Category: Retro News
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Matt Householder. Matt has been creating, programming, designing and producing video computer games for over 33 years. The games he worked on are: Krull, California Games, Barbie, GI Joe, Winter Games, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, World Games, Championship Wrestling, Vorpal Utility Kit, Sub Battle Simulator and California Games. Read the Interview: http://www.c64.com
Rich Stanton wrote a blog about the making of Lemmings. The story is about David Jones who lost his job at the Timex company in 1988. David bought an Amiga 1000, and started making games. Later he created DMA Design and the legendary game Lemmings. Let’s Go! http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/
What is YAPE? YAPE is a Commodore 264 family emulator. It’s an 8-bit microcomputerfamily from the once-great-now-defunc Commodore Business Machines Ltd.They were released as a successor to the immensely popular Commodore 64supposedly to either compete with the ZX Spectrum and other micros buteventually failed to gain market success and the whole line was dumpedwithin a couple of years. However they…
Commodore News!, Hot off the press!!BozRetro resident DJ on Wednesday’s SLAYRadio Show BBB, had an interview only an hour ago, on his Live Show with none other than the great Chris Huelsbeck! Chris Huelsbeck was born 1968 in Kassel, Germany. He found himself dedicated to music at a very young age and started some piano lessons. At 14 he got…
While the Super Nintendo may have had an excellent Game Boy adapter to play the pocket-sized classics on the big screen, Sega never released an equivalent for their colourful Game Gear handheld. With a hefty amount of solder and a custom built board, one retro gamer has made his very own 2-in-1 Master System with a Game Gear cartridge slot…
This is the official version of the 80’s classic game “Montezuma’s Revenge!” by the original creator! Explore the chambers of the mysterious Aztec pyramid! Climb the stairs and ropes, collect keys to open doors! Collect the jewels & swords, and the coveted torch! Beware of the snakes, skulls and spiders! And finally, find the treasure room at the end of…
Chris Huelsbeck attends live tomorrow at the Frankfurt Film Museum at 6 PM GMT! Free Entrance! It’s also streamed live via Twitch! He is being interviewed by Nafcom of Scene World Magazine. More Info about this on the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1594807314140760/ And the Olymptronica Twitch page here: http://www.twitch.tv/olymptronica
AIRWOLF-MBSDH- Mega Bollocks Super Duper Hack* is the standard game of Airwolf by Elite Systems but with additional 22 in-game FEATURES (not TRAINERS!) that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameAs Stringfellow Hawke, a former Vietnam chopper pilot, and the only man in the free world trained to fly the billion-dollar helicopter ´AIRWOLF´ you have been assigned a dangerous rescue…
The guys over at C64.com have interviewed Mevlut Dinc. Mevlut is a game designer and has coded games on various systems such as the Commodore 64, Spectrum and Amstrad computers. The games he worked on are: Gerry the Germ, Prodigy, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Ninja 2, Time Machine, First Samurai and the development system for the C64GS….
TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 14 new, 117 updated and 13 removed. Website: http://www.tosecdev.org
