Games That Weren’t has just announced that the collector Ken “Dutchman2000” Van Mersbergen has found and preserved the long lost AtariSoft conversion of Joust, a successful arcade game released in 1982 where you control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The game was ported to many platforms, like the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Lynx,…
Super Star Wars was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993, and was known as being a hard game, does it still hold up almost 30 years later?
Like many places that rely on public gathering, the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle was hit financially hard after it had to temporarily close its doors back in March. Unfortunately, the closure now is permanent. Early this week, the museum organizers announced that they made the very difficult decision to suspend all operations of Living Computers: Museum +…
Yazzie MSX Remastered is the fourth entry running for the best MSX game of 2020, contest organized by MSXDev since 2003. Developed by RetroSouls, Yazzie is a colourful puzzle-platform game where you have to find the best way to grab the gold while avoiding the enemies that get on your way as well as mines placed strategically to prevent you…
Holger tells us about his time publishing and writing books and software for the Amiga under Data Becker and later on other publishing houses. He talks a lot about the atmospheres and little stories and background about the times of computer book / software publishing in the 90s and throughout his book publishing today including the books for the C64…
The world is a weird place right now, and censorship of the press has become widespread. Reporters Without Borders have created a unique way to get around this: censored articles become uncensored books inside Minecraft. AJ and Joerg talk to Reporters Without Borders’ Kristin Baesse about The Uncensored Library, and how it, and Minecraft, is being used to bring the…
We check out the latest Spectrum release from ZOSYA Entertainment
This Sunday, TFW8B has shaken the retro computer community with the announcement of a new retro computer, the Mini PET. The Mini PET is a fully functional 6502 based computer, compatible with a Commodore PET 2001N-32. It presents one quarter of the size and the tenth of the power consumption of the original 40-year-old computer. Main characteristics: 40×25 text mode…
Spectrum fans should check out Springbot, a new 2020 release by AJF Games!
