A few days ago, Allan Turvey kindly sent me over the “ZX81 Birthday Edition” of his awesome ZX Spectrum game Roust. Roust is a ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. You can read more about Allan’s game in our previous posts here. The new birthday edition, is pretty much the same game, except it’s been skinned over…
Beta 3 of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been just been released today. For more information check through our older posts about the game here. Download: bombjack_beta_3.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
By 1993, the Commodore Amiga was going through something of belated mid-life crisis. Though once a technical marvel of the computing world, Commodore had failed to invest or innovate in the Amiga’s hardware to any significant degree. Although the A1200 and AGA chipset had launched the previous year, the majority of the Amiga user-base was still using A500 or A600…
The World of Next website is a new independent resource for finding and sharing ZX Spectrum Next software. As the Next community grows and evolves, more and more software, games, demos and utilities will be written and this site aims to be the #1 resource. In time, you will be able to browse a large database, rate and comment on…
Yes that’s right folks! TheC64 Mini is very close to release, with only 12 days to go! YouTuber The8BitGuy, managed to snag one of these before release date. He announced on Facebook yesterday, that he will be uploading a video with details about everything you need to know about TheC64. So all your questions you have been asking like, ‘Does…
A few days ago our good friends over at Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News about a new ZX Spectrum game called In Nihilum Reverteri. In Nihilum Reverteri by Yerzmyey, is best described as an ‘interactive novel‘, where you read paragraphs of text, then make a choices, which can change the situation of the game. This appears to be a…
David La Monaca contacted us through Facebook today to let us know that issue five of his Italian Retro Gaming Magazine has been released. RetroMagazine is a free PDF magazine dedicated to Retro Computing. Inside, you will find articles about games, programming, curiosities, hardware mods, new software, stories and more! If you can read the Italian language, have a read…
One of the principle reasons why I enjoy retro gaming so much is that it affords the opportunity to indulge in some nostalgic memories from my childhood. Other times, however, it can be out of sheer curiosity more than anything else, which was certainly the case when I decided to review ‘Dragon’s Curse‘ for the TurboGrafx-16. I fear that the…
Chester Kollschen has been producing groundbreaking games on the C64 for over two decades. AJ and Joerg talk to him about his acclaimed new game, Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes & Protovision, as well as about his past, and what might be in his future (hint: it’s not a racing game). Listen to it at: http://scene.world/samsjourney
If ever there was a game that felt ahead of it’s time, it would be Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. Developed by Beam Software and published by Firebird in 1988, the game features Stan Sakai’s comic book character, Miyamoto Usagi, an anthropomorphic rabbit who travels feudal Japan as a ronin and occasional bodyguard-for-hire. This was one of the…
