Category: Retro Gaming
MSXdev’18 deadline is February 14th, 2019, but the competition has already received its first entry: Burn Us. Burn Us by Carambalan Studios is a strategy/platform game targeting the MSX with 32kb of RAM. The game proposition is quite “weird”. You are a masochist part of a cult called “The Sect Givemehard” and your goal in the game is to burn yourself…
Sheep It Up is a puzzle game playable on any model of Game Boy (including Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player). The aim of the game is to climb upwards by jumping and hanging your sheep to flying velcro straps. The concept is simple, but the game rapidly becomes quite challenging. How high can you climb without falling down?…
Graphic concept artist Trevor Storey has been quite active in the Commodore 64 gaming scene in recent years working with talented coders Stuart Collier, Georg Rottensteiner and Achim Volkers to produce an impressive collection of new releases for the Commodore 64. Storey recently provided fans with an updated of their upcoming titles and confirmed: Organism is to be released in…
When it comes to racing games, it would be difficult for even the most discerning of Commodore Amiga fans to disagree that that the Lotus trilogy weren’t among the very best that the system had to offer. Developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin Graphics between 1990 and 1992, this was a franchise that showcased the technical capabilities of the…
The laser disc version of Road Avenger/Road Blaster was released in 1985 by Data East and Toei Animation. Most of us remember the more common Sega CD port by developer Wolf Team, released in 1992, also known as Road Blaster FX in Japan. It was also brought to the LaserActive and released under the Sega Mega LD format, this time…
The group Bitshifters has released a port of Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia to the BBC Micro. Project coder “Kieran” writes that After the original Apple II 6502 source code was recovered and uploaded to GitHub by the author Jordan Mechner, I decided to take it upon myself to port this to the BBC Master computer, given that it shares the same…
The C64 game scene is currently undergoing somewhat of a renaissance in respect to the release of new quality titles with original story content. Knight ‘n’ Grail would have kicked off this phenomena when it was originally released back in 2009, with its high production values and engrossing gameplay. Nine years on & we thought it might be time for…
Here at ViTNO, not only do we bring you the very latest news on retro games, we love to play them too! Going back and revisiting classic games from our past is all well and good, but it’s always exciting to try new games being developed by the community as well! One particular title that was recommended to me by…
Crisot recently announced his new Amiga game on the English Amiga Board Forum. SweepOut is a MineSweeper clone where you have to make the highest score, rule the hi-score table, and show the world how good you are! But beware, if your score can’t be beaten, it can be destroyed! To play this game properly, you need an online Amiga…
Some of you might remember Psytronik’s 2007 C64 game called “Joe Gunn”. A charming platformer in the style of Indiana Jones. You can now grab the digital download version for free! over on Itch.io. You are Joseph J. Gunn. Archaeologist by passion. By chance you stumbled upon an unknown pyramid in the desert of Egypt. You suspect it to be…
