Category: Retro News
If I was to mention the name “Bitmap Brothers”, I am sure a lot of you will be flooded with fond childhood memories of fantastic games from back in the day such as the mighty Xenon II, the gorgeous Gods and of course everyone’s favourite, the addictive Speedball. I think you will agree with me that most, if not, all…
Finnish development studio Kamina Dimension has launched a Kickstarter campaign for it’s new action-adventure game, MindSeize. In this new indie title, players assume the role of a private investigator on the hunt for members of a criminal organisation known as ‘The Ascended’, an enigmatic cult that intends to transcend the boundaries of mere mortality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708957978/mindseize?ref=project_link In a bid to bring an…
Mattias Gustavsson recently shared some interesting News on Facebook about a game called Afterworld. Even though this is the first time I have heard about this project, after a bit of investigating, it seems that this isn’t new News at all, as Mattias started work on the project way back in 2014. The game is much inspired by an old…
Back in June Nogalious was released for Windows PC. A successful Kickstarter project from 2017, Nogalious is a retro platformer, much in the style of many 8-bit video games of yesteryear. The evil Darama has kidnapped your daughter Mariet with a dark purpose that goes beyond ruling Russadir. You must cross different worlds until you reach the castle of Darama,…
I’m sure many of you have played Psytronik’s awesome Soulless on the Commodore 64 by now, a fantastic platform adventure with massive maps to explore, stunningly detailed graphics & animation, plus some very atmospheric soundtracks. For those of you that aren’t aware, a sequel is in the making. It was announced in May that the cavern level of the game…
After a good read through Chris Wilkins new Retro Game magazine Fusion, it’s time to pre-order issue 2. Each issue is packed with no less than 52 pages of Retro Gaming content including Indie games, hand-held gaming, Arcade and even some info about current gaming too! The magazine is A5 in size and printed using high quality silk paper. For…
Gamers looking for some old-school, hardcore run and gun shooting action would do well to take a look at Blazing Chrome, a new indie game title in development by Joymasher. Inspired by such quintessential run ‘n gun shooters as Contra III: The Alien Wars and Metal Slug, Joymasher certainly appears to be distilling the essence from some of the genre’s…
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
After the good reception that Volume 1 of Brian Matherne’s The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, he surprised us with the second volume, already available at Amazon. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2, covers another 34 game titles from 24 homebrew cartridges and ROM downloads that have been developed for the 2600. Printed in black and white on cream colored…
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
