Category: Retro Gaming
Yazzie MSX Remastered is the fourth entry running for the best MSX game of 2020, contest organized by MSXDev since 2003. Developed by RetroSouls, Yazzie is a colourful puzzle-platform game where you have to find the best way to grab the gold while avoiding the enemies that get on your way as well as mines placed strategically to prevent you…
Fabio Ritter has announced the release of his new racing game for the MSX. Endurance is a racing game heavily inspired by 1983 Activision’s Enduro for the Atari 2600, but with some nice additions that make it more interesting and fun to play. Endurance offers two game modes. On the enhanced mode, other than the original race-against-time gameplay, your car…
Update 5/21/2020: Shortly after the release of 5.0.2, version 5.0.3 is available including a fix for a bug that would display double characters. Mark Grebe has update Atari800MacX to version 5.0.3 bringing the MacOS Atari emulator up to date with Catalina. This update fixes some of the bugs reported by users in the emulator Github repository, including fixing the full-screen…
A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….
Subcommander is the third entry for the 2020 edition of MSXDev, the already traditional MSX game development contest that this year is, for a change from previous years, allowing only pure MSX1 games to participate. With this in mind, Zoran Majcenić has created a colourful and fast-paced submarine shoot’em up game. The gameplay is straightforward: you have to destroy as…
Steve Strowbridge has published today on his YouTube channel, the Original Gamer, a two-part video teaching how to emulate the TRS-80 Color Computer using MAME, the multi-purpose emulation framework. Although MAME is very powerful, it is not necessarily easy to set up for a specific machine if you are used to it, so Steve’s tutorials come to fill that gap…
The last week of April brought to great and completely different games for the Commodore Amiga. The first one will satisfy that urge of a quick arcade gaming session where you can jump in, play one or two matches, and move on with your life. Tiny Invaders is a nice version (homage?) of Space Invaders developed by Pink (Abyss) that…
The Digital Retro Park is one of the premier museums of digital culture. Falk Heinzelmann and Stefan Pitsch are the guys who started it all, and they’ve taken some time to talk to AJ and Joerg about the museum, as well as take us on a virtual tour while we’re all stuck at home! (interview starts at 10:05) https://scene.world/drp
