Gamers looking for some old-school, hardcore run and gun shooting action would do well to take a look at Blazing Chrome, a new indie game title in development by Joymasher. Inspired by such quintessential run ‘n gun shooters as Contra III: The Alien Wars and Metal Slug, Joymasher certainly appears to be distilling the essence from some of the genre’s…
Anyone self-respecting Commodore Amiga owner must surely be familiar with Graftgold, arguably one of the most prominent and talented British software houses during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among the talented programmers and artists to work alongside Steve Turner was Andrew Braybrook, author of critically acclaimed Uridium for the Commodore 64, and many other titles; he runs and maintains a personal…
For this retrospective, let’s dial back the clock to 1998, one of the most significant years in the history for video games and for good reason. Valve Software would raise the bar with the seminal Half-Life, a first person shooter that broke the mould in terms of storytelling, narrative and flow, whilst Epic MegaGames would release the visually stunning Unreal,…
Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has created and released a selection of reproduction game cartridges for the Atari XE Video Game System (XEGS) console and other Atari XL/XE computers. What makes these reproduction cartridges interesting is the fact that they do not require a machine with expanded memory capabilities to run. This includes a selection of games that were available for the…
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, originally developed by Bitmap Brothers and released back in 1990, is a futuristic cyberpunk themed sports game that combined elements from both Ice Hockey and Handball, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful sports game of the early 90s era. In a shining example of what positive outcomes can be produced by…
I recently received an email from one of our readers who asked us… “Why don’t we feature more Indie Games?” This is a good question, and in the past we have in fact featured a few Indie titles and Steam releases we thought were fitting. However, over time, these kinda got pushed to the back of the queue. As most…
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
After the good reception that Volume 1 of Brian Matherne’s The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion, he surprised us with the second volume, already available at Amazon. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 2, covers another 34 game titles from 24 homebrew cartridges and ROM downloads that have been developed for the 2600. Printed in black and white on cream colored…
Randy Kindig and Earl Evans started covering the Sinclair ZX-80/81 in the last episode of FloppyDays podcast, mostly talking about its history and tech specifications. To continue the historical coverage of the early Sinclair machines, Randy was able to locate and interview John Grant, owner of Nine Tiles which was responsible for the operating system and the BASIC language shipped with the ZX-80….
RetroGames Limited has just announced that the Reset64 2017 Game of the Year winner, Galencia will be making its way to TheC64 Mini as a new free game. To be added as part of an upcoming firmware update, Galencia is a high quality single screen shoot’em up highly inspired by Galaga, programmed by Jason Aldred and released by Protovision, to…
