Category: Retro Gaming

Download 'Ladybug' for the Commodore 64

Mr.NOP has released Ladybug for the Commodore 64. The game is a direct port from the author’s PET version, which was released a couple years ago. All using PETSCII characters, in the game you have to navigate your ladybug throughout the maze while collecting food. Swing the doors to block the predators from reaching you. The C64 version has the…

Commodore 64 SEUCK Sideways competition 2015 – Open for votes now!

The 2015 Sideways Scrolling SEUCK Compo voting form is online. There were only 3 entries for this competition, but due to the high quality your vote is needed! These are the three contestants:       You will have until December 31st to vote for your favourite. Link: SEUCK Voting Page

You donate to Internet Archive this weekend, Antic Podcast gives you prizes!

ANTIC, the Atari 8-bit podcast is having a campaign this weekend, trying to reach USD10,000 in donations for the Internet Archive. The campaign runs from noon PST 12/12 through noon 12/20). Here is what you can do, and what you can get: If you donate >= US$50 and forward the podcast crew a receipt for your donation, they’ll send you…

Vintage Inception – Now you can play MSX games with your Sega Game Gear

We know you can play MSX games on-the-go on your smartphone, but how about do it using a Sega Game Gear!? It is like emulating an Altair in your Commodore 64, but cooler! Developed in Japan, the GGMSX is an adapter that allows you to use MSX1 cartridges in your Game Gear. The video below shows it in action. [youtube q9lrUXYykJ8 nolink]…

Commodore 64 gets two new cracked games by Hokuto Force

Today Hokuto Force has released on CSDb two new (old) games properly cracked and trained. The first one is QUE by Zerosoft is a small Lunar Lander type of game but without the thrust rocket to slow you down. That detail makes the game really hard sometimes and not as fun as our very own Mission:Moon. The second one is…

The Dream of Rowan – A new game for the Amiga gets Kickstarter Campaign

Rowan wakes in the dungeons stunned and disorientated….. but he begins to remember… Along of this game, you will see how the main character Rowan: a small elf child has to go through hundreds of obstacles and destroy powerful magicians and terrible creatures to rescue his family and friends, and save our world from the darkness. In addition to this,…

Commodore Plus/4 Moldi's Treasure 9/10

This 9th shipment of Moldi’s Treasure Chest brings to light several “first productions” from the dawn of the scene, demos which we’ve thought to be lost forever in the mists of time, starting from that First From Genius demo just present into our archives but found to be buggy and impossible to fix. Source: Plus/4 World

New issue 8 of Pro(c) Atari is out!

The new issue of Pro(c) Atari is ready and wait for your orders. The team behind it will try to ship is as soon as possible so it can be a nice addition to your Christmas stockings. This issue contents: Time For A Quickie Report: Videogame MeetingRasta Converter Pictures Rasta Converter Pictures Interview: Christopher Murray Reviews by Jeff Parker of…

Commodore 64 Tetris in 6502 Assembler – part 11

Part 11 of this “best-seller” blog post series is out, bringing more of his Tetris game coding with 6502 Assembler. Wiebo de Wit mentioned on his post that his code has changed so much during his process to write the article that he decide to only talk about the highlights. These are the changes he will cover: Modified the input…

The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom

Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork  the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…