Category: Retro Gaming
James Monkman has announced a new C64 port called Yoomp! 64. Yoomp! was originally released on the Atari XE/XL back in 2007. The game is a 3D reinterpretation of a 1986 Atari 8-bit game called ‘Jump‘ by D. Johannsen. I’m sure you all remember the game Trailblazer by Gremlin Graphics? Hold that thought in your mind, then imagine the same…
Steel Jeeg is a new AGD game by Francesco Forte. There are many excellent Arcade Game Designer games out there, titles such as Monty’s Honey Run by Andy Johns, Foggys’s Quest by John Blythe and Ooze, also by Andy Johns. With a lot of time, effort and perseverance, you can create a really fantastic game using this engine. Most of…
Another two ZX Spectrum Titles have been saved thanks to Planeta Sinclair website. King Arthur is a strategy game in similar style as Empire by Aralbrec, and Crusaders is an RPG Adventure. You can download both games below. Download: King Arthur Download: Crusaders More Information: Planeta Sinclair
Sarah Jane Avory is a self-published author and full-time computer games programmer. She started writing a long time ago, and self-published her first novel in May 2013. She’s a fun-loving person, and enjoys a good challenge, especially with writing. As well as writing, Sarah has been working on a Commodore 64 RPG game based on her series of books, “The…
After the massive success of Chris Wilkins Crash Annual 2018, we see another Kickstarter Project on the Horizon. This time it’s one for all you Breadbin fans out there! Zzap! 64 Annual 2019 Kickstarter will go live from the 27th April, and just like the previous Speccy annual, expect all the awesome perks, mugs, t-shirts and pin badges etc. This…
Jason Aldred is the creator of the awesome Galencia game for the Commodore 64. If you are following @JasonNapalm, you will see that he’s already working on the sequel, Galencia Khaos Sphere, which was launched as a Kickstarter project. Almost immediately the Kickstarter reached it’s set goal of £6,000 with 175 backers raising £11,027 to help bring the project to…
1993 proved to be a killer year for the Amiga, seeing some of the best titles for the platform released that very year by some best and brightest studios in the business. The Bitmap Brothers would release The Chaos Engine, one of my favourite shooters of all time, and Sensible Software were hot on their heels with one of their…
A new version of AppleCommander, a tool that manipulates Apple ][ disk images, has been released. The new version 1.4.0 brings the following changes: Updates: Migration from SourceForge to GitHub. This updates the boot code to point that out. AppleCommander would hang in an infinite loop if a directory wrapped in on itself. Fixed a filtering issue on Linux and…
I remember when I was 13 years old and I’ve got my first wristwatch, a CASIO that had a shoot’em up game. The game was simple, but I spent so much time playing it that the watch battery had to be replaced sooner than I imagined. LCD games are unique on the way they are built, with pre-defined images that are…
MSX is not well known in North America but is very popular in Japan, Europe, and Brazil. The hardware of the 1st generation is very similar to the Colecovision, and the games present great graphics and sound. To increase awareness of the platform as well as to bring new homebrew games, MSXDev organizers a competition every year and the results…
