Category: News

Retro Revisited: Odyssey (Amiga)

We take a look at the charming mid-90s fantasy-themed Amiga arcade adventure!

Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters, Commodore 64

Millie and Molly Meet Malicious Monsters is an upcoming Commodore 64 game by Carleton Handley (code), Saul Cross (graphics) and Hans Axelsson-Svala (music). In it’s early development the games title was temporarily named “Catrap (Pitman)”. Many Game Boy fans will be familiar. Catrap also known as Pitman in Japan, is a puzzle-platform game originally developed for the Sharp MZ-700 computer…

Tiny Emus, On the Go Gaming.

Some interesting News popped up on Twitter recently regarding a website that is at least New to me. “Tiny Emus” has a lot to offer the on-the-go Retro Gamer. Perfect for someone who doesn’t have the time nor the patience to mess around fiddling with emulator settings. Visiting the website, you will be presented with a full page of games…

ZX Parachute – When Nintendo Game & Watch meets the ZX Spectrum

ZX Parachute is a new game for the ZX Spectrum developed by Carles Oriol that follows to the letter the Nintendo Game & Watch game device released in 1981 where you control a boat that has to prevent parachutists to fall into the water infested by sharks. The boat can be moved left or right but can only be in…

Join us on Discord!

We’ve wanted to build a ViTNO community for supporters of our site, as well as friends and fans of the retro computing scene for quite some time. Sadly, as cool as a Teletype or BBS might have been, even vintage computing enthusiasts need to move with the times, so instead we welcome you to join our very own Discord server!…

MSX now can play all ZX Spectrum Arcade Game Designer games!

I believe everybody, even outside of the ZX Spectrum community, knows about Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD), a game engine that lets you create professional-looking games for the Speccy and Amstrad CPC. Not long ago the Dragon and CoCo community were blessed by a converter tool that helped to bring nothing less than 219 games made with AGD to…

Runner Bear – First game of 2020 for the Atari 8-bit

One of the games available in the New Year Disc 2020 released by Ralf “PPs” Patschke is Runner Bear, an infinite runner game for the Atari XL/XE with at least 48K of RAM. Developed by Paul “Playsoft” Lay, Darryl Guenther y Rob Schlort, Runner Bear presents colourful Mario-like graphics with a very well designed parallax scrolling effect, giving depth to…

Retro Revisited: Fred’s Back (C64)

Given away on the cover of 64’er magazine, Fred’s Back is a professionally created platformer for the C64!

Yazzie – New platform game released for the ZX Spectrum was created in only 6 days

Although it is not unseen to have games developed in a short period of time, it is easy to make a really good game in less than one week. One game that falls in that category is Yazzie, developed by Denis Grachev for the competition Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019, which happened at the beginning of last month. Yazzie is…