By 1993, the Sega Master System was definitely a machine in decline. Having been supplanted by Sega’s own 16-bit Mega Drive console four years previously, and with the 32-bit Saturn console and 32X expansion due in the not-too-distant future, the future for the 8-bit Master System looked suitably bleak. Fortunately, there was still enough of fan base in certain territories…
AYGOR (The AY Great Original Resource) is a website by Marek Wolfgang Argent, which contains .ay files specifically with only proper author names, song titles and playing time. No tracker modules, no tape, snapshot and other work files. The music is from ZX, CPC and SAM Coupe. Marek plans to expand the .ay standard to other machines with Z80 as…
Hot off the Press! Beta 2B of Graeme Cowie’s Bomb Jack Amiga remake, “Bomb Jack Beer Edition” has been released today! Bomb Jack Beer Edition Beta 2B released, ADF in the link https://t.co/iUFIulS9kC @CommodoreBlog @Indie_RetroNEWS @pcotter72 #bombjack @RetroGamer_Mag #amiga #homebrew #bombjack — Graeme Cowie (@pushpoppwn) March 4, 2018 Download: bombjack2C.adf Download: bombjack2b.adf Previous Posts: Bomb Jack Beer Edition
Valdir is well known in the Portuguese Speccy scene, with previous releases such as ZX Striker and ZX Nights. He recently released a new football game called Eurostriker. With many similarities to Footballer of the Year, this looks to be a very nice homebrew game. I have never really played many football games in my time, except for Sensible Soccer and Kick Off on…
Continuing with the toilet humour, we have a new Commodore 64 game by Picaro Games called Fart Escape! Fart Escape is a fart and fly platformer! Another original and unusual concept in which you must use your methane powers, whilst the game auto-scrolls you though some pretty tricky traps and enemies. I didn’t get very far at all.. In the…
Scuttle Butt is a new game by Karl Hörnell for the ZX Spectrum. If someone asked me if there are any new original games on the ZX Spectrum, I would point them to Scuttle Butt. Please note, if toilet humour is not your thing, then I suggest you stop reading right now, as this game involves a big bottom and…
David Taylor has kindly shared a ‘New Old’ game for Windows PC. The game is called “Galactic Merchant 200” which is a simple old school BBS Door Game. Below you can read more about the game from David himself. “Back in 1991, in the province of Ontario was a time when BBS’s were the place to be, while exchanging ideas…
The Wing Commander series is my favourite action game on PC as I remember spending many hours playing them, sometimes attempt to complete a mission and failing countless times. While browsing my news feed this morning I saw that The Digital Antiquarian has published another extensive article about Wing Commander II which got me very excited! If you haven’t read…
We are living the golden era of retro computing, with all the activities happening around the World, including shows, new hardware and software, etc. There are, however, some examples of retro “something” that is in full activity nowadays but started when retro computers were brand new and survived all these years. Call A.P.P.L.E is one of the best examples of this…
Every now and then, the CSDb (Commodore Scene Database) holds competitions among its users. One of them that ended at the end of January was the International Karate Graphics Competition, which, as the name hints, has the game International Karate as the theme for the entries. The compo had around 40 entries and IK – Waterfall got the highest CSDb rating, scoring 9.6….
