Category: Retro Gaming

Jet Set Pac, EFEKTPOL VR’s Tribute to the ZX Spectrum for iOS

We very rarely cover (if ever) mobile games as we focus mainly on classic games from back in the day. However we was recently contacted by Marcin Nowak about a new (old) game for iOS. The game is titled “Jet Set Pac” and is a tribute to the classic game “Jet Pac” (1983) for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and…

The Mojon Twins Release “Mega Cheril Perils”, A New Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Homebrew Game!

The Mojon Twins are at it again, some might say they possess super coding powers as yet another release has surfaced for free download. This time around the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive is the platform of choice. “Cheril Perils” was originally a game released by The Mojon Twins for the ZX Spectrum way back in 2010. “Mega Cheril Perils” is much the same game…

ROMhacking.net Latest Updates

Latest updates over at romhacking.net are as follows: DuckTales 2 – Two Players Hack Mod 1-player game to support 2-players game simultaneously. Second player is Darkwing Duck! New in version 1.4a (31 Jan 2017): Select for 1 player or 2 players game. 1 player game matches original. Game slowdowns reduced. Improved sprites showing on hardware/with sprite limit enabled. Many bugs…

AmiGameJam 2016 Game Downloads

You can now download the entries for the AmiGameJam 2016. Bridge Strike (ADF) Brus Lii (ADF) Easter Egg (LHA) The Last Starfighter (ADF Disk 1) (ADF Disk 2) Max Knight Xmas Edition (HDD) (ADF) Santa Run (Amiga OS4) (LHA) Website: amigamejam.ultimateamiga.co.uk

Boxx Trilogy CD32 [Lemming880/Cobe][CD32][SX32]

Game and all artwork: Lemming880 Launcher app: Earok ISO Master and intros: Cobe The Boxx Trilogy is a series of gleefully cartoony, homebrew platform games by Lemming880, based on the Backbone engine. With Cobe’s support, they’ve generously provided this Trilogy for the unofficial conversions project. Some CD32 specific changes were made especially for this collection: Boxx1 -Added gfx panel -Scenery:…

Foggys Quest by John Blythe, Small Update, New Title Screen & Box Art!

Foggys Quest is a new AGD Spectrum game by John Blythe, which has received a very minor update recently with a new Title Screen and new Box Art!, and we must say they look Fantastic! What do you guys think? Looking back through previous screenshots, the game looks to be almost finished?, but we may have to wait a little longer until we see a release. As usual we will…

MAME Emulator turns 20!

You know you are getting older when the emulator that let you play older games is already 20 years old. Yes, MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has turned 20, and it is better than ever! During this 20 years, MAME made possible for everyone to revive (old people) or experience for the first time (youngsters) thousands of amazing coin-op machines…

Twin Dragons NES Demo for the NesDev Compo 2016 Released!

We just had some fantastic exclusive News in our inbox today! Antoine Gohin (glutock), creator of Twin Dragons Demo for the NES, just announced that the nesdev compo 2016 demo version has been released! You can download the rom from the link below. Many thanks for the heads up Antoine. :) Download: Twin-Dragons-20170131-0.074.nes Original Post: vitno.org Forum Thread: nintendoage.com

FS-UAE 2.8.3, FrodeSolheim’s Amiga Emulator Latest Release!

A new stable version has been released. Changes in FS-UAE 2.8.3: Fix decoding on non-ascii %-escaped file names on directory HDs. Fixed caps lock. Imported updated translations from crowdin.com. Changes in FS-UAE Launcher 2.8.3: Show error message when version started is too old (cannot read databases). Fixed save state dir when starting with UUID parameter. CDTV games (from database) did…

10 PRINT “BASIC 10Liners 2017 contest is on!”

The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event: The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the…