Category: Retro Gaming
Ghost Town is an adventure game written by Udo Gertz with design by Peter Hartmann in 1985 and released for the C16 & Plus/4 by Kingsoft GmbH. It’s an adventure game where the player has to solve puzzles by finding items and progress screen by screen to the final battle with the evil wizard Belegro. The game is very unforgiving,…
ArsTechnica has posted a video where Jordan Mechner talks about the development of his most successful game, Prince of Persia. In the 20-minute video, he shows some interesting bits of the development process when he was a college student, including the famous technique to design the human-like animation for Karateka and Prince of Persia and tricks used to make Prince…
On a a short and sweet tweet, the talented people at Double Sided Games are giving away the digital versions of three of their high-quality games, in a away to help us all on these difficult times. These are difficult times for many of us, forced to stay home. We’re very happy to give away digital versions of Fire for…
Yes, today is Friday, 13th! If you are not superstitious and you are an MSX enthusiast, today is your lucky day! Clube MSX is starting to accept orders for its eighth issue. Issue #8 will have 40 pages full of MSX goodies, including a special article about MSX soundtracks and their composers; review for the games Shoulder Blade OUTERSPACE and La…
I have to admit I am a big fan of WebMSX. We have many good web-based emulators for different machines, but I find WebMSX the only one that I can really replace a desktop counterpart without compromises. Paulo Peccin just announced on Twitter the immediate availability of a major update of the emulator. This version 6.0 brings support for the…
Jäästä is a graphical text-based adventure for the MSX1 where you play a penguin and your objective is to buy a “hatching day” gift to your friend Paula. In order to do that, you need money you don’t have. There is where your adventure begins. The premise is simple and the game is short but well-executed. I’ve played the whole…
Dot Attack is the very first contestant for the 2020 edition of MSXDev. Released at Beuningen 2020, the game developed by the group N.O.P is a colourful gunfight two-player game where the cowboys duel. Only the fastest will survive! The duel doesn’t end with a simple fast draw because cactuses and other elements can be on your way preventing you…
Superb visuals and a quirky sense of humour make this retro platformer stand out from the crowd!
The once mythical Nintendo/Sony prototype console can now be yours, my deep-pocketed friend! The auction for the console found in 2009 is now live and the current bid is US$23,000. The story started in 2009 when Terry Diebold struck the best luck when he bought a lot of abandoned property of a former Sony executive of an auction and the…
As the first users start to receive their ZX Spectrum Next, they have already available an update for the Next Core, NextZXOS and support programs. The update brings all enhancements made after the Next got into production. In a recent Facebook post, Phoebus Dokos lists the changes: includes Lords of Midnight by Matt Davies (aka WAHH Industries™) AND Night-Knight by Mr. David Saphier…
