Category: Retro Gaming
Reset64 Magazine has been promoting the Craptastic competitions for many years and has already become a tradition. The 2022 compo has produced many excellent small games for the Commodore 64 since ‘Craptastic’ certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly. The theme simply implies that the compo was just…
The Brazilian magazine Clube MSX is starting this Monday (08/01) the pre-sale of its fifteenth edition. Copies – in Portuguese or English – can now be purchased through the publication’s official website for R$ 32.90 (around US$ 6.50) plus shipping. For international shipments, send an email to contato@clubemsx.com.br. The magazine is planned to start shipping the new issue by the…
The summer releases from Teknamic Software have arrived, the Portuguese publisher dedicated to supporting the publication of new games for old platforms, and to reissuing classics as a tribute to their creators and pioneers. With these three new releases, Teknamic has stepped up a notch in terms of the cassette presentation. Instead of the usual paper insert for the cassette…
How about a relaxing game where your objective is only to take care of and develop your farm? I know there are plenty of these games for modern platforms and mobile phones, but maybe you want to try it using your ol’ pal Amiga! Farmiga has been in development for a while by the Polish developer Tukinem using AMOS, and…
It’s time again for a new episode and this time we welcome Dixon Wu! He is the founder of the RETRO.HK Gaming Expo and an avid videogamer since earliest childhood days. Currently residing in Hong Kong, Dixon is an Entrepreneur, UX/Gaming Consultant + Designer, who has taken part in numerous mobile applications, online game platforms and startup projects as…
“Logiker” has been running some amazing competitions for people to show off their art skills using the low-res characters available on the 8-bit computers, including PETSCII (Commodore), and ATASCII (Atari). This time around is another chance for the Amstrad CPC enthusiasts to display their artwork in the 2nd AMSCII Compo! The compo is an online event and will run throughout…
Cave Crusader is a horizontal shoot’em up developed in 1983 by the Italian programmer Michele “Micky” Bina for the Atari 8-bit computers. Developed in Forth and Assembler, the game offers more than 110 screens divided into nine levels. At that time, Cave Crusader was one of the winners of the contest in the first edition of Computer Play, organized by…
ABBUC, the ATARI Bit Byter User Club, runs its traditional yearly software competition, and it is open to all Atari 8-Bit developers (no membership required!). As a general rule, all entries should be able to run on an Atari 8-Bit computers and submitted on a maximum of two unprotected 90KB or 130 KB 5.25“ floppy disk sides or ATR-Images. The authors…
To celebrate ZX Spectrum’s 40th birthday, Quantum Sheep reached out to some awesome Spectrum game developers who have very generously agreed to participate in the Game Bundle with all proceeds destined for charity. The bundle is hosted on itch.io using the “pay what you want” price (above $10.00) and gives you access to 30+ games for the ZX Spectrum. The…
The 2022 Basic 10 Liners contest is over and, once again, brings very clever and impressive programs that are hard to believe were made using 10 lines of BASIC, sometimes very encrypted 10 lines, but still an amazing accomplishment! Nothing less than 82 programs were submitted, giving a lot of work and amusement to the 8 judges, including myself! This…
