Retro Revisited: KKnD – Krush Kill ‘n’ Destroy (PC)

Released in 1997, KKnD is an old-school RTS with a wry sense of humour. Discover what we thought in our new retrospective!

2020 Reset64 4KB ‘Craptastic’ Game Competition is on!

How much silliness you can fit in 4Kb? Ausretrogamer, the Australian retro gamer e-zine, has announced the 2020 Reset64 4Kb game coding competition. As the previous editions from 2016 and 2018, the theme is “craptastic”, and we have to quote Ausretrogamer post as it explains it properly: “Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly”. My…

Toronto PET Users Group publishes World of Commodore 2019 presentation videos

World of Commodore is an annual gathering for …err… Commodore computers enthusiasts. The 16th edition happened last December 7th, 2019, in Toronto, Canada. I was suppose to go but at the last minute I had to cancel and was pretty annoyed to miss it. Thankfully, the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG), show organizer, just published the presentation videos on YouTube….

Galactic Tomb (Amstrad) – physical cassette available for pre-order from Bitmap Soft

Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce that the fun run’n’gun game Galactic Tomb for Amstrad is now available as a physical release on pre-order basis from their website. Originally released by ESP Soft as a free download in 2018, the Bitmap Soft cassette version differs in that it includes English translations. Galactic Tomb sees you take control of the most…

New Amiga WHDLoad Updates

WHDLoad offers a way to play Amiga diskette games from your hard disk. The following installers have been added up to 20th January 2020. 2020-01-20 new: Sol Negro (Opera Soft) done by CFOU! (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: Lorna (Topo Soft) uses less chip memory, stack relocated, manual included (Info) 2020-01-20 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) crash with parallel port fixed, quitkey for 68000…

2019 Atari Homebrew Awards – Get playing and prepare to vote

Organized by ZeroPage Homebrew, The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, Mark/Space | Project Argon and AtariAge, the 2019 Atari Homebrew Awards nomination phase is complete and now the voting will start soon. The award is given to homebrew games created by all Atari 8-bit platforms in 2019, including VCS 2600, 5200/8-bit in the same category, and 7800. The categories are: Atari…

Prince of Persia for Atari 8-bit gets a new update!

The amazing work by the Atariage user rensoup (and many others) continues and he has released the second playable level of the classic Prince of Persia. The update includes: one playable level (L2) PMG overlays with repositioning for the player (not for the enemy yet) preliminary music by Vinscool a lot more animation frames redone by TIX fix: random button…

ZX Spectrum Next is about to ship! Time to make sure it will find you home!

In its update #56, the ZX Spectrum Next team comes with great news, saying that the Next is about to ship and the first 500 units were produced already and are currently being tested. Since the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign was funded in 1987, or it was 2017? I can’t remember anymore ;), it is possible that many of…

Gamers’ Choice Award 2019 – It’s the Amiga’s turn!

Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) kicked off it’s poll for the inaugural RGN Amiga Gamers’ Choice 2019 Award over this past recent weekend with hundreds of new Amiga game enthusiasts lodging their votes to decide the winner. This year’s award nominations were open to all games (including ports, remakes and near completed beta versions) made available to the general public during…

Retro Revisited: Odyssey (Amiga)

We take a look at the charming mid-90s fantasy-themed Amiga arcade adventure!