Since the start of this year the website has exploded with popularity and our daily hit count has hit the roof! (thanks guys!) We are overrun with so many emails and private messages sharing the latest Retro Game News, sometimes we end up playing catch up. If we haven’t shared your News yet, don’t worry, we will get around to…
Stunt Car Racer is a racing game released in 1989. Designed by Geoff Crammond, the game was available for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum. We recently announced News about a new Atari 8-Bit Port, and now it looks like a new Atari Jaguar version is on the way too! Check out the early…
Checking our inbox today, we received an email from Marco, announcing some lovely News that Tower 57 has been released for AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS and AROS! Previously the game was a Kickstarter success which was also released on PC. “In a dystopian, dieselpunk world, where Megatowers are the only enclaves of civilization, a group of extraordinary individuals is sent to…
The results for the ZX-Dev Conversions competition are in, and the winner is.. (drumroll) Mighty Final Fight! 2nd Place goes to Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors and 3rd place was Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey. [vsw id=”DCMdxXL0yQM” source=”youtube” width=”525″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]Final results 1.Mighty Final Fight 2.Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors 3.Gimmick! Yumeiro Odyssey 4.Retroforce 5.Twinlight 6.Parachute 7.Baby Monkey Alba 8.Bobby Carrot 9.Gandalf 10.ZXombies 11.Saving…
Developed as collaboration between Red Company and Atlus, ‘Bonk’s Adventure‘ is the first game in a franchise that stars Bonk, the prehistoric cave-boy. Initially appearing on NEC’s PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 console, the series would also receive conversions to the NES, as well as the Commodore Amiga under the moniker of ‘B.C. Kid‘. In this first adventure, the dastardly King Drool has…
Rhayader Computers is an excellent little website that sells some really nice Retro Game Memorabilia. They have some beautiful Retro mugs such as PC Engine, Asteroids, Mr Do, Scramble, IK+ and also a lovely Amiga mug with the classic King Tutankhamun Deluxe Paint image. As well as mugs they also sell mouse mats (custom too), button badges, keyrings and even…
Warhawk is a vertically scrolling shooter published in 1986 by Firebird software. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8bit, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST. In the game, the player must dodge and destroy obstacles along a vertically scrolling screen, at the end of each level, there are a large number of ships flying at the player from various…
The ZX Spectrum was one of the greatest 8-bit micros of the day and, along with the C64, was one of the predominant 8-bit gaming platform in the UK during the ’80s and ’90s. With any popular platform, publishers were always looking to increase software sales and one of the most popular and lucrative genres was the arcade conversion. Coders…
In the second in a series articles, I continue on my trip down memory lane as I take you through some of the computing and gaming experiences of childhood, taking in the 8-bit scene, the Commodore Amiga and much more! In the first part of this issue, we leave the Commodore Plus/4 behind and take a look at the most…
You may remember Monty’s Honey Run, Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls and Ooze. All these games are by Andy Johns, and all were very well-received by the Spectrum Community. Andy Johns is back with some fantastic News about an Arcade Game Designer title he is working on, in fact, it’s not too far away from a release! The…
