Originally released in 1987, gamers of a certain age will surely remember Palace Software’s hack n’ slash fighting game, Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior. With an eye-popping cover that featured a scantily clad Maria Whittaker and muscle-bound Michael Van Wijk, the game proved incredibly popular on most computing platforms of the day. Heavily inspired by John Milius’ 1982 movie adaptation of Conan…
The Mojon twins have recently released a brand new NES port of their 2013 ZX Spectrum game Bootèe. Bootèe is a very nice platformer starring Cheril, a semi naked girl in a boot, who can’t stop jumping! This is most definitely not your typical game, however you can’t say the idea isn’t original! As you can imagine the NES version is…
Rucksack Games are pleased to announce the release of Rubicon: Run the Maze for the ZX Spectrum 48k/128k, now available for download from their website. The backstory to Rubicon sees you playing as NYM who’s in his last day of childhood and , as tradition dictates, must take part in a right of passage to cross the Rubicon maze so…
It was way back in May 2017 that we first reported on New Generation’s efforts to bring Konami’s arcade classic to Atari’s classic line up of 8-bit machines, but the long wait appears to be finally over now that the developers have now completed the game, releasing it to general public to download. Coded from the ground up by the talented…
Only a few days ago, we announced that Andy John’s new game, Nixy The Glade Sprite, had finally gone gold, and that we promised to deliver a full review once the game was complete. We’re extremely pleased to announce that Andy has now officially released the game, and we’re very proud to bring you one of the first reviews of this lovingly-crafted…
Thursday we shared News about Nixy The Glade Sprite, which is Andy Johns brand new ZX Spectrum platformer. Today we have some exciting exclusive News to share! Nixy The Glade Sprite is now officially released and you can download it right now, here at Vintage is the New Old! Andy has also announced his new website for current and future…
When I first saw, more than two years ago, news about SymbOS, it looked like magic. The multitask operating system for Z80 machines was at that time, 10 years old and the version 3.0 was just released. SymbOS project is still going strong and the version 3.0 is available for the complete Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128 range (old and new generation), for…
Trevor Storey has provided a number of updates to the various projects that he is collaborating on with the Georg Rottensteiner, Achim Volkers and Stuart Collier. Organism is fast approaching a release date with the last round of bug fixing taking place before the title is ready to be unleashed on the eager C64 gaming community. Storey has indicated that…
Antonio Savona, the programmer behind the POSnake and the critically acclaimed hit from 2017 PlanetGolf, has just announced that is resuming development on a platform shooter game for the Commodore 64 titled Guy in a Vest. Savona teased the C64 community with glimpses of some impressive looking early graphics for the game produced by Saul Cross back in November 2017…
Mine Sweep Mini is a Minesweeper clone for the Vic-20, I’m sure you all remember the original Minesweeper game, so I will spare the details. The unexpanded version is pretty basic, so don’t expect too much in the way of graphics. You can download the game for free from the Cronosoft itch.io page. – Includes an enhanced graphics set for…
