Category: Retro Gaming
Lasse over on Lemon64 Forums recently announced a new wip title for the Commodore 64. The game is called MW Ultra and is a reboot of Metal Warrior. There are four games in the Metal Warrior series, all of them a “semi-cinematic” style, with a blend of shooting, melee combat & stealth gameplay. A few words from Lasse.. Plans for…
Clive Townsend will be releasing the third instalment of Saboteur this year. As I am sure you’re aware, Saboteur is an absolute classic etched in our minds from childhood. The game was released on various platforms, but the most loved version was on the ZX Spectrum. For those of you that are somehow not familiar with this game, you take…
Francisco Téllez de Meneses is currently working on Prisoner of War, a new game for the MSX series of computers. The game’s existence came to light at the beginning of June when Meneses posted a request for assistance in creating the game’s music over on the MSX.org forums. Having been captured and imprisoned in a high-security military facility, the player…
Popular indie games Indie games site Itch.io has just launched it’s week summer sale, offering over 600 titles with up to 75% off! Whether it be battling monsters for loot in Rogue Empire ($7.64), or turning enemy pilots to dust in Starblast ($4.99), there’s a huge range of titles to check out. Gamers looking to pick up a bargain and experience some of…
Lost in Worlds is a new cutesy Russian platformer by Nihirash. The first (and hopefully not the last) game by coder Alexander Sharikhin, Lost in Worlds was created using the Platform Game Designer engine, which was released in 2005 by Jonathan Cauldwell, also the creator of AGD, currently the most used game creation engine for the ZX Spectrum. In Lost…
I know what you’re gonna say, “not another one”. Yes we have had our fair share of Retro books in the past, however, it cannot be denied that these books bring back that nostalgia feeling of a child growing up, and there is always more room for feeling young again. Kieren Hawken is releasing a new book titled “8-bit on…
ArcadeVision is set to release Risky Rick in Dangerous Traps for the ColecoVision console, a brand new 32K game which aims to pay tribute to Core Design’s Indiana Jones wannabe, Rick Dangerous. Coded purely in assemble language, the developers are keen to emphasise the amount of work that has gone into this particular game, pushing the hardware to the limit…
Psytronik Software are very proud to announce the release of the eagerly awaited Organism for the Commodore 64. Now available for instant digital download and physical cassette or disk pre-order. The backstory to Organism is that the UTS Heracles, a military grade transport container traveling through space on a 6 month journey to a military station located on the Outer…
Psytronik Software are pleased to announce the release of Rocky Memphis: The Legend of Atlantis in digital download and physical cassette/disk formats. The Legend of Atlantis sees you take on the role of Rocky Memphis who has to explore the ancient temple ruins to find the secret of the lost city of Atlantis. To complete your quest you will need…
In today’s retrospective, we’ll be looking back at one of the most memorable games from my childhood, The Adventures of Robin Hood. Developed by Steve Grand and Ian Saunter for MS-DOS PCs and converted to the Amiga by Alan McCarthy in 1991, this was one of the very first games I ever got to experience on my Amiga 500. As you…
