Scene World Podcast Episode #38 – Talking Sonic Mania and Sega with Fabian Mario Doehla

Joerg and AJ talk to Fabian Mario Doehla, “Mr. Sega”, about Sonic Mania, doing PR for Sega Europe and America, and whatever else comes up. Listen to it here: http://scene.world/mrsega

COFFEE KLATSCH WITH CHRIS HUELSBECK AT THE ARCADE AND PINBALL MUSEUM IN SELIGENSTADT, GERMANY!

  In 1986, when Germany lost to Argentina in the football match, Huelsbeck won the first place in a 64’er Magazine contest at the age of 18. Shortly thereafter, Chris began take care of the good tone at Rainbow Arts. Katakis and The Great Giana Sisters are now classics in the C64 game library. Also on the Commodore Amiga, Huelsbeck…

Get 2 PC Engine Digital Books for Free

The PC Engine Software Bible website has revealed the next gift to be unlocked in October. This month is the 30th Anniversary of the NEC’s PC Engine console (known in the US as the TurboGrafx-16) and the site is unlocking new presents every week. You can now download free PDFs of two books that were only previously available in print…

ZX Spectrum Next – Early October Updates

Henrique Olifiers has posted an update about the Spectrum Next updates. Here is our summary: Boards Production The bad: the board-only deadline has passed by more than a month and the new date is not defined yet. The good: all the components are now delivered to the factory, including the RAM sockets that had to be hand-spooled into a reel to so…

Debbie Reynolds’ Apple II for Auction

The world was struck with two sad news at the end of 2016 when Carry Fisher passed away and just one day after, her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Yesterday, 9 months after their death, it was announced that an estate auction will be held containing many items that help to tell the history of Hollywood. However, one item from Reynolds’ collection…

City Trouble – A great homebrew action game for the NES

  The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…

Typing-in a program from a 35 Year Old Magazine and a Chat with Its Author

Byte Cellar’s Blake Patterson has published a new post where he talks about his “task” for the BASIC month held by Reddit’s r/Retrobattlestations last July. He decided to type-in Pearl Harbor, a game from Electronic Fun with Computers & Game magazine, published in 1983. Although Blake “cheated” by not typing the game in the TI-99 directly, he didn’t go all wrong since he…

Commodore 64 game Sam’s Journey starts shipping in December (Updated!)

This year has been amazing for homebrew games for the Commodore 64, like the excellent Bear Essentials by Pond Software (actually released at the end of Dec 2016!), but Sam’s Journey by Knights of Bytes is probably the most expected game in recent times. You have been able to pre-order Sam’s Journey since July but now Protovision has announced that…

Watch the Live Stream from Tandy Assembly

In case you haven’t heard, the world’s largest gathering of Tandy / Radio Shack computer enthusiasts will be held this weekend in Chillicothe, Ohio, US. Tandy Assembly aims to bring fans of all the Tandy / Radio Shack computer families together, under one roof, for the first time. The organizers have announce that the presentations and events will be live-streamed…

Celebrate the PC Engine with 8 Hours of Chip Music

October is an important month for fans of the PC Engine. It reaches the grand old age of 30 years on October 30th, being released back in 1987. The PC Engine Software Bible webpage has hinted at several secrets to be unlocked throughout the month, and the first of them is a positively ginormous video of hand picked PC Engine…