Balloon Fight is an action video game developed by Nintendo. The original 1984 arcade version was released for the Nintendo VS. System as Vs. Balloon Fight, and its Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart was internationally released in 1986. The game play is similar to the 1982 game Joust from Williams Electronics. My fondest memories of Balloon fight was on the original…
Psytronik Software has announced two new C64 games for pre-order, Steel Ranger and Pains ‘n’ Aches – A Knight ‘n’ Grail Adventure. Steel ranger is an action-packed run & gun arcade-adventure. Take control of a cybernetic hero and explore a massive world filled with traps, enemies and huge boss encounters. If you liked Hessian you are going to love Steel…
ZXombies, Dead Flesh, is a new flick-screen action survival horror inspired by The Walking Dead. You are a lone soldier left from your squad in a city swarming with the undead, after the zombie apocalypse. You’ll have to escort the few remaining survivors between safe-houses, to reach safety east of the city. Major Derring awakes with concussion. He drags himself…
Friday seems to be the day for lot’s of Speccy releases, as we see yet another new game appear on the WOS Forums. Jet Set 40-40 is a new redesign version of the classic Jet Set Willy game by Matthew Smith. With a lot of similarities to the original Jet Set Willy Map, avid Speccy fans will feel right at…
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 1993 for the NES just got a ZX Spectrum port! This game is a spinoff of the arcade Final Fight, but with a different art style, with all characters following the Chibi style (big heads and childish bodies). Developed by the Alexander Udotov (Sanchez), with graphics by Eugene Rogulin (ER), and music…
Allen Huffman is graciously sharing ways to speed up programs written for the family of Microsoft BASIC interpreters common on personal computers of the time that interests us, including the various flavors of Color BASIC. These ways all boil down to Modify your code to work around the limitations the BASIC interpreter inherited from its origins on systems with extremely…
A few days ago we gave you the latest heads up on Allan Turvey’s playable demo of ‘Roust’ (ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust). Today, as promised we have some more exciting Retro News! For the pocket money price of only $2.50 (Is it 1982 again?), you can purchase the full version, so head over to highriser.itch.io/roust…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: IK Gotham City In Fingerpori Style, Jake the Snake V2.2, Retaliate Preview 2 +3H, CCGMS Digital Paint 3.0+, D030 Tester V1.0, Pain In The Asm, Dig Dug Multicolor, Retaliate V0.2.1 Beta (Hotfix), Lemmings Loading Screen Re-Imagined, Find The Pussy, Axe of Rage +10DMHF, Cold Hirst, Lemmings +15DF [easyflash], Humppasauna, UFF +2TPDF [english],…
The BASIC 10Liners contest is, for me, one of the highlights of the retro scene and I am happy to announce that the 7th edition of the competition is already online, accepting new entries. This year, the organizers have changed a few rules after receiving some feedback from the previous edition. The most important change is that for the PUR-80…
Although Glen is currently covering a conversion from the arcade version of Defender to the Color Computer, he took the time to step back a bit and write an article that gives an overview of the process to convert an arcade game to the Color Computer. The post is not very long, and also is easier to grasp the overall…
