Category: Retro News
Announced by the Reset Magazine folks and Ausretrogamer website, the new 2018 Reset64 game code competition is on and the theme is “craptastic”. To make sure you are not thinking that it means, only crappy games allowed, Ausretrogamer has the perfect explanation: It certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and…
Mr. Do! is an arcade game created by Universal in 1982. Similar to Namco’s Dig Dug, Mr. Do! was very popular and was also released on other systems, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, MSX and Apple II. It is the first game in the Mr. Do series, and was released both as a standalone game and also as…
Ultimate 64 is an FPGA-based Commodore 64 implementation that also includes the Ultimate-II+ built-in and has support for real SID chips (two of them!). For the joy of any C64 enthusiast (at least the ones that can understand and accept the FPGA solutions!), Gideon Zweiitzer has published some pictures of the assembly line that is building the first one hundred…
We just received the heads up from MisFit (Creator of Cheese and Onion & Pentagorat for the Vic-20) that a new Multi-Platform game is coming soon called RodMän. RodMän is an Arcade game which mixes ideas from Pac-Man and Bomberman. As well as some new innovative ideas too. It’s still early days but MisFit shared some screens with us, and it’s…
Graeme Cowie contacted me through Facebook just now, to let me know that beta 1 of his Amiga Bomb Jack remake has been released! We have been following the game closely with previous News posts here and here. Quick update to say I’ve updated the Bomb Jack Beer Edition, it’s to the point now that it is good enough for…
Alec Foster recently wrote a fantastic new article, Remembering the Commodore Plus/4. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so, especially if you love the Plus/4 as much as I do! Today I would like to keep the Plus/4 vibe going, with a fantastic new Homebrew title, which completely took me by surprise! The game is called…
Good News, remember we gave you exclusive heads up on the new Arkanoid clone for the ZX Spectrum Next called Nextoid? Well Lampros Potamianos announced today that the game download will be available very soon! V1.0 of Nextoid! is in the new TBBLUE distribution that will be uploaded soon! Definitely an Arkanoid clone, but I like to see it as…
As a backer of the ZX Spectrum Next board and also the ZX Spectrum Cased version, I was very excited to receive a new backers email in my inbox this morning from the Next team. News about new games, apps, box design, upcoming firmware and more! The Box Mike has been relentlessly pushing the box forward, with the design and…
An old Adventure game called “Murdlok” for the Commodore 64 has been recovered by Michael Steil (mist). Apparently the game from 1986 never saw an official release. Originally written in German by Peter Hempel, Murdlok has received a full English translation by Lisa Brodner and Michael Steil. Not much else is known about the game. We are keeping a close…
Wizard of Wor is an Arcade game released in 1980 by Midway. Up to two players fight together in a series of monster infested mazes. Clear each maze by shooting the alien creatures. The game was also ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Atari 2600, and Atari 5200. Tschak909 on NesDev forums is currently working on porting Wizard…
