Category: Retro News
The already traditional game development contest sponsored by the Universidad de Alicante has announced the start of its 2019 edition. CPC RetroDev 2019 aims to promote the development of games targeting the Amstrad CPC 464. This year contest is giving to the best games nothing less than 1.650 €, divided in the following categories: Special mentions: 150 € – Gominolas…
The Blacktooth Empire has a Head and Heels problem so join AMIGArama in this week’s interplanetary team up for an Amiga remaster of this 8Bit classic.
The Kilrathi-blasting space saga is set to return in style in this ambitious update to the Origin classic!
Following 6 months of ASM-hacking, register-poking and generally slaving over a hot keyboard, the C64 community has served up yet another batch of exciting and intriguing titles for this year’s RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition. An impressive 20 titles were submitted by the July 1st deadline, and it’s fair to say that the judging panel has its work cut out this…
Giovanni Nunes has published on his blog (in Portuguese) a version of Nohzdyve for the MSX. The game was featured on Black Mirror’s episode Bandersnatch, an interactive tv show where the main character is a game developer in the ’80s. In the show, the game is one of the releases by Tuckersoft, a fictitious game publisher, for the ZX Spectrum….
Retro Games Ltd has just announced that the full-size TheC64 will be available next December 2019 and can be already pre-ordered from selected retailers for £109.99. This time around, TheC64 is a fully featured home computer featuring our beloved bread bin form factor, but prepared for the 21st century, including HDMI output compatible with PAL and NTSC. TheC64 features three…
Way back in February 2018, we announced some interesting News about an upcoming Arcade remake of Mr.Do! for the ZX Spectrum which you can read about here. Mr.Do! is an Arcade game created by Universal in 1982, similar to Namco’s Dig Dug. Mr. Do! was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple…
The New Dimension has announced that its Official C64 SEUCK Compo (Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit) 2019 entered the voting phase, where the public are invited to pick their favourite games of 2019. This contest edition has 13 participants which make voting a big but fun task! The winner of the contest will get a new front end with possibly…
PC Engine fans rejoice! Yes, as you have read from the title, the PC Engine is returning! For those of you who are not familiar, the PC Engine (also known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the USA) was a home video console by NEC Home Electronics and was first released in Japan in 1987. 10 million units were sold worldwide. Despite…
A run and gun without the running… and not much gunnin. Just what have we gotten ourselves into in this weeks AMIGArama with this Hewson hit.
