can play them directly in…

Survival Messenger Adventure – A Beautifully Illustrated Text Adventure for the Commodore 64

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…

Where Is My Body? Out Now on Game Boy

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….

Retro Games, the maker of TheC64 teases an Amiga 500 for 2021

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”…

Volley For Two – A new game to join the select club of new games exclusively made for the Commodore 128

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…

Any true retro gamer should read ‘Attract Mode – The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games’ by Jamie Lendino

Photo by Kay Savetz

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 – An Amiga game that shows that simplicity and fun can make a good game!

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…

#FujiNet – The all-in-one Atari 8-bit peripheral is available now for purchase

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…

Magnetic Scrolls classic masterpieces remastered for the Spectrum Next

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…