Today, we’re pleased to announce yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section. With 40 new entries, update 5 has proven to be the biggest yet, and is packed full of exciting titles for you to enjoy. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the ‘Homebrew Database’ underneath the site banner. Don’t forget…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
The Commodore 64 gaming scene was provided with a pleasant surprise when, in late March 2018, Alexander Martinelle from Cogitare Computing announced that he was about to release a unique style platform game titled Counterweight Kate. In Counterweight Kate, you take on the role of a little girl (Kate) who wakes up one night to find that her toys have…
WebMSX is a fully featured MSX emulator that supports nine generic MSX machines using both PAL and NTSC. Developed using Javascript/HTML5, the emulator runs on any platform, and it was tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A new version 5.0 was made available recently with the following features: NetPlay! Connect several users on the same Virtual MSX machine over the…
As promised, here is the official announcement of the new book by Brian Matherne covering 34 of the best homebrew games available for the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion: Volume 1 is now available on Amazon in paperback format for US$ 12.99. Here is the book’s description from Amazon’s page: The Atari 2600 is alive and well, with new…
“Don’t copy that floppy”. Those who followed this advice issued by the Software Publishers Association were certainly in the minority, and the supporting music video didn’t exactly help the cause. Here in the UK it was the full page adverts from FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) who tried to scare us into binning any pirated software and grass up our…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Since it’s launch at the beginning of April 2018, our homebrew gaming database has gone from strength to strength with almost 100 titles available online for our community and site visitors to download. However, the best is yet to come, and retro gaming fans will be pleased to know that our team has been busy sourcing yet more of the…
One of the things I’m trying to do in this RetroChallenge is write a game for the Commodore CBM II series, while teaching myself Assembly. In my last update, I described the game engine I am working on, which is a sort of pseudo-3D FPS view mode (err, without the “S” part of FPS). As with just about any piece…
The good ol’ Atari 2600 is getting too much love lately! Michael Salzman, a prolific author of many books about games for the Atari 2600, has just announced his new endeavour, a monthly printed fanzine dedicated to the Atari 2600: The Unauthorized Atari 2600 Throwback Zine! In the interest of trying new things I am proud to announce my new Atari…
