Category: Retro Gaming

“Espitenen und Herr Pimponen” – A new NES game by The Mojon Twins

The Mojon Twins are releasing a brand new game for the Nintendo Entretainment System (NES). Espitenen und Herr Pimponen is a colourful platformer where the player has to jump up the platforms, beating the screen scroll. As you jump from one platform to the other you have also to dodge or kill the enemies. Physics bring another challenge for the…

Retro Revisited: Manhattan Dealers

We go back to 1988 and check out Silmarils’ drug-busting beat ’em up for Amiga and Atari ST!

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 97: Bubble Ghost

Can AMIGArama survive the night in a haunted hotel for this spooky, Bubble Ghost spectacular episode?

New Book – Atari Projects: 50 Fun Projects for Your 8-Bit Home Computer

Jason Moore is the maintainer of the well-received website “Atari Projects“, where he presents many projects for you to do with your Atari computer. Today, he has announced on Facebook the availability of his new book, Atari Projects: 50 Fun Projects for Your 8-Bit Home Computer. “The goal of this book is to provide a series of fun projects to…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 96: The Great Giana Sisters

No Super Mario Bros. to be seen in this nightmare as AMIGArama visits dreamland with these Great Giana sisters.

Clube MSX Magazine starts a crowdfunding campaign for a Collector Edition of its first issue

It starts today (August 24th) the crowdfunding campaign for the reprint of the first issue of Clube MSX. With a pledge of R$ 40,00 (USD 10), readers in Brazil will get the magazine with shipping included. Other rewards include an exclusive Clube MSX t-shirt and mug. The magazine will feature a Collector Edition holographic stamp on the cover and also…

ZX Spectrum game ‘Quadron’ has been released on cassette!

Quadron is an excellent ZX Spectrum game that was released as a digital download last December, written by Andy “Cosmium” Beale in 1986-87 and never released until last year! If you missed that or don’t remember, we have even written a comprehensive review of the game. Another fun fact (for us!) is that Andy didn’t have access to the original source code,…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 95: Bubble Bobble

Bub and Bob join AMIGArama for the ultimate arcade team up in this weeks look back at an arcade smash hit.

Arkagis Revolution – A new ‘shmup’ for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

Arkagis Revolution is a new top-down shooter for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with mode 7 style rotation. Mode 7 is the term referring to the capability to fully rotate the background, creating amazing effects, like the one seen on Arkagis Revolution (see video at the end of this article). The game website gives the tone of the game: “The story happens…

AMIGArama Podcast Episode 94: Puggsy

In a world of brown… so much brown… that no one probably ever wanted to play. AMIGArama takes a trip down to the beach with the long forgotten platform hero, Puggsy.