Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is probably the book with most references to 80’s pop culture, and most of them video-game related. It is already old news that he scored big when he sold the rights for a movie based on the book. It is also known that Steven Spielberg is the director (not too shabby eh?). What we…
Our leading games reviewer Robert Joy has sent over his latest retro review. This time we set the date to July 1987 in our Delorean and travel back in time to revisit the awesome Beat ’em up Arcade Classic that is Double Dragon! Vitno Reviews Page: http://www.vitno.org/reviews/
We have two 3 day pass tickets for PLAY Margate worth £30 each, and we are going to raffle them out in order to cover part of the costs to run your beloved website. To participate, send us £2.00 for one number using the “Donate” button on the right. Donate multiples of £2.00 to increase your chances to win! On…
This weekend, you can meet Sam at the Gamescom! The nice people of the German print magazine RETURN have a booth in hall 10.2 and have invited Knights of Bytes to show the game’s current state of development.Sam’s Buttons for the Gamescom Chester Kollschen is going to arrive at the RETURN booth on Friday afternoon and he will bring a…
Using my lunch break, I went to the local Chapters store here in Ottawa, and to my surprise, they are carrying the RETRO Magazine. I didn’t ask but hopefully this is not a one time thing. The issue available is #8 featuring “Everything Arkham”, with a cover price of 7.99 CAD. Without thinking twice, I fought my way to the…
Our leading games reviewer Robert Joy has sent over his latest retro review. This time we set the year to 1986 in our Delorean and travel back in time to the Golden Age of Arcade Video Games when Gauntlet II had just been released! Vitno Reviews Page: http://www.vitno.org/reviews/
Oliver Lindau creator of the upcoming point and click adventure ‘Caren & the Tangled Tentacles’ has posted some interesting news on the C64/128 Facebook Group today. Oliver writesMultiroom gameplay footage of Caren & the Tangled Tentacles (working title Lindwendture) and first time Kamil’s music and sound fx are implemented. Please note that the demo does not show all screens in…
After 2 months of work, lots of improvements and new functions, CPCtelera 1.2 release is finally out! This release comes with some very useful new features. In particular, Easytilemaps managing module will be particularly useful in combination with authoring tools (RGAS, Img2CPC) and tileset conversion utility cpct_img2tileset. However, the release includes much more than this. Check the release notes on…
Staff member Retrograde (Mark Turner) has sent over his latest retro review for Gravitrix, a C64 puzzle game by Psytronik/RGCD. Big thanks to James Monkman from RGCD for sending over a review copy :) You can read the review over on our reviews page, enjoy! Vitno Reviews Page: http://www.vitno.org/reviews/Website: RGCD
Aaron White has sent over his latest Amiga chiptunes music disk.C64 To Amiga Chiptunes Volume 6 contains seven more awesome classic remixes, check out the playlist below. Chuck Rock Bruce Lee Ivan Ironman Stewart’s Super Off Road Rock ‘n Wrestle Kickstart P0 Snake Space Harrier High Score Aaron has now released in total, fourteen Amiga music disks and you can…
