Category: Retro News
A few days ago our good friends over at Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News about a new ZX Spectrum game called In Nihilum Reverteri. In Nihilum Reverteri by Yerzmyey, is best described as an ‘interactive novel‘, where you read paragraphs of text, then make a choices, which can change the situation of the game. This appears to be a…
David La Monaca contacted us through Facebook today to let us know that issue five of his Italian Retro Gaming Magazine has been released. RetroMagazine is a free PDF magazine dedicated to Retro Computing. Inside, you will find articles about games, programming, curiosities, hardware mods, new software, stories and more! If you can read the Italian language, have a read…
If ever there was a game that felt ahead of it’s time, it would be Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. Developed by Beam Software and published by Firebird in 1988, the game features Stan Sakai’s comic book character, Miyamoto Usagi, an anthropomorphic rabbit who travels feudal Japan as a ronin and occasional bodyguard-for-hire. This was one of the…
Since the start of this year the website has exploded with popularity and our daily hit count has hit the roof! (thanks guys!) We are overrun with so many emails and private messages sharing the latest Retro Game News, sometimes we end up playing catch up. If we haven’t shared your News yet, don’t worry, we will get around to…
Stunt Car Racer is a racing game released in 1989. Designed by Geoff Crammond, the game was available for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. We recently announced News about a new Atari 8-Bit Port, and now it looks like a new Atari Jaguar version is on the way too! Check out the early…
Checking our inbox today, we received an email from Marco, announcing some lovely News that Tower 57 has been released for AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and AROS! Previously the game was a Kickstarter success which was also released on PC. “In a dystopian, dieselpunk world, where Megatowers are the only enclaves of civilization, a group of extraordinary individuals is sent to…
The results for the ZX-Dev Conversions competition are in, and the winner is.. (drumroll) Mighty Final Fight! 2nd Place goes to Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and 3rd place was Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey. [vsw id=”DCMdxXL0yQM” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]Final results 1.Mighty Final Fight 2.Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors 3.Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey 4.Retroforce 5.Twinlight 6.Parachute 7.Baby Monkey Alba 8.Bobby Carrot 9.Gandalf 10.ZXombies 11.Saving…
Developed as collaboration between Red Company and Atlus, ‘Bonk’s Adventure‘ is the first game in a franchise that stars Bonk, the prehistoric cave-boy. Initially appearing on NEC’s PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 console, the series would also receive conversions to the NES, as well as the Commodore Amiga under the moniker of ‘B.C. Kid‘. In this first adventure, the dastardly King Drool has…
Rhayader Computers is an excellent little website that sells some really nice Retro Game Memorabilia. They have some beautiful Retro mugs such as PC Engine, Asteroids, Mr Do, Scramble, IK+ and also a lovely Amiga mug with the classic King Tutankhamun Deluxe Paint image. As well as mugs they also sell mouse mats (custom too), button badges, keyrings and even…
Warhawk is a vertically scrolling shooter published in 1986 by Firebird software. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8bit, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. In the game, the player must dodge and destroy obstacles along a vertically scrolling screen, at the end of each level, there are a large number of ships flying at the player from various…
