Category: Retro Gaming
We are already used to the ‘Flashback’ consoles featuring Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. Some of these are already launching its 6th edition. Out of blue, Nintendo has just announced that they also decided to join the retro gaming nostalgia club, launching the NES Classic Edition, a palm-sized NES console packaged with an HDMI cable, an AC adapter and one NES…
Eurogamer website has published an extensive article showing how a Kickstarter campaign can go wrong, telling the story of the Recreated ZX Spectrum, which is (was?) a ZX Spectrum Bluetooth keyboard that could be connected to a companion app on mobile devices as well as on PCs, bringing the full Spectrum experience when using emulators on those devices. The campaign was…
After 20 years, the CD copy / homebrew protection on the Sega Saturn has been cracked. A very clever reverse engineer known as Professor Abrasive has managed to dump the 64kB ROM of the CD subsystem processor and figured out the byzantine copy protection code and how it interacts with the Video CD slot. A proper announcement of this is…
A new classic gaming contest has been announced over at highscore.com. This time, the goal is to crack previous high score trophies on Atari (2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, Lynx, Jaguar, ST) Colecovision PC Engine / TG-16 Nintendo (NES/Famicom, Super NES, N64, Gameboy, GBC, Virtual Boy) Arcade / MAME This contest has some truly awesome prizes, including an X-Arcade Dual Stick,…
The Den of Geek website has published one of those (in)famous lists that you see all over the internet. This one talks about the 15 greatest games even made for the ZX Spectrum. The site is not oriented directly to retro gamers so maybe you won’t agree with every choice, but with Elita, Manic Miner and R-Type, the author was…
After six months, theThe Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) team has released a new package, including lots of Commodore contents. Here is the release message: “This release is all about Commodore C64, with many contributions by Duncan Twain and SG-1 Charpy. In addition, we also have some ISO updates thanks to tomse. All folders and contents should be self-explanatory. All…
Ninjaforce has released a new version of Kaboom! The version 1.03 brings support for Rev. B of Alex Lukacz’ 4-play joystick card and fix a bug with the setup of the 4-player mode. Kaboom! was released in April and it is a Bomber Man-style of game for the Apple IIGS. You can download the game for free following the link…
John Linville has just announced that the episode 13 of CoCo Crew podcast is now available, featuring an interview with Wes Kussmaul (the founder of Delphi). Ther is also the usual news, feedback, discussion, technical, and games segments. Link: CoCoCrew.org
A while back we announced that the organizers of MSXdev’15 had decided to declare the contest null for a very upset reason: the lack of commitment of the judges to actually analyze and rate the games. Today, however, the same organizer have come public to take the harsh decision back and at the same time to announce the winners of the contest, using…
Joe Decuir started to work for Atari in 1975 and was one of the engineers responsible for designing the iconic Atari 2600 and the 8-bit computers 400/800. The historian-podcaster-writer-archivist Kevin Savetz scanned Joe’s engineering notebooks from the time he worked at Atari and now the precious document is available at Internet Archive. With handwritten notes and schematics, the content of the…
