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The development team behind the Mega65 are looking to raise €66,000 for steel moulds that will allow for the production of the machine at more reasonable prices. The Mega65 is slated to be an open sourced FPGA based 8-bit computer with Commodore 64 and Commodore 65 compatibility. It is claimed that the machine will run at 50 times the speed…
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…
The Atariage user “Philsan” has announced a new game for the Atari 8-bit: Monty on the Run! The game consists of a conversion from the 16Kb version released for the Commodore Plus/4 by Gremlin Graphics in 1986. Based on the screenshots, the people behind the conversion did an incredible job with the graphics. Hopefully, the gameplay is as fun as…
The Internet Archive keeps updating its game collection very often with small additions on many of the “retro” platforms but this time they exceeded our expectations releasing 2,500 MS-DOS games at once “ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago“, as stated in the announcement post. They also warn that not all games are performing…
Andy Green recently announced a top-down maze shooter called Mage Rage, which will be coming to the ZX Spectrum. Developed by John Davies and Andy using AGDx Mini, you take control of Mercure the Mage, exploring a ravenous beasts evil lair, full of spiders, bats, rats, goblins and trolls. You must recover “Magical Swirls” which were stolen from the stone…
Commando 2084 is a new game for the Commodore 64, and it’s a bit of an oddball. The creator has taken the original Commando game and mixed it up with the controls of the classic Arcade game from 1982, Robotron 2084. It’s still good old Commando as you remember it, but with a different way of controlling your character. Joystick…
Here’s one for all you Snes fans out there. Justice Beaver, The Great Timber Tantrum is a new game that is due to be released sometime this year. After doing a little bit of research on Twitter, it seems that this game has been in production since July 2015. Fast forward to 2019 and the game is looking polished, a…
Lorfarius meets the Beast from Altered Beast in this grand show off with Sega’s classic brawler.
Psytronik Software have made a huge announcement over the weekend confirming that they will be releasing the Metal Warrior Quadrilogoy Collector’s Edition box set, consisting of four complete C64 games from the creator of Hessian and Steel Ranger. The Metal Warrior series was developed by Covert Bitops, with the first being released on the C64 20 years ago. which sees…
Double Sided Games has opened up pre-orders for their upcoming sci-fi/horror dungeon crawler Amiga game, Black Dawn Rebirth. VITNO had the opportunity to preview the game last month and were greatly impressed with the overall production values and appreciated the relaxed pacing of the game action. If you missed our article you can read the preview here. Double Sided Games…
