Category: Retro Gaming
Bounder, the classic 8-bit bouncy platform game originally developed and published by Gremlin Graphics back in 1985, is now available for iOS platform via Apple App Store. The iOS version of Bounder includes the C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions all lovingly re-created to a high standard so it looks, feels and sounds like the original computer versions but…
Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…
Announced last June at 2017 E3, the RetroN 77 brought some excitement but also took some flak from the ever-picky retro community when dealing with new hardware about old hardware :) Hyper developers have released an extensive letter with new and exciting updates. Shared by Scott Dayton over the Atari 2600 Homebrew Facebook group, the update signed by Dr. Andrew Steel, started…
Ricky Place has released an early demo of Bad Ninjas Vs Rick & Joe, a new game he is currently developing for classic Amiga computers. Despite being in the early stages of development, the demo appears to be shaping up nicely, taking inspiration from classic arcade side-scrollers that require the player to knock the stuffing out of various bad guys and…
Of all the games I played during my formative years, there’s one particular title that always sticks in my mind. Developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts for the Commodore Amiga and MS-DOS PC platforms in 1993, Syndicate was quite unlike anything that I had ever played before. Not only that, it also holds the unique status as…
Nintendo has announced that their Nintendo Switch Online service will be launching in September, with the key feature of providing access to a library of NES games adapted to the Nintendo Switch with online compatibility and voice chat, via an official smartphone app. Nintendo has stated that 20 classic NES titles will be available at launch, with the following 10…
It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…
Retro gamers looking for a new title to add to their collection should be sure to check out ROVR, developed by Paul Jenkinson and generously released for free to the Spectrum community. An acronym for “Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery”, the game is a top-down exploration or ‘maze’ game where players must guide a tiny recovery vehicle through the bowels of…
Beta 7a of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released. For more information about the game, be sure to read though our previous posts, and also the EAB thread link below. The final version will be released in the upcoming weeks, and will be available to download from the ViTNO Homebrew Database. ;-) Changes/Additions…
I was a happy guy when I saw the newest Kickstarter update from Henrique Olifiers, which I summarize here in this quick post. The case mould is being produced and it is almost ready to be used to inject the first ZX Spectrum Next cases, starting with a prototype to validate the mould. It looks like a very complicated and detailed…
