Category: Retro News
Team Rusty Pixels has released a new scroll demo for the ZX Spectrum Next: ScrollNutter. If you are a coder, you will be happy to know that all the source code is included! Releasing the source of this demo, Jim Bagley and the Rusty Pixels team hope that anyone looking into to developing on the ZX Spectrum Next will be…
Sheep It Up is a puzzle game playable on any model of Game Boy (including Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player). The aim of the game is to climb upwards by jumping and hanging your sheep to flying velcro straps. The concept is simple, but the game rapidly becomes quite challenging. How high can you climb without falling down?…
Graphic concept artist Trevor Storey has been quite active in the Commodore 64 gaming scene in recent years working with talented coders Stuart Collier, Georg Rottensteiner and Achim Volkers to produce an impressive collection of new releases for the Commodore 64. Storey recently provided fans with an updated of their upcoming titles and confirmed: Organism is to be released in…
The laser disc version of Road Avenger/Road Blaster was released in 1985 by Data East and Toei Animation. Most of us remember the more common Sega CD port by developer Wolf Team, released in 1992, also known as Road Blaster FX in Japan. It was also brought to the LaserActive and released under the Sega Mega LD format, this time…
Crisot recently announced his new Amiga game on the English Amiga Board Forum. SweepOut is a MineSweeper clone where you have to make the highest score, rule the hi-score table, and show the world how good you are! But beware, if your score can’t be beaten, it can be destroyed! To play this game properly, you need an online Amiga…
Some of you might remember Psytronik’s 2007 C64 game called “Joe Gunn”. A charming platformer in the style of Indiana Jones. You can now grab the digital download version for free! over on Itch.io. You are Joseph J. Gunn. Archaeologist by passion. By chance you stumbled upon an unknown pyramid in the desert of Egypt. You suspect it to be…
A new teaser video of the eagerly anticipated “Heroes of Gorluth” has been shared by Viddi over on the EAB forums. Heroes of Gorluth is a game by AmiWorx, the same people who made Tales of Gorluth and Tales of Gorluth II. Unlike the previous games, the team have decided to move away from Action and Adventure and over to…
As you may have noticed, we have a couple of new writers on Vintage is the New Old. Alec Foster joined us a few weeks ago. You may have already read some of his fantastic Retro ramblings and Retro Game Reviews. Our second new author is Louie Dimovski, he is our latest Retro News Poster and will also be writing…
Dave Clarke of Impossabubble fame, has announced on Facebook that he’s updating his old game “Brick Racer” for the ZX Spectrum. The game was originally made last year, and judging by his comments on the AGD Facebook Group, it looks like he’s making good progress. It’s getting there. I plan to also have a ‘modern’ version. At the moment I…
Allan Turvey contacted us the other day to let us know that he recently released a patch for Airwolf on the ZX Spectrum. Hi Sarah – here’s an intro to an Airwolf mod I did which makes the game look a bit more realistic. I also added a tiny sprite which is quite a lot of fun. YouTube Info: A…
