Greenboy Games is a one-man studio that has only one objective: make games for the classic Nintendo Gameboy. Behind that studio is Dan Puch, a hobbyist game developer that is passionate about the 4-shades-of-green little screen handheld. While my first idea was to write about his work, last week we talked and later he sent me via email some answers…
The New 8-bit Heroes, creators of NESMaker have announced the 2020 edition of the Byte-Off game development competition. NESMaker is an Integrated Environment for PC that allows you to create NES games even with no programming experience. For more advanced users, the tool still saves development time while being flexible enough to allow machine language code to be added to…
David Pleasance is the former marketing director for Commodore, and gained notoriety for his use of software bundles to sell computers, especially in the UK. He’s also the author of “Commodore – The Inside Story”, which detailed the internal workings of Commodore during its waning years. He’s following this book up with a look at the Amiga: “From Vultures to…
A new version of Atari800MacX, the Atari XL/XE/5200 emulator for MacOS is available now. This new version contains an important internal change, replacing the deprecated OpenGL with Metal, which will ensure Atari800MacX will be ready for the future versions of MacOS. Besides replacing OpenGL, the Atari emulator also had hundreds of functions reviewed and any deprecated API was updated as…
The 2020 Reset64 4kb ‘Craptastic’ Game Compo came to an end and published the contestants’ entries as a single package on itch.io. The competition hosted by Reset64 Magazine received 37 entries and based on the screenshots alone, the quality is very high. If you are not aware of the competition, don’t be fooled by the name! As the organizers explain:…
BlitzWays is a new free game for the Commodore Amiga, created by Sebastian Hartmann aka Wertstahl of Genesis Project. It consists in a matching game where the pieces you have to match need to be connected with a line that can only have two angles (or two turns if you will). This way you have to plan what pieces will…
While writing my previous post about the ZX Spectrum Next, I learned that one of the games I mentioned in the article had been released only four hours ago! Rite of the Druid is a text adventure game or using a more modern term, an interactive fiction where you are part of a small tribe, preparing to take part in…
With an emotional post on Kickstarter, Henrique Olifiers has announced that the first campaign has finally come to an end, with all ZX Spectrum Next units delivered to the backers. Everything started four years ago, when Four Henrique Olifiers, Victor Trucco, Fabio Belavenuto and Rick Dickinson embarked on this journey to bring the ZX Spectrum back to like, creating the…
Rockstar ate my hamster is a cult classic, but why?
WWF Wrestlefest is one of the most memorable games in the Arcade, but is it still worth a play today? Lets find out…
