Category: Retro Gaming
After years of active development, 6502 Workshop has finally launched one of the most anticipated games in the retro gaming community. Starting today, December 12th, 2020, you can buy Nox Archaist for your Apple II. The game also includes a custom emulator so that you can run it on your PC or Mac with no hassle! Nox Archaist is a…
The Portuguese-speaking Clube MSX Magazine is starting the online pre-sale of its issue 11. The magazine can be purchased at the Clube MSX website for R$ 24,90 (US$ 5) plus shipping. For international shipping, the buyer has to follow the link https://www.clubemsx.com.br/international-shipping What is in issue #11? Every issue of Clube MSX includes a few bonuses, and #11 is no…
River Raid was, alongside Missile Command and Enduro, one of the games I played the most on my Atari 2600. The thrill of trying to go just a little ahead and get that another bridge and the frustration of dying when going through some of the narrower paths just kept me going back and replay the game many, many times….
I know many people don’t read as much anymore in this current digital age and the Short Attention Span problem the Internet brought us is likely one of the main culprits (get off my lawn, you hooligans!). However, we all love video games. If they are retro-games even more, maybe you would be interested in this bundle. StoryBundle, a Humble-bundle…
Always seen as the older poor cousin of the Commodore 64, the VIC-20 games are often underestimated by those that are not familiar with the machine. Back in the day, the VIC-20 had excellent games, and nowadays, a vibrant and active community keeps releasing high-quality homebrew for the machine. One of the most recent examples of that is Overthrown, a…
Badgerpunch Games has teamed up with a group of seasoned retro games develop and are offering a good deal with The C64 Xmas Bundle, consisting of nothing less than 15 games for your C64. This bundle combines holiday-themed games and other recent paid and free games. For anyone looking for a collection of lovingly crafted escapes into yesterday’s hardware, there…
After extending the deadline until November 23rd, Yandex Retro Games Battle 2020, the largest game development competition dedicated to the ZX Spectrum, enters the voting phase and publishes all fifteen games that are running to win the best ZX Spectrum game of 2020. Results of the competition will be announced on December 12, 2020. Games will be judged on their…
Jonathan Cauldwell, the father of the Arcade Game Designer and the Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer, wrote me this morning to tell me he has just released a custom ZX Spectrum ROM that runs AGD, freeing up the entire Spectrum RAM for users’ games. Because of that, games can naturally be much bigger than before. The new ROM is written from…
The 2020 edition of the already traditional Amstrad CPC game development competition, CPCRetroDev, is over, and the Universidad de Alicante has announced the winners! The best game is The abduction of Oscar Z by the group Dreamin’Bits. The game also got the special prizes for Gominolas Mention (Best Music) and Pablo Ariza Mention (best Technical Development and Artificial Intelligence). The…
Picaro Games has released a new game for the Commodore 64 that you have to play. Juanje Juega in Sinverland is a platform game where each level pays homage to classic arcade games. It features 23 levels where games like Pong, Pac-Man, E.T, Chuckie are not only the background of the levels but part of the game itself, either as…
