Category: Retro News
The Shoot Em Up Destruction Set 3 (SEUDS 3), previously released in cassette tape or disk by Psytronik, is now available in digital form for just USD 2.99 (or more if you are a good person ;) ). SEUDS 3 contains nothing less than six enhanced SEUCK games created by Alf Yngve. Enhanced because all the games got an overhaul…
The Commodore Plus/4 enthusiasts are always happy when a new conversion for a classic game comes out. This time around, though, they can multiply the excitement by three! K., Róbert (KiCHY) (Plus4World handler) has released his take on the 1983 Commodore 64 game Paratroopers. Interestingly, the game was ported for the Plus/4 twice in the past, one in 1989 and…
If you follow CSDb releases, you saw that yesterday three new games were released for the Commodore 64, with Halloween as the common theme. They are simple games, but they have a lot to offer in fun time playing them. Death Saw Challenge The first one is Death Saw Challenge from The New Dimension. Although set in a fixed screen,…
If you follow us on Twitter (or @CommodoreBlog. @RetroGamerNatn, @Al82_Retro), you might have seen some teaser images of the upcoming Commodore 64 game ‘Wild Wood’ and its astonishing graphics. If you, like us, want to follow its development closely and buy the game when it is released, now you have a single source of information via the website https://www.wildwoodgame.co.uk/. Wild…
Almost by accident, yesterday I came across Digger III: The Saint’s Ascension, a new game released for the CoCo3 with 512K RAM. Heavily inspired (clone?) on Lode Runner, Digger III is a platform game where you have to run across each level collecting gold and avoiding the enemies. After you collect all gold, a door will open, and you need…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Mashdy Games has just released Pitkat is a new puzzle game for the Atari 2600. The game is available as a free download (link at the end). The game is based on Pitman for the Gameboy, which was based on a game created for the Sharp MZ-700. This Atari 2600 version was created by Marco Johannes, Dyfed Hitchings, and Sharemhel…
Independent retro development studio Green Boy Games release their 8-bit point and click adventure Where Is My Body? on Nintendo Game Boy today. If the name of the studio or the game seems familiar, that is because we featured in one of our Community Showcases back in July! In the game, a hand becomes conscious due to the experiment of Dr. Pentagon….
Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.
The Vintage Computer Center store, one provider of the also excellent SDrive-MAX has announced the immediate availability of #FujiNet. #FujiNet is a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system to a WiFi network. Although networking was the initial objective of this device, it has become a jack-of-all-trades SIO peripheral emulator. The project is…
