Category: Retro News

Scene World Podcast Ep. #198 – Music for the Virtual Boy with Tronimal

We are happy to welcome back chiptune maestro Tronimal! He is well-known for amazing Gameboy music albums and energetic live performances. This time we are talking about his upcoming Virtual Boy album and the process of making an album for Nintendo’s early VR attempt. The interview section starts at minute 44:24 Enjoy! Listen to/watch: https://scene.world/robonaut

Scene World Podcast Episode #181 – Rebel Rabbit

We are back with a new episode of our podcast and this time we welcome Germán Cruz, CTO of the game studio Rebel Rabbit from Peru. We are talking about their history, their several years experience in the industry, their approach and of course about their new game ‘Wild Wild Space’. Enjoy! The interview starts at minute 37:37 into the…

EXO-TICAL, ZX Spectrum

Stellar Diary, March 12, 2533: Earth-3 is dying. We have consumed and devastated our entire planet, as we did before. And now, this is humans’ last attempt to avoid our own extinction. Planet ZMX-22 could still save us. Known as “Exo-tical”, due to its exoplanet status and its particular and dangerous natural characteristics, it contains an inexhaustible source of energy…

Retro Rewind: Chloe Learns to Recycle, Amstrad

This game has been developed for the virtual workshop “Knowledge of the Natural Environment and Sustainability”, organized by Asociación Cultural Seis Viñetas / Salón Internacional del Cómic de Huelva, Citizens of the Year Award in Arts and Culture 2014. Help this nice girl find bottles and take them to their respective containers, but the place is full of biting bugs…

PunyInform Coding 2: Objects and Actions

PunyInform

PunyInform is a tool for writing text adventures for 8-bit computers and newer computers alike. If you have already installed PunyInform and gone through the PunyInform Coding 1 tutorial, the time has come to learn more about objects and actions. This tutorial goes through the different parts of a simple game where there are two puzzles to be solved, you can score…

Booty The Remake, Amstrad CPC

Jim the Cabin Boy must make his way below decks to collect various items of booty (automatically picked up when he walks past it) strewn around the ship. When you have collected all the items from the Black Galleon’s 20 holds (screens), you will be given 45 seconds to locate the Bronze key to the next pile of booty. Clearing…

PunyInform, a new library for writing text adventures for old computers

PunyInform

PunyInform is a library for the Inform 6 programming language, to make it easy to create simple or advanced text adventures which will work well on 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Spectrum +3 etc. PunyInform was first released on July 5, 2020. The rootsThe Inform programming language, compiler and standard library were developed by Graham…

Zdenda’s Montezuma, Atari 8-bit

Montezuma’s Revenge is a 1984 platform game for the Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). Back in the day Zdenda ZZubr always dreamt of programming his own version of Montezuma. Many years later, now in his 50’s, Zdenda has finally made his own dreams come true….

Clube MSX has two new cartridge releases for the MSX!

Clube MSX is starting this Monday (07/03) the pre-sale of My Sacred Place and The 4 Masters of Melody Ex in cartridge for MSX. Each game comes with a box, manual and gifts and can now be purchased in the Clube MSX virtual store for R$ 179.00 (promotional price for each game) plus shipping costs (international orders must be made…

Zeta Wing 2 has been released for the Commodore 64

Following the success of Zeta Wing, Sarah Jane Avory has just released a second game in the series! Zeta Wing 2 is a fun vertical shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64, sequel to Zeta Wing, itself the winner of both the RGN Gamers’ Choice Award 2020 for the Commodore 64, and Indie Retro News Budget Game Of The Year 2020. Story:…