Arkagis Revolution is a new top-down shooter for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with mode 7 style rotation. Mode 7 is the term referring to the capability to fully rotate the background, creating amazing effects, like the one seen on Arkagis Revolution (see video at the end of this article). The game website gives the tone of the game: “The story happens…
I believe we are living the golden age of modern hardware accessories for vintage computers with many options of SD Card storage, Wifi Modem, ethernet connections, video converters, etc. Some of these are commercially available using proprietary hardware, but many others were released as open-source projects. The advantage of the latter is that you can build the device yourself, or…
In a world of brown… so much brown… that no one probably ever wanted to play. AMIGArama takes a trip down to the beach with the long forgotten platform hero, Puggsy.
In the latest release of the popular podcast “Retro Island Diskettes” hosted by Neil from RetroManCave and Dr Andrew Armstrong from The Backoffice Show we hear the life story of veteran developer Tim Gilberts. Tim was responsible for many titles but is perhaps most well known for The Quill, a text adventure game toolkit which allowed anyone to create interactive…
50% off a digital download of Big Evil Corporation’s Sega Genesis platformer!
Double Sided Games is pleased to announced that they are now taking pre-orders for their upcoming Commodore 64 game, Vegetables Deluxe. Vegetables Deluxe is a match 3 style puzzle game, developed by Mike Richmond, with the objective to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and…
Can AMIGArama help the North make history against the South in this weeks historic show?
‘Punch the Pedal’. Just one of the iconic phrases from the original Chase H.Q. still lingers in the minds of many, as does the woeful Commodore 64 and Amiga ports. A slew of home conversions and a staple of many an arcade meant a tune-up and respray of Taito’s runaway success was incoming with an obligatory sequel. Special Criminal Investigation:…
Codemasters take on Pac-Man is in the spotlight this week, as AMIGArama looks at the Oliver Twins attempt at an arcade clone.
The already traditional game development contest sponsored by the Universidad de Alicante has announced the start of its 2019 edition. CPC RetroDev 2019 aims to promote the development of games targeting the Amstrad CPC 464. This year contest is giving to the best games nothing less than 1.650 €, divided in the following categories: Special mentions: 150 € – Gominolas…
