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…
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…
