After a bit of contemplation and casual polling, John W. Linville has announced that the second RetroChallenge for 2018 will take place in September instead of October. Well, I’ve suggested it, hinted at it, circulated it, and done everything but announce it. Now, here it is: the next RetroChallenge event will occur during the month of September in 2018. Henceforth,…
John F. Kutcher is one of the early C64 programmers programming games like Space Taxi and Solo Flight 2nd Edition in the early 80s. Space Taxi especially celebrating a huge recognition by its unique gameplay and accurate physics at that time as well as digitized speech! In this interview, he talks about his career from starting to work for a…
The ROM hacking community is often a source of interesting news in the homebrew gaming scene, so we were intrigued to learn of an English translation patch recently made available for Magic Knight Rayearth, a JRPG released in 1994 for the Sega Game Gear. The game debuted in Japan (including a red, branded edition of the console), and with no English…
Retrogamers looking to immerse themselves in the history of Atari video games should be interested to know that a new book dedicated to the subject has been announced. The Unofficial Atari Visual History is a new work from Darren “Greyfox” Doyle, also known for the ‘Atari Gamer‘ range of magazines. Available in hardback and paperback editions, the new book aims to cover a significant…
Indie development studio, Super Icon Ltd, has unveiled Super Life of Pixel for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita consoles. The game is an enhanced and updated version of the studio’s earlier title, Life of Pixel. Receiving many positive reviews at the time of release, the game was a lovingly nostalgic tribute to multiple generations of iconic computers and gaming consoles, spanning generations…
RGCD and Psytronik Software are pleased to announce the release of Yoomp! 64 for the Commodore 64. Developed by Zbigniew Ross and featuring sound by Michal Brzeski, Yoomp! 64 is a Commodore 64 port of the Atari XE/XL indie arcade game Yoomp! where you bounce a ball through 23 three-dimensional textured tubes and collect as many points as you can…
Game developers and musicians looking to infuse their projects with dynamic and engaging sound should pay close attention to NextDAW, a digital workstation solution created specifically for the Spectrum Next. Created by veteran musician of the 8-bit computing scene, Gari Biasillo (Target Renegade, Joe Blade), this new package aims to provide Next developers with a modern, easy-to-use digital audio workstation. Supporting…
Of all the coin-op classics to grace the arcades in the late 1980s, there is one in particular that I remember more fondly than any other. Upon entering any arcade, I would always make a point of searching for existence for this particular game. Much like a celestial body caught in the body of a planet’s gravitational field, the lure of…
Thalamus Digital Publishing are pleased to announce the digital launch of Hunter’s Moon Remastered for the Commodore 64. Hunter’s Moon is a strategic shoot’em up game originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, developed by Martin Walker with music composition provided by Matt Grey. The game received critical acclaim when reviewed by Zzap!64 and became one of the C64’s…
The latest chapter of the intriguing ZX Spectrum Vega + saga has been written with an actual unit confirmed to have made its way to a backer. Retro Computers announced last Friday, on their Facebook page, that there were going to immediately start shipping the first 400 units to ‘backers who had asked to received their unit without the 1,000 game…
