Waimanu Scary Monsters Saga is an unofficial fan-made game based on Sega’s own Pengo, released back in 1982. Disjointed Studio, a homebrew developer, has released this new title for the Sega Master System which is the third release in the Waimanu series. [youtube czDBR_bG_pw nolink] With 32 levels spanning 4 stages showing amazing graphics, this game is a must have for…
Ultimate Micro has announced that although the first run is sold out, they are planning to have a second run of the Mockingboard sound board very soon. There is no date set yet, but you can keep up to date accessing the store website and also its forum. Link: Ultimate Micro
So it’s not Star Wars Battlefront, but it’s the next best thing! This week’s episode of Sprite castle takes a look at Domark’s arcade conversion of Atari’s classic Star Wars arcade game, 1987’s RETURN OF THE JEDI. If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
Life on Mars is a new game by Kai Magazine, an MSX2 action-platformer game that features good graphics and music. The game will be released as a 512KB megarom cartridge. The requirements are MSX2 or higher with at least 128KB RAM/128KB VRAM (OPL4/MOONSOUND version) or 64KB RAM/128KB VRAM (FM-PAC/MUSIC MODULE version). You can check the game watching the video below….
This video is fairly old, from 2008. It was presented by Michael Steil at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, but it has resurfaced today on Reddit. It is still the best 1-hour long summary of the Commodore 64 hardware and the perfect introduction for those who want to learn more how the C64 works. [youtube ZsRRCnque2E nolink] There is also…
Retrocomputaria is a Brazilian retro-computing podcast and blog. The podcast is really interesting and funny and I recommend to those who speak Portuguese. For the rest of the people that don’t, you can enjoy this holiday special episode playing ‘Gradius Ultimate Collection’ released by Konami in 2011. List of the tunes: Morning Music Beginning Of The History Challenger 1985 Beat Back…
This is the second part of Ricardo’s article showing techniques to disassemble 6502 code using Redare, a modern tool that allows disassembling code in several different platforms. On this part, the author will show how to crack BC’s Quest For Tires since its copy-protection is easy to bypass. Viewer discretion is advised – Strong 6502 coding throughout the article! Link: Retro.Moe
Lupo Alberto is a game developed in Italy that has been published by Idea for the Commodore 64 in 1990, and Amiga in 1991. Amiga Power magazine game to the Amiga version a 78% score. The magazine review summarizes well the game as a “cut down Super Mario Bros. A scrolling, platform based landscape is patrolled by creatures with different intelligence and…
It’s a Pixel THING Youtube show talks about how the publishers used to sell their games back in the 80s: Cover art, magazine adverts and posters! In the 80s, and even early 90s, graphics weren’t, at all, the selling point of a videogame. Covers and adverts on magazines were! Let’s take a look at some examples on how to sell…
