Category: Retro Gaming

MSXdev ’21 – The traditional MSX game development competition has started

2021 has barely started, but the MSX game developers out there have no time to rest. The MSXDev’21 has been announced and will run from January 1st through October 15th. Last year, the compo went back to its roots and decided to allow only pure MSX1 games to compete. The change was very successful, and nothing less than 21 new…

Retro Revisited: Avenging Spirit

With unique game features and attractive graphics, there’s plenty of fun to be had with Jaleco’s possess ’em up!

Rabbit Runner – A new game for the Commodore 64

DoubleG has released his very first game for the C64. Rabbit Runner is an infinite runner game where you play an insatiable rabbit eating Farmer Wilson’s crop. The rabbit runs along three lanes and must eat the vegetables to keep his energy level high. Since Farmer Wilson’s is not very good at his job, the crop is full of bad…

Vitno Exclusive! Nixy the Glade Sprite is Coming to the Commodore 64!

Wow it’s been a long time since I spoke to Andy Johns, I just happened to have a quick browse over my Facebook, nothing too interesting going on until I got a DM from Andy with some fantastic News which I’ll get to in a second. You might be thinking to yourself, who is Andy Johns? Most Speccy die-hards will…

VICE 3.5 has been released with a massive list of changes!

Xmas eve 2020. The turkey on the table and wine in the glass. All the gifts are wrapped and neatly placed under the tree. What else would we wish for after a tough year? A new VICE version, of course! VICE 3.5 has been released with a long list of changes that will please its users. As the main change,…

Xmas-inspired retro games 2020

We are very close to Xmas and I’ve thought it would be fun if we have a post showing the Xmas-inspired games that are released or will be released during the 2020 Holiday season. As more games are released, I will be updating this post which is pinned at the top of the site! A Very Sheepy Xmas by Quantum…

Ozmoo goes C128 and Plus/4

Screenshot of Ozmoo playing Borderzone on C128

Ozmoo Release 5 is out. Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play text adventures which use Infocom’s game format). The first version of Ozmoo was released in December 2018. It was written to produce playable games for the Commodore 64. Now, with Release 5, support has been added for Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4. Games built for the…

Wonderful Dizzy is Truly Wonderful! We review the new game by The Oliver Twins

Since I wasn’t a British kid in the 80s and never owned a ZX Spectrum until recently, iconic characters like Monty Mole, Miner Willy, or Dizzy don’t bring me any nostalgia as they do to many of you. I think this is a good thing because I can enjoy many of these games with fresh eyes and an open mind,…

Wonderful Dizzy – First New Dizzy Game in 26 Years to be released this week

The first completely new Dizzy in adventure from the Oliver Twins in 26 years is to be released Friday 18th December 2020 for ZX Spectrum! Dizzy was a massively successful UK Video game character developed initially for 8 bit home computers, but then as the series expanded in popularity there were many releases on 16 bit computers, PC’s and consoles….

The Double-Do Results – Find out the winners of the TRS-80 Software and Hardware Competition

The Double-Do competition winners were announced in the December issue of the TRS8Bit Newsletter. The competition had so many entries that the organizers decided to expand the categories and awards from two to six! The winners were spread in three different categories. The Monochrome category for software developed for the Model I/III/4, the Coloured category, for programs created for the…