Category: Retro News

Jam It – 2-on-2 Basketball for Commodore 64 Now Available to Buy!

Back in early April we reported about an upcoming C64 basketball game by Throwback Games titled Jam It. The game has been released today and you can purchase it for the humble sum of just $2.99 USD (or more). Jam It will be also soon be available on cartidge, disk & tape from Psytronik and RGCD (release date to be announced)Jam…

Tasukete Tako-San: Save me Mr Tako – Awesome Nintendo Game Boy Styled Action Platformer!

During a stormy night, an army of Octopuses attacked a human ship. One of them saved a woman who fell into the sea. A fairy, which saw his actions, gave him the power to breath outside the water, but in exchange, he has to promise to never hate a human. Tasukete Tako-San: Save me Mr Tako is an Action/Platformer with…

Poncho, Multiple Dimensions Open World Puzzle Platformer!

A Platformer like nothing seen before, explore this open-world puzzler in layer based gameplay. Waking up in a post apocalyptic world of overgrown ruins filled with life, a robot named Poncho begins a journey to find his Maker. Humanity has been extinct for centuries, leaving their robotic creations behind to fend for themselves. These robots have formed tribes and communities…

Slipstream – 80's Retro Racing Heads for Steam Greenlight

What is Slipstream? Slipstream is an arcade-style checkpoint racing game. You drive across 15 different tracks and race against the clock to get to the finish line, while avoiding the traffic and obstacles along the way. At the end of each track, the road splits in two different paths, allowing players to choose their next destination. The game takes place…

Faerie Fantasy Platformer – Demo Now Available!

It had been 100 years since The Eradicator had been… well… eradicated, and the land of Faerie thought that it knew peace once more. But then the spirits began to creep across the nether of the realms. Driven mad by the peculiarity of the world that they found themselves in, they became hostile and violent. A group of fairies sought…

Gamasutra talks to 'Retro City Rampage' developer about his MS-DOS version of the game

We had reported here about the MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage. The game made its way to all major platforms since 2012, and now the developer wants to release it for MS-DOS, preferable using floppy disks!. Gamasutra sat with Brian and talked about his project. Right, but this was something I wanted to do years and years ago (…)…

'Space Ace' source code for the Apple IIGS has been released

Are you on a hunt to learn or improve your Apple II programming skills? Here is a great opportunity for you! Rebecca Heineman releases source for IIGS version of Space Ace on GitHub. Back in 1990, Rebecca bought a copy of the game released by ReadySoft and didn’t like the fact the port was only for ProDOS, requiring you to…

Wario in LoZ: Ocarina of Time Rom Hack

Here we have another Nintendo 64 rom hack which is very similar to the Waluigi in LoZ hack, except this time russmarrs2 modded Wario into the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Debug rom which has some different plugin settings to play on. You can download the patched rom in the link below, have fun! [youtube gFoMsxuCnTE nolink] Download: WarioOfTime.Z64Download:…

Waluigi in LoZ: Ocarina of Time Rom Hack

Waluigi in LoZ is a fan-made rom hack starring Waluigi, by modder russmars2. While not necessarily new News, our main focus on Vintage is the New Old is about Retro Gaming. We thought it would be a great idea to also post some older news that people may have missed or forgot about and what better way to start this off…

Generation 64 Hardback Coffee Table Book – Teaser Video

The first teaser for the English translation of Generation 64 is now launched by Bitmap Books. The Kickstarter campaign will open on the 17th of July. Generation 64 is a hardback coffee table book that tells the story of how the Commodore 64 influenced an entire generation of Swedish gamers in the 1980s. This generation of gamers, demo sceners and…