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…
Another ZX Spectrum game has been recovered by Planet Sinclair website, this one is called “Skeet Shooting”, which is an adaptation of Tire al Plato by P.F.P. Chaves (1985), and was featured in VideoSpectrum Issue 13. Download: Tiro aos pratos.SNA Website: Planeta Sinclair
The traditional Retro Challenge is happening again throughout the month of April. The contest asks you to “do something interesting with an old computer, and blog about it for a month”. It is a great way to take that old project from the drawer and finish it. It could be a hardware project, a computer restoration, a new application or game,…
Regular readers to this site will know that I recently reviewed the conversion of Street Fighter II for the Commodore and found it, shall we say, somewhat lacking. Amiga owners desperate for a decent slice of beat ’em up action were going to need to look elsewhere. Fortunately, that didn’t turn out to be too far, as it happens. Team 17,…
Way back in 2015 we shared News about a new game called Aviator Arcade II, announcing an early preview release. Aviator Arcade II is a shoot’em up packed with action and amazing graphics. After almost three years, the game is now complete, and Mark Hindsbo is working to finish the changes for release on cartridge and floppy disk, as announced by…
Released in 1985 by Datasoft, Zorro is an arcade platform game based on Johnston McCulley’s masked vigilante, released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad range of 8-bit computers. It’s another game that I remember playing as a child, but was never able to actually finish for one reason or another. All is not well in the pueblo…
