Our friend and contributor, Madija Al-Husyni, has published a new video on her YouTube channel “MsMadLemon” where she plays Gauntlet 2 and 3 on the Amiga. This week’s ‘Nostalgia Time’ is from footage taken in the summer, forgotten and now found. My cousin and I played Gauntlet II and III two player, on the commodore Amiga 1200 using WHDLoad. This gameplay…
In Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio would get into people’s dreams to steal their secrets and, at some point during the movie, they would go into the dream’s dream in order to unlock more secrets. Although not as fantastic as the movie, the Internet Archive has made available (via Computer Applications, Inc) an Apple II emulator that is running in a browser-based Mac emulator….
A new text adventure game has been released for the TRS-80 Color Computer: Forest of Doom, a Fantasy Role Playing Game. Only the bravest souls enter, only the most cunning return! Defeat innumerable monsters to ransom the king’s scepter, stolen by the evil wizard and kept deep in the Forest of Doom. Your sword, shield and wits are your only…
Mega Cat Studios has released three new games for the NES: Creepy Brawlers, Creeping it Reel, and Justice Duel. In Creepy Brawlers is, in Mega Cat own words, a horror-boxing game where you have to fight several “movie monsters” who have different abilities. If you manage to perfectly timed counter-attacks will be able to stun the monsters and get closer to the…
CPCRetroDev 2017 submissions deadline was October 31st and a total of 29 entries made on time for the game development competition for the Amstrad CPC 464. The jury is now working hard to analyze and judge all the awesome games and getting ready for the award ceremony that will be held on next Friday, November 10th, around ~19:00h (CEST time). The…
I came back from the Manchester Play Expo 2017 with one of my beautiful walkman’s earphone speaker channel not working. I knew it wasn’t my earphones since this walkman has auto reverse and switching it to the other side worked perfectly on both the stereo channels. This indicating that the break was between the tape head and the circuit board….
RETRO magazine (not the British Retro Gamer one!) issue #13 is out, conveniently on October 31st! While normally one issue costs US$2.99, this issue is free if you use the code R137BX2NYFTT during checkout, which is a nice gift and good way to let the word out about the magazine. If you are interested in a Physical format for this issue,…
The PC Engine Software Bible website has revealed it’s final present this month. HuTOWN is a kind-of-game where you wander around a town, entering buildings to reveal special rooms based on specific PC Engine games. Each room contains icons that, when picked up, give information, opinions and screenshots of the game in question. There are also special animations that can…
To coincide with Halloween, this weekend (Oct 27, 2017) saw Netflix release its second season of Stranger Things — a sci-fi/horror TV series about a band of kids joining forces to battle supernatural forces in their small Indiana town — to a very enthusiastic North American audience. The first season is set during the early 80s and contains all of…
It was reported that wildfire in the Santa Rosa area in the US has destroyed the building that was used to store the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard, the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage with $538 in cash. More than 100 boxes of the two men’s writings, correspondence, speeches and…
