Category: Retro Gaming
The site Nostalgiamatica is offering a calendar for the next year that will please the Antic podcast hosts and the rest of the Atari enthusiasts around the world. The 2018 Atari 800XL calendar is ready to show off many Atari games in a 21×28 cm 200mg glossy paper. Each month will feature a screenshot of one of the favorite games,…
The Schoolsky Apple-1 computer was sold at auction by Charitybuzz on September 26th for US$401,000. I’ve found today an interesting blog post showing the steps to get the computer delivered to its new owner. The blog shows The blog also has links to videos with the seller, David Larsen, talking about his Apple 1 and also the steps to get it shipped….
Joerg and AJ talk to Fabian Mario Doehla, “Mr. Sega”, about Sonic Mania, doing PR for Sega Europe and America, and whatever else comes up. Listen to it here: http://scene.world/mrsega
In 1986, when Germany lost to Argentina in the football match, Huelsbeck won the first place in a 64’er Magazine contest at the age of 18. Shortly thereafter, Chris began take care of the good tone at Rainbow Arts. Katakis and The Great Giana Sisters are now classics in the C64 game library. Also on the Commodore Amiga, Huelsbeck…
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…
Byte Cellar’s Blake Patterson has published a new post where he talks about his “task” for the BASIC month held by Reddit’s r/Retrobattlestations last July. He decided to type-in Pearl Harbor, a game from Electronic Fun with Computers & Game magazine, published in 1983. Although Blake “cheated” by not typing the game in the TI-99 directly, he didn’t go all wrong since he…
This year has been amazing for homebrew games for the Commodore 64, like the excellent Bear Essentials by Pond Software (actually released at the end of Dec 2016!), but Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes is probably the most expected game in recent times. You have been able to pre-order Sam’s Journey since July but now Protovision has announced that…
Mike Westerfield, the founder of The Byte Works, has announced on the Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group that the source code for ORCA/C and ORCAlib has been released and available on Github. Mike first developer an assembler for the Apple II called ORCA/M, initially published by Heyden Software. Later on, after starting The Byte Works, ORCA/M was followed by many…
MSXdev’17 is still accepting entries, but only until October 1st! Maybe it is a little late for you start that amazing MSX game for this year competition, but thankfully, the 10th entry made on time! Sweet Punch is an action game where the hero, Cecilia, has to defend her village from the bandits and eventually reach their lair. “Just push the…
I believe you all remember the The64, a modern version of the Commodore 64. The project driven by Retro Games Ltd. is still alive and apparently, well. Although the main project is about a fully-featured C64, Retro Games has just announced the launch of the The64 Mini. The The64 Mini, as the name suggests, is a miniaturized version of the C64…
