The Crow Cousins (Daniel Henderson and Roby Sherman) have released a new graphic adventure for the Apple II, featuring beautiful low-resolution graphics using the double lowers mode of the Apple II. Murder Manor follows a similar plot and gameplay of a Clue game where you have to walk around, going to different places of the Screenhole Manor, interacting with objects…
Bitmap Soft is pleased to announce the availability of CPC Soccer: International Edition for the Amstrad CPC, developed by Israel Roman from Voxel Tower. CPC Soccer is a football/soccer simulation game that sees you take control of one of 20 international teams as you put them through their paces in either a friendly exhibition match or a knockout tournament consisting of…
The well-regarded ZEsarUX emulator reached version 9.0 bringing a foot-long list of new features and improvements, notably the addition to non-Sinclair machines like MSX, Colecovision, Spectravideo, and SEGA SG-1000. ZEsarUX is open-source and multiplatform, having off-the-shelf installers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry PI, and many others. Initially created to be a ZX Spectrum emulator, Cesar Hernandez’s program quickly extended its…
Now you can taste a Pokemon-like game running on a ZX Spectrum +3! The developer known as +3Code has created a J-RPG featuring ‘Poke’, a mutant cat that is very similar to the Nintendo’s most famous Pokemon. Who are we kidding, it is a 100% accurate copy :) The game was created using the +3 BASIC language and it is…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. So far we were just testing non-purpose brute force semigraphics block pushing, but enough to get a direction to explore.Next step would be to get that direction aligned to some game design. I certainly now know that my skills with BASIC will be able to cut for a bunch of blocks in motion, so I need…
Neil “RetroManCave” Thomas is well-known by the retro gaming and computing community, mostly by his YouTube channel. Throughout the years, Neil has conducted many interviews on his YouTube channel – a series of videos entitled Retro Tea Breaks that help to tell the history of the video gaming industry for future generations. Complementing the popular video series, Neil has selected…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03 . So we were looking at reducing the gameplay from fighting games referenced on the last post.I thought the arcade Pong (1972) connects well, let’s see, as a kind of combat game, pong sports 2 players each controlling its own pad up and down and they have to bounce back a ball. The ball…
Doug Turner has released a new game for the Commodore Plus/4. After more than 30 years after creating Icicle Works and Prospector Pete, Doug decided to work on a new game following the Boulderdash-style gameplay. According to Doug, The Pit was born of his desire to revisit Icicle Works and correct the mistakes he made back then, most notably the…
Quantum Sheep, the author of Jumpin’ Jupiter has released Last Train to Tranz-Central, a new game for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k. Although in essence, the game is a puzzle-platformer where you grab collectibles while avoiding the enemies, its setting conveys an old-school Run ‘n’ Gun arcade game, which makes it pretty unique compared to some other great recent releases for…
