The term “interactive movie” causes gamers of a certain vintage to immediately adopt the fetal position and rock incessantly at flashbacks of terrible voice acting, endless cut scenes and letterbox window videos strewn with artefacts and extreme levels of compression. Shortly before the CD-ROM format landed and opened the doors to this new frontier however, the interactive movie is what the…
The Internet Archive has been allowing everybody to enjoy directly in their browser window many applications and games for the Apple II, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and some consoles like the Atari. Today, the Archive has announced the availability of Software Library: Macintosh, a collection of applications and games running on the early Macintosh models, like that 128K, 512K, Plus, etc. As expected,…
Ok this is pretty damn cool, and we all love dizzy :) “It’s an official 30 years anniversary of Dizzy games! We are glad to present a new long-awaited remake of Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, being developed during several past years. * New original 50 FPS engine, written from scratch * New original graphics, inspired by Amiga version * Unbelievable loading screen…
Revision Party 2017 takes place from April 14th to 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. As you can see the stream is live on twitch right now, get ready for lots of demo scene goodness. For those of you that don’t know, Revision is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries turning up to show off…
We have been spoilt with many awesome new AGD (Arcade Game Designer) games these past few months. Andy Johns awesome releases, Monty’s Honey Run, Temple of Lost Souls and not so long ago the great Ooze, as well as Foggys Quest by John Blythe and many more. All fantastic games with much time and thought put into them. And so the trend continues with…
Nintendo is famous for being behind on shipments of its most successful products, like the original Wii and more recently, the NES Classic. To get one NES Classic for the listed price at your local retailer, you would need to be very lucky or stay in lines for hours before the doors were open. An almost impossible task for most of…
Aetherbyte Studios has released a selection of PC Engine games in the past, such as Pac-Man influenced Pyramid Plunder and free mini-game Reflectron, but they have now turned their focus to the MSX with Inferno – a platform action game for MSX2/2+ and to celebrate the near-completeness of the game, they have released this quirky VHS-style commercial. Inferno should be…
Globus is a new ‘old’ release by Paco Lafuente. The game was developed between 1986 and 1987 and was unpublished until recently. The game looks a lot like Pac-Man minus the collecting of pills. Instead you have to try and get to the left side of the screen, collect your energy charge and make your way to the right side to discharge without getting…
This year, Canada is celebrating 150 years and releasing a commemorative $10 bill is part of the activities planned for this year. And this is vintage/retro how? You might be asking… The retro-gaming bit is that the Bank of Canada website showing off a beautiful 360 degrees rendered bill (which you can flip around) hides an easter egg that can be…
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga music disk. Aaron’s latest remix titled “Royal House (Can You Party)” is a nod to the 90’s and Summertime fun ;) All tracks were remixed by Aaron White, Graphics by Paul Kitching (CMAP), CiA Ocean logo is by Retrograde of CiA Group. (with a few edits by Kitty for this Release) Download from the…
