Category: Retro Gaming
Based on an original game by Jim Summers on the Commodore PET, Mr. NOP has released SLIME for the Commodore 64. “Battle the growing slime before it takes over the screen, shoot the membranes and eradicate the slime. As the slime grows, cells begin to grow inside the membranes which then chase after you. Complete the level to advance to…
There are many different options for a modern storage for the Apple II and it is always hard to make an informed decision about what is the best option that fits your budget. Old Tech | New Tech Magazine has published the first of a series of articles planned about the solid state options for the Apple II. The article reports…
VICE.COM has published an excerpt from the book Electronic Dreams – How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean. The book was recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing and tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time turning it into a user-friendly domestic technology. It also covers the other side of the history with the…
Bobby Bearing is an isometric 3D arcade adventure developed by Robert Figgins and Trevor Figgins released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. “The player controls Bobby Bearing in his search for his four lost brothers and their cousin. He must avoid the evil Bearings, find his missing and unconscious relatives, and roll them out of…
With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…
Battle City is a multi-directional shooter video game originally developed for the Family Computer produced and published in 1985 by Namco. There is also versions for the NES, Gameboy and many other platforms…but not for the ZX Spectrum. The active Speccy community didn’t sweat because of that and many clones were made throughout the years. Since there is never enough…
If you follow our (almost) daily posts, you probably saw one about the 2016 BASIC Tenliner contest, that is happening right now until March 28th. After reading the appeal made on MSX Resource Center, calling for MSX programmers to participate in the contest, I decided to listen and give my contribution. The only caveat is that I never had done…
The Obligement Amiga website published the results of its pool which let you chose the best Amiga games of 2015. The list below shows the 3 first places of each category and the link will take you to a gameplay video (or info page), in case you haven’t seen them before! AmigaOS (68k): Zerosphere – Code Red / Alexander Grupe SQRXZ 3 –…
When I saw this game today on CSDb I thought “Uh, shiny!”. With that profound thought in mind, I downloaded it to check it out. The very first thing I noticed is the use of the old school password for each level, so you don’t have to restart the game from the beginning every time is game over. So make sure…
Bitmap Books has certainly found its niche and a lot of success there, not without deserving it. The publisher has been releasing many fantastic books about retro gaming like Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. Now they just released a new book called Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection, which shows, as the name suggest, the box art of almost 250 classic Super…
