Category: Retro News
Outrun was ported from Arcade to various game consoles and computers, the best retro port in my opinion is the PC Engine version, an excellent conversion and very close to it’s Arcade counterpart. The Amstrad CPC version unfortunately is quite the opposite, a rushed and unfinished Speccy port, this abomination is legendary and notorious amongst CPC fans for being, hmm…how…
A beautiful hardcover book chronicling the Commodore Amiga years. First hand interviews, insane stories, and lots of laughs. Continuing the story of Commodore where the previous book, Commodore: A Company on the Edge left off, this book takes a look at Commodore’s most tumultuous years How did the Amiga, a computer now widely regarded as having been five years ahead of…
Another small update for the colourful C64 platformer, Sam’s Journey. Knights of Bytes have released another teaser video titled ‘Metamorphosis, Part 1: A Pirate’s Life For Sam‘. Sam demonstrates some of his new abilities. He can pick up items and carry them around. Also, he can throw them at enemies! The chest, however, reveals an item with very special powers….
Equality was originally written under PC-DOS by Jean-Michel Martin Santero then adapted by Bruno Ethvignot. An earlier version had been developed on the Amiga in 1991, but unfortunately was never finalised. This version was very different, but deemed too complex by many. Equality was programmed in machine language MC68000 with Devpac assembler and runs on Amiga OCS and 512 KB…
Xenopew is a new horizontal shoot-em-up by Lemming880 made in Backbone. Backbone is a game creation kit for AmigaOS 3.x which is fully GUI-based, there’s no programming or scripting required to make your very own games, similar to, but much more powerful than SEUCK. With Backbone you can create platformers and run & guns like Ruff & Tumble or Superfrog,…
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…
The Nintendo 64DD is often regarded as being one of those highly collectible items we’d all love to own, but in reality the lack of available games for the add-on make it a tough purchase to justify. Although the lure of an F-Zero X Expansion Pack, Sim City 64 and the first appearance of Doshin The Giant may be tempting,…
Z-Exemplar is a side-scrolling shooter in the tradition of R-Type, Gradius, Nemesis and other classic arcade games from the past. Borrowing its aesthetic from the computers of yesteryear (specifically the Sinclair ZX Spectrum) Z-Exemplar combines bright, bold, 8-bit pixel art with frantic action and an epic mission to conquer a galaxy of almost 1000 planets. Produced by Suminell Studios, it’s…
Jet Set Willy is a platform video game originally written by Matthew Smith for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published in 1984 by Software Projects and ported to most home computers of the time. The game is a sequel to Manic Miner published in 1983, and is the second game in the Miner Willy Series.Jet Set Willy 2015…
The Greek printed magazine “Retro Planet” has 52 coloured pages and is quarterly published. The eighth issue includes an interview with Pascal Papara. News Source: http://www.amiga-news.deWebsite: http://www.retroplanet.gr
