Category: Retro News
As they say: “It is never too late to start learning”. If you believe that and is a happy owner of a TRS-80 CoCo, you are lucky! The Oregon Trail is being ported to the CoCo! Early today, Paul Shoemaker posted a video on the TRS-80 Color Computer Facebook group showing his progress porting probably the most famous educational game…
Kick-man was developed for the Atari 2600 back in 1983. Set to be published by CBS Electronics, the game was cancelled and never saw the light of the day. For all these years, it was in every Atari 2600 enthusiast wishlist. Following the old saying “better late than never”, and thanks to the efforts of Dutchman2000 and Thomas Jentzsch, the…
This year, my annual trip to Brazil coincided with the time when the biggest game show in Latin America takes place: Brazil Game Show. This year’s edition had more than 300,000 people walking the aisles, checking the 400 booths featuring giant players like YouTube, Facebook Games, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and many others. Although I like and play games…
Psytronik and Remute are collaborating in a Commodore 64 game bundle, featuring 8 games by Psytronik and a Remute music EP which can be played on a C64! Similar to Humble Bundle sales, the Groupees bundle lets the buyer name the price, starting at US$3.99. The majority of the sales go to Psytronik, therefore buying this bundle the user supports…
Stefan Vogt (@8bit_era on Twitter) has two text-adventure games (with nice graphics!) available for a while for the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The games are Hibernated 1 and Eight Feet Under (an add-on for the former). If all that wasn’t enough, Stefan has announced yesterday that he ported the game for yet another…
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. Originally developed for the Atari 8-bit, the game was published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with ports for the Apple II, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Bruce Lee RX by Allan Turvey is a graphical update…
The Internet Archive keeps updating its game collection very often with small additions on many of the “retro” platforms but this time they exceeded our expectations releasing 2,500 MS-DOS games at once “ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago“, as stated in the announcement post. They also warn that not all games are performing…
The ZX Spectrum Kickstarter has been a thrilling soap opera we all have been following for the past two and a half years, almost as long as Days of our Lives. The journey is not short of soap-opera-like surprises, bad news and even cliff hangers. While the end date is still to be defined, the newest update 51 brings more…
The Portuguese-speaking Clube MSX Magazine has released its latest issue, the number 6. The 40-page full-color issue brings lots of content and, as usual, some gifts for the readers. Reviews: The Awakening (MSX2) Los Amores de Brunilda (MSX2, MSX2+ e Turbo-R) The Sorrow of Gadhlan’ Thur (MSX2, MSX2+ e Turbo-R) First part of an article talking about audio expansions for…
Another World is one of those cornerstone titles that turned heads upon it’s initial release for the Amiga and Atari ST back in 1991 with its cinematic cut scenes and wonderful game art and animations, attaining both critical and commercial success. Digital Monastery (the gaming division within Hokuto Force) has just released the introductory cut scenes of Another World for…
