Category: News

Galaga announced as the next Quarter Arcade cabinet with two more to come in 2019

Following last year’s launch of the 1/4 scale replica of the original PAC-MAN arcade cabinet, Numskull Designs has announced that it will once again team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment to release Galaga as the second installment in its Quarter Arcade range. Generally considered as one of the world’s most innovative arcade shooters from the early 1980s, the official fully…

Learn how to install and use Amiblitz/BlitzBasic 3 on the Amiga emulator WinUAE

This is just a quick plug to a video Phaze101 has published on YouTube teaching step by step how to install and run the Amiblitz (aka Blitz Basic 3) on the Commodore Amiga running on WinUAE emulator. Amiblitz used to be a commercial product that allowed programmers to create Amiga applications using the BASIC language while still delivering excellent performance….

Berzek is now available for your trustworthy NES!

Parisoft has released a port of Berzek for the Nintendo Entertainment System and it is available for purchase on itch.io. Berzek is an arcade game released in 1980 by Stern and later ported to the Atari 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. It was one of the first games to dynamically generate mazes and have synthesized voices. I actually remember it was…

RGCD 16K game dev competition hots up with 20 exciting submissions

Following 6 months of ASM-hacking, register-poking and generally slaving over a hot keyboard, the C64 community has served up yet another batch of exciting and intriguing titles for this year’s RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition. An impressive 20 titles were submitted by the July 1st deadline, and it’s fair to say that the judging panel has its work cut out this…

Netflix Bandersnatch’s ZX Spectrum game ‘Nohzdyve’ gets MSX version

Giovanni Nunes has published on his blog (in Portuguese) a version of Nohzdyve for the MSX. The game was featured on Black Mirror’s episode Bandersnatch, an interactive tv show where the main character is a game developer in the ’80s. In the show, the game is one of the releases by Tuckersoft, a fictitious game publisher, for the ZX Spectrum….

AMIGArama Episode 88: Xybots

Atari gets the AMIGArama close up in Lorfarius’ latest look at a Doom like shooter before… well Doom was even a thing!

Zillion-inspired 2D Action Game GRELOX nearing completion – new screenshots!

Developer Sunteam has announced that their retro-inspired game Grelox is close to completion, and has released a new website and set of screenshots. Grelox is inspired by the Sega Master System game Zillion (an indeed uses the SMS colour palette) and casts you as a ‘Galactic Troubleshooter’ who has to infiltrate the base of the curiously named ‘Lady Mandrill’. The…

TheC64 – Full-size model with a working keyboard can be in your hands in December 2019!

Retro Games Ltd has just announced that the full-size TheC64 will be available next December 2019 and can be already pre-ordered from selected retailers for £109.99. This time around, TheC64 is a fully featured home computer featuring our beloved bread bin form factor, but prepared for the 21st century, including HDMI output compatible with PAL and NTSC. TheC64 features three…

Mancave to get released this weekend with bonus game, Chris Stanley speaks to VITNO

Psytronik Software has confirmed that the Commodore 64 single screen platform arcade game, Mancave, is set for release on 22nd of June with the game being available on digital, cassette and disk formats. VITNO readers were provided with a preview of the game back in early February whereby we revealed that the premise behind the game was that you play…

Feature: Longplays – a guide to preserving gaming history

We explore the process of recording retro longplays, video editing tips, and everything in-between!