Category: Retro Gaming
Life on Mars is a new game by Kai Magazine, an MSX2 action-platformer game that features good graphics and music. The game will be released as a 512KB megarom cartridge. The requirements are MSX2 or higher with at least 128KB RAM/128KB VRAM (OPL4/MOONSOUND version) or 64KB RAM/128KB VRAM (FM-PAC/MUSIC MODULE version). You can check the game watching the video below….
Retrocomputaria is a Brazilian retro-computing podcast and blog. The podcast is really interesting and funny and I recommend to those who speak Portuguese. For the rest of the people that don’t, you can enjoy this holiday special episode playing ‘Gradius Ultimate Collection’ released by Konami in 2011. List of the tunes: Morning Music Beginning Of The History Challenger 1985 Beat Back…
Lupo Alberto is a game developed in Italy that has been published by Idea for the Commodore 64 in 1990, and Amiga in 1991. Amiga Power magazine game to the Amiga version a 78% score. The magazine review summarizes well the game as a “cut down Super Mario Bros. A scrolling, platform based landscape is patrolled by creatures with different intelligence and…
It’s a Pixel THING Youtube show talks about how the publishers used to sell their games back in the 80s: Cover art, magazine adverts and posters! In the 80s, and even early 90s, graphics weren’t, at all, the selling point of a videogame. Covers and adverts on magazines were! Let’s take a look at some examples on how to sell…
Aric Wilmunder, the interviewee of Antic Podcast Interview 104, is the creator of the real ‘Star Raiders II’ for the Atari 8-bit. The game was never released, until now. The creator has posted on Internet Archive the unfinished game (ATR file), alog with a guide to controls in the game and “The Authoritative Star Raiders II”, Aric’s description of why the…
The #msxdev Compo is a MSX software competition in which all sorts of MSX software is allowed, from games to utilities running on any MSX model. Unfortunatelly, this year’s compo was cancelled due to the lack of interest – the compo didn’t get a single entry so far. Most likely, there won’t be any other editions in the future, according…
The web site Plus4world is releasing another instalment of the Moldi’s Treasure Collection. The 8th issue came out only two weeks after the previous one. It is mentioned that this one and the next two won’t have anything particularly amazing, but there are so many utilities, games and demos never seen before that makes these releases really good! Link: Plus/4…
S.A.M – Software Automatic Mouth is a a software-based voice synthesizer for the Apple II. According to A2Heaven, SAM is designed to be easy to use, and with a couple of simple program statements, the user can add speech to your BASIC or machine language programs. You can see by yourself how it sounds like watching the video demo below. [youtube…
Introducing our new section in Scene World: Video Reviews of new Hardware and Software for your C64! Our newest staff member Kevin Casteels, aka Alterus starts by reviewing the latest hardware for the C64: The WIFI modem, created by Schema! http://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/12/03/introducing-our-new-section-in-scene-world-video-reviews-of-new-hardware-and-software-for-your-c64!/ Did you know what kinds of unique, useful and geekie software and hardware is released for our beloved Commodore?…
To make things more interesting, English Amiga Board and Lemon Amiga have teamed up to hold a competition involving five games where high scores are chased over several weeks until an ultimate winner emerges. To make the competitors life easier, Erik Hogan put together a compilation containing the games for the compo.It’s a Knockout! 2015-2016 Amiga CD32 Compilation has been released including the…
