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Imprescindible para los fans de los juegos de 8 bits y del autor: by Fran Unepic Metroidvania estilo MSX2 donde los hijos de Popolon y Afrodita explorarán un castillo lleno de peligros y tesoros. Del creador de Unepic ,UnMetal y miniGhost. Una aventura retro de 8-bits, con intercambio de personajes (Pampas y Selene, 250 habitaciones que explorar, y todo ello,…
Have you ever tried gamebooks, AKA Choose Your Own Adventure books? You read a paragraph of text, then you get to choose what the main character should do next, and turn to different pages depending on what you choose. If all goes well, you reach a good ending. More likely, you don’t. A number of gamebooks have been published, most…
‘Prince’, founder of the group ‘Phaze101’, streams the assembler coding course English on Twitch and uploads the respective episodes time-delayed to YouTube. (The site amiga-news.de reports it regularly so make sure to check it out as well!). Let’s Make a Game – a separate tutorial teaching Amiga Assembly for beginners – Prince now explains with examples how to write a…
When The Classics Are Getting Stale… If you live in my world, you’ve sought out all of the classic platformers, beat ’em ups, shoot em’ ups, sport sims and arcade hits. And though I seldom get sick of any of them, my curiosities have started to wander. That has led me down a rabbit hole that I had previously ignored,…
Sponsors on Patreon got an early look at Chloe ports of two classic Amiga demos (Boing and Juggler) late last year, but they are now available to download from Source Solutions, Inc. Two years ago when we first reported on the Chloe, firmware updates were roughly quarterly, but last year there was only one update. Development had stalled, and efforts…
I haven’t really introduced myself since I started writing for VITNO back in October 2021, but my name is Adam Dorough (loves retro games, vintage technology and short walks to the refrigerator). I have been running the Retro Gaming Bygones Podcast (https://anchor.fm/retrogamingbygones) just over a year now and just released a podcast titled The Commodore Chronicles Podcast about my favorite…
I don’t know about you, but I hated school. I found it overly dramatic, full of bullies and overall drawn out. I didn’t get along with most kids my age either. I found homework and reports tedious and often figured out ways to avoid doing them altogether. I eventually embraced the “slacker” role starting in middle school, being satisfied with…
Even when I look back and think about the best game developers of my youth, my memories gravitate towards companies like Electronic Arts, Activision, Epyx, Lucasarts, Capcom, Konami and even Nintendo or Sega. However, many of my childhood treasures share an unsung name in gaming history, Dynamix. Dynamix was founded in 1984, but the founders Jeff Tunnell and Damon Slye…
Hey readers! This article has a sibling, an episode of the Retro Gaming Bygones podcast titled “Before They Were Monoliths: Activision”. Check it out at https://www.anchor.fm/retrogamingbygones or wherever you gather your podcasts (Apple, Google, Spotify, etc.). With revenue of 5.54 billion dollars in 2020, Electronic Arts has cemented themselves as the number two gaming company in the world. And though…