Category: Retro Gaming

Yars’ Revenge, Atari 2600 Review by Rob Joy

“Revenge is best served cold”. Or in this case, a Yar. A Yar? What on earth?! Allow the elaboration of one of the most successful video games released on the Atari. Your character, a flying insectoid being known as a Yar, is set the task of destroying the Quotile entity, protected by a cellular shield which rotates around its presence. This…

CD32X-men Mind Games, New Unreleased 32X Port for Amiga & CD32

While browsing the English Amiga Board Forums, I came across another new Amiga CD32 title by nittamituaki. CD32 X-men: Mind Games is an “unofficial port” (as fan-game) of the legendary unreleased 32X title, “X-men: Mind Games“, unfortunately the release was canceled in 1996. (More Info here). Nittamituaki’s explains that the dumped assets were reborn as a totally new FPS game using the Gloom3 engine, as it was…

Outrun New Year Demo, New Music Demo by Bionic Nerd

Some interesting News from our good friends over at AtariCrypt. Bionic Nerd aka Peter Jørgensen has recently released a new demo titled “Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017”. As you can guess from the title, this release contains music from the game “Outrun” in true Atari ST style. The demo will run happily on any Atari ST/E or Atari ST emulator. You can…

Tcheco, In the Castle of Lucio, NES Port Coming!

Way back in June 2015, a game called “Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio” was released for Windows PC. El Macbee over on NintendoAge forums has recently announced that Lukasz Kur (“Wonderland Dizzy”, “Famitale”) has started porting the game to the NES platform. It’s still early days yet, but we will keep you updated as the game progresses. For now though, you can buy the pc…

Chibi Akuma(s), Amstrad Shoot ’em up Now Available to Download

Back in December we reported about “Chibi Akuma(s)”, a new spoof-horror crazy shoot ’em up coming to the Amstrad CPC. As promised the game has been released. Download it from the link below. Download: ChibiAkumas_3Disk.7z Website: chibiakumas.com

Winter Demo Teaser for Upcoming Amiga Shoot ’em up, Bridge Strike

Project R3D are back again with another teaser video for their new indev game “Bridge Strike”. You may remember Project R3D from their previous awesome release Tanks Furry. As you can see from the new video, the game is looking fantastic, reminds me a little of that Atari game, what was the name again? Bridge Strike’s graphics, sound/sfx and smooth gameplay give…

Mazeract, Adventures in Other Dimension, New Puzzle Game for the ZX Spectrum

A new Puzzle game called Mazeract has appeared on the World of Spectrum forums. The idea of the game is to find your way to the exit of each level. All sounds pretty simple and the first few levels are, but as you progress, things get a bit more complicated and you have to find keys to open doors. Sometimes the key and…

Cybernoid CD32 Compilation [Hungry Horace][CD32][SX32]

Hewson Uses: WHDLoad by Wepl, WHDLoad slaves by Hungry Horace Cover: Hungry Horace, template by Steve ISO Master and Menu: Hungry Horace A special treat from Hungry Horace for Hewson and Cybernoid fans, both games on a single disc! With a few other treats: A beautifully animated menu system for choosing the games. CD32 Joypad support for both games (press…

Knights of Bytes Announce New Year Status Update for Sam’s Journey!

It’s been a while since we covered “Sam’s Journey”, a new C64 platfomer by “Knights of Bytes”. Today though we have some fantastic News, as Knights of Bytes recently updated their Facebook page with more game information and we are growing closer to a release date, as the game reaches the final stages of completion! While the levels of our #C64 platformer Sam’s Journey are now…

Porting Arcade Pac Man to TRS-CoCo – Developer’s Journal shows you how

Glen Hewlett has made a conversion from the Arcade version of Space Invaders, using Z80 CPU to the TRS-CoCo 6809 and we reported that a few days ago. Now he started a new project trying to port the Arcade version Pac-Man. Again the first runs on Z80, so Glen decided to write a blog about the steps he is following…