Noobs Review 11 :- Super Mario Land (Game Boy 1990)

Super Mario Land is Mario`s 1st outing on the Game-Boy, how does it stack up 30 years after its release?

MEGA65 – The most expected C64 successor will have a developer kit available for pre-order on June 18

The MEGA – Museum of Electronic Games & Art has announced that the first batch of development kit of the MEGA65 will be ready for pre-orders next week at Trenz-Electronic. This is a limited run aimed at developers who want to participate in shaping the final machines, which are expected to be released in 2021 or want to start producing…

ZX Spectrum ‘Espectro’ magazine issue #4 and the retro gaming ‘Jogos80’ issue #23 are available now

Starting this month, Clube MSX is taking over the sales and distribution of other great Portuguese-speaking publications: Espectro and Jogos80. Now you can buy the new issues of both magazines in the same place Clube MSX is available (including for international customers). Jogos80 #23 is a retro gaming magazine created by Marcus Garrett and Eduardo Luccas published twice a year….

Clube MSX #9 is ready for pre-order

Clube MSX, the Portuguese-speaking magazine about the MSX line of computers, has announced the pre-sale of its 9th issue. The magazine can be pre-ordered from today, June 10th through June 17th for the special price of R$ 21,90 (~ USD 4.50). After that, the price will be R$ 24,90 (~USD 5.10). This issue brings an interview with Renato Degiovani, author…

Demomaker – The Amiga years – The making of the best demos for the Amiga from 1984 to 1993

In recent years, I became more conservative posting about crowdfunding campaigns, not because they are not worth but because I felt the retro scene was somehow overflooded by many different projects. The increase is natural and many of the recent projects I’ve seen seem to be very good. This time around I’ve decided to make an exception to my own…

Applesoft BASIC now has access to an easy-to-use Double Low-Resolution Library

Starting from the //e enhanced, the Apple II featured a double LORES mode with 80 x 48 pixels in 16 colours. Although still blocky, the smaller pixels and full access to 16 colours brought new graphics capabilities for the Apple II. The only problem was that BASIC programmers didn’t have available easy-to-use commands to access this mode and with sparse documentation and complex implementation…

Noobs Review 10 :- Cannon Fodder (Amiga 1993)

War has never been so much fun….or has it, check out Noobs Game Review of Cannon Fodder, on the Amiga, and find out

Soldier Of Light – C64 and Commodore Amiga Review

The realm of home conversions is a strange beast, especially when differing software houses tackle the same game. Soldier of Light is the perfect example. Similarities run through both the Amiga and C64 ports but the amount of original content that makes it in, how that’s interpreted and iterated on makes for some subtle but important differences on how each…

Review: Reformation 3 (C64 & Amiga VGM remixes by Matt Gray)

We review the third installment of video game music remixes from Matt Gray!