Vince Weaver was already news here on ViTNO when he showed us the excellent Myst demake for the Apple II using double lores graphics. Now he has done again, releasing an impressive proof of concept of The Secret of Monkey Island running on the same Apple II computers. It all started when Vince decided to play the Secret of Monkey…
Mashdy Games has just released Pitkat is a new puzzle game for the Atari 2600. The game is available as a free download (link at the end). The game is based on Pitman for the Gameboy, which was based on a game created for the Sharp MZ-700. This Atari 2600 version was created by Marco Johannes, Dyfed Hitchings, and Sharemhel…
Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, Stoker, Alien Neoplasma, and many more. All that…
To promote NESmaker and grow its userbase, The New 8-bit Heroes held a game development competition during the summer. The 2020 Byte-Off was a month-long game development competition where NESmaker users create brand new demos for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now that the competition is over, all the game demos are now available. You can play them directly in…
Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
Independent retro development studio Green Boy Games release their 8-bit point and click adventure Where Is My Body? on Nintendo Game Boy today. If the name of the studio or the game seems familiar, that is because we featured in one of our Community Showcases back in July! In the game, a hand becomes conscious due to the experiment of Dr. Pentagon….
Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500! So yes, it looks like 2021 will bring a “THE”…
It is not every day that we have a Commodore 128 release, so I am very excited about Volley for Two, an action-packed volleyball game for two players created by Jonas Hultén (Programming), Anders Larsson (Graphics), and Mikkel Hastrup (Music and SFX). Make sure to read Jonas’ interview below! Inspired by the old DOS game Arcade Volleyball from 1987, Volley…
Double Sided Games has announced that the ‘Match 3’ style puzzle game, Vegetables Deluxe will soon be available for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore VIC-20. The premise behind the Vegetables Deluxe is to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and new shapes drop in from…
Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.
