Category: Retro News
Limbo is a side-scroller game released by Playdead Studio in 2010. The game took the game industry by surprise showing fabulous black & white graphics, clever puzzles, and terrific animation. It was awarded many times by several different game developer associations and now is available for almost all modern game platforms you can think of. But the big news for…
Reminder: We want to remind everybody of the C64.TV prize giving that we had mentioned in our last Scene World Podcast right at the beginning of it! (http://scene.world/hamsterfox)! Share your story of the 80s and 90s as a youngster where you went to eletronic stores and bought your computer and games stuff, supply your stunning story and best back it up…
A lot of people out there that celebrates Christmas like to have their own traditions that are repeated religiously every year. Blake Patterson from Byte Cellar has also jumped on the tradition rituals bandwagon and once more published a post showing off retro Christmas demos. The 2017 demo collection consists of 16 demos across 13 platforms, including the CoCo, ZX…
Terrible news for the ZX Spectrum community. The creator of the ZX-Modules has announced that he will leave the retro scene and with him the ZX-Modules webpage and Facebook page. ZX-Modules is a comprehensive set of tools and utilities for ZX Spectrum cross-development. The set includes ZX-Paintbrush, ZX-Blockeditor, ZX-Preview, and ZX-Assembler among other indispensable tools that made a lot of people’s…
MSXPad is an IDE that let you program for the MSX using the Pascal language, which can be a nice way to get started on the MSX world for those who are not versed in assembler or C. The biggest problem to start using the tool is that the current official version doesn’t work on Windows 8 or 10. Thankfully,…
Our old friend Carsten ‘tomse’ Jensen has produced two amazing calendars for the year of 2018. One containing all months on one single page, and the other, the traditional one page per month. Both are full of our all-time favorite C64 game images! The calendars are in PDF and ready to be printed. If you were looking for a calendar, consider…
I hope the title of this post won’t be seen as a bait&click one, as in this new game for the ZX Spectrum you play as a chess piece, but you don’t play the chess game! Knight Hero is an arcade/action platform game where you play as the knight, the only chess piece that didn’t get enprisoned by their enemies….
Slime, a game created by Mr. NOP and released last year for the Commodore 64 (reported here), got a new version just in time for the World of Commodore, which happened last weekend in Toronto, Canada. There are the additional features added to the game: A loading picture Bug fixed the level display Bonus life at 10,000 points Starts in single…
Vintage is the New Old has entered the Top 75 Retro Gaming Blogs starting at number 18! This is fantastic and motivating News for us, we hope you all continue to enjoy the latest Retro Gaming News we provide to you guys. Expect a lot more regular interesting posts in the very near future! Keep it Retro peeps! ;-)
Today, I came across this blog post on Ken Shirriff’s blog where he describes how to print a Christmas card on an IBM 1401 mainframe, a pretty popular low-end computer sold throughout the 60’s. Driven by the Reddit’s Retrobattlestation challenge for this month, the blog post is super interesting not only for the Xmas card itself but because it gives us a…
