Back in the late 80`s there was a phenomenon about to launch in the UK, (No i`m not talking about shell suits) i`m talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (In the UK the Ninja was replaced to Hero Because…you know….reasons). Konami released one of the greatest arcade games ever into the arcade in 1989, the 4 player simultaneous play…
A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….
Protovision is pleased to announced that pre-orders are now open for the limited edition release of Vega for the Commodore 64. Vega is a horizontal shooter that has its origins in a popular 2017 scene demo. Utilising the original impressive PETSCII style graphics, Atwoods Studios brings the demo into a full gaming experience. The great looking Limited Edition collectors box…
Subcommander is the third entry for the 2020 edition of MSXDev, the already traditional MSX game development contest that this year is, for a change from previous years, allowing only pure MSX1 games to participate. With this in mind, Zoran Majcenić has created a colourful and fast-paced submarine shoot’em up game. The gameplay is straightforward: you have to destroy as…
Today I realized it is Vintage is The New Old birthday! It has been exactly six years since we registered the domain, which marked the beginning of ViTNO as we know today. The actual begin could be set in 2011, before my time, when Sarah also some other folks started a Commodore-exclusive website called Commodore is Awesome (aka awesome.commodore.me). Over…
It is always great to see when an article about retro gaming hits a major outlet. Yesterday, I found an article about game development for the ZX Spectrum on Gamasutra, the most prestigious game development website out there. Pedro Guida, an indie game developer that started to get interested in game development while playing and programming in his own Speccy,…
Steve Strowbridge has published today on his YouTube channel, the Original Gamer, a two-part video teaching how to emulate the TRS-80 Color Computer using MAME, the multi-purpose emulation framework. Although MAME is very powerful, it is not necessarily easy to set up for a specific machine if you are used to it, so Steve’s tutorials come to fill that gap…
The last week of April brought to great and completely different games for the Commodore Amiga. The first one will satisfy that urge of a quick arcade gaming session where you can jump in, play one or two matches, and move on with your life. Tiny Invaders is a nice version (homage?) of Space Invaders developed by Pink (Abyss) that…
I started collecting and creating a video of the new C64 demo releases on CSDb last year, but due to many reasons, the release schedule was inconsistent. This month, I decided to try again and see if I can create one a month, making easier for the viewers to enjoy all of them in a convenient way, without the need…
2020 has already seen a slew of new game titles for the Commodore 64 and promises to produce the best quality of games seen on the little 8-bit platform in 30 years. Let’s take a look at some of the more prominent releases thus far. Atic AtacHigh quality port of a ZX Spectrum classic. You find yourself trapped in an…
