Category: Retro Gaming
VCF East XII happened earlier this year and if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can now watch the presentations on YouTube. Presentations like the Vintage Computing with Raspberry Pi with Dave Test, Commodore PET Repair with Todd George, Apple II Repair with Corey Cohen and many others are now part of the VCF YouTube channel. We are thrilled to see that…
Arcade Attack has published an interview with Al Alcorn, the designer of PONG, which we can all agree, is a landmark in the video-game history. The short, but entertaining interview focused on the time Al started at Atari and was tasked to create the arcade that helped to create the video game industry as we know it. You can check…
A new text adventure game has been released for the TRS-80 Color Computer: Forest of Doom, a Fantasy Role Playing Game. Only the bravest souls enter, only the most cunning return! Defeat innumerable monsters to ransom the king’s scepter, stolen by the evil wizard and kept deep in the Forest of Doom. Your sword, shield and wits are your only…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
RETRO magazine (not the British Retro Gamer one!) issue #13 is out, conveniently on October 31st! While normally one issue costs US$2.99, this issue is free if you use the code R137BX2NYFTT during checkout, which is a nice gift and good way to let the word out about the magazine. If you are interested in a Physical format for this issue,…
To coincide with Halloween, this weekend (Oct 27, 2017) saw Netflix release its second season of Stranger Things — a sci-fi/horror TV series about a band of kids joining forces to battle supernatural forces in their small Indiana town — to a very enthusiastic North American audience. The first season is set during the early 80s and contains all of…
How about celebrating Halloween playing a high-quality ZX Spectrum game deeply inspired by classics like Cybernoid, Equinox and Druid!? Meet Sophia, a game where you are a young master wizard girl on a mission to save the Empire from destruction and humanity from enslavement! The game presents the following features: 4 levels 85 screens 20 different enemy sprites 5 tunes Final boss…
Retroworks has released the excellent ‘The sword of Ianna’ earlier this year for both the ZX Spectrum and MSX2 line of computers and if you have played the game, or watched a video about it you might have thought “How they manage to create a game like that! It is so good!”. Well, like Retroworks listened to your thoughts, they just…
Following the trend of having a browser-based tool that let you program, test, and share code (aka Codepen), Rafael Jannone from the Facebook group MSX Brasil has developed the MSXPen where you can add BASIC or machine language code for the MSX and test it right on your browser Window. The editor is not fully-featured (yet) but it already supports syntax highlighting…
The Atari 2600 will have three brand new homebrew games being released at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that will happen next October 20-22. The games are Super Cobra Arcade, Space Cactus Canyon, and Draconian. Follow the description from the press release: Super Cobra Arcade is a sequel to the classic arcade game Scramble in which the player must navigate their…
