Category: Retro News
It’s been a while since we covered “Sam’s Journey”, a new C64 platfomer by “Knights of Bytes”. Today though we have some fantastic News, as Knights of Bytes recently updated their Facebook page with more game information and we are growing closer to a release date, as the game reaches the final stages of completion! While the levels of our #C64 platformer Sam’s Journey are now…
Atariteca earlier this month started a poll to elect the best original game of 2016, which had a great response. Now the Spanish-speaking Atari blog is asking everyone to vote for the best game port, enhancement or hack of 2016. This time around, there is no original game, but pre-existing games that were somehow modified or games that were ported from another platform…
After months of preparation, which included the MSX community participation, the 2017 MSXDev has all the rules defined and it is ready to start tomorrow, Jan 1st, 2017! The development contest will run throughout the year, but the most important date is the submission deadline – October 1st 2017. There will be two categories: This year, there will be two categories:…
MSX Cartridge Shop has announced three games that you will be able to have in physical cartridges and awesome packaging. Manbow 2 and Caos Begins are re-editions and the third one is Alien 8 for the MSX2, which will have a physical edition for the first time. Based on the photos provided, they are well worth The shop also informs that if…
We are in a golden age of retro printed magazines, with excellent examples dedicated to different retro computers and one great multi-platform. Just before Christmas, I had in my mailbox Freeze 64 and 8-Bit Magazine. We mentioned these publications before, but I decided to talk a bit more about both to, hopefully, help those who are on the fence about buying them. Freeze…
WebMSX is a fully-featured browser-based MSX emulator. With the new version 4.0, it brings support for mobile browsers. With this release, you can play your favorite MSX game on the go using your iPhone or Android phone. It not only runs the emulator but also allows the user to play games in full screen using virtual buttons that work on your…
Fairlight is an isometric projection arcade adventure video game developed by Bo Jangeborg and Jack Wilkes at EDGE Games and released in 1985 (Wikipedia), for the ZX Spectrum and later on ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The game was a best seller at the time as well as pleased by the magazines of the time. On Christmas day, Atariage…
After three years of development, with several interruptions and side projects, the game Pop*Star Pilot for the CoCo3 has been released! Developed by Nick Marentes, the game consists of a colourful side-scroller in which the player controls an airplane that flies through different levels whilst popping up balloons. As well as taking care of the balloons, it is important you avoid buildings and keep…
Nibiru is a new Shoot ’em up game by Jose Javier Garcia Aranda, programmed in BASIC, using the library 8BP, version V26b. You will find it in the “GameExamples” folder over at github.com. You are the pilot of a destroying ship and you must defeat the planet Nibiru and its leader, “Gorgo”, an almost invincible millenarian reptile. You must destroy the galactic birds…
Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from this hell… Pietro Bros by Cristian M. Gonzalez, as you can guess is really Mario Bros renamed for obvious copyright infringements. In the game you play Pietro and Luizo aka Mario and Luigi. This version is based on the 1983 NES release….
