Tag: Amiga
Find out by watching our new video series called “Phaze101 Retro Quiz”. In each video you will be asked a short question about a retro game and shown three possible answers. You only have a few seconds to guess and then the correct answer is shown. Don’t worry if you get the answer wrong … it will be fun to…
In our new podcast episode we are happy to have Nicola and Anthony Caulfield: a filmmaking team from London, responsible for awesome documentaries like From Bedrooms To Billions and its sequel The Amiga Years. We are talking with them about their new project The Rubber-Keyed Wonder – a documentary about the ZX Spectrum which is currently on Kickstarter. Interview starts…
By now I hope you have all have heard of the Amiga 68000 Assembly Course, if not please read and see how you can get it. First a little story and how it all started by coincidence. I had bought the book of Fabio Ciucci in Italian called “The Complete Course in Programming Assembly on two Disks”. I read this…
Have you been burnt by the 2015 keycaps Indigogo of Phase5 from Austria like us and many others? Jim felt the pain as well and went out creating his own C64 keycaps project. Having a long history in developing hardware for Commodore computers (C64 AND Amiga!) , if there is somebody who can pull this off, then this guy with…
We’re back with another book review! This time Merman takes a look at ARCADE IMPERFECT – a book by Jerry Ellis and Andrew Fisher, published by Golem Books in 2021 with cover artwork by Oli Frey. Over 250 coin-op games get their tribute here along with some interesting facts. Each game gets a page review, detailing the original arcade game,…
As the tag-line to Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi horror masterpiece, Alien, so eloquently put it: “In space, no one can hear you scream.” It’s a phrase which seems remarkably apt when it comes to the Alien Breed: Tower Assault, the last in a succession of 2D top-down shooters inspired by the movie franchise, although instead of the vacuum of space,…
Rockstar ate my hamster is a cult classic, but why?
Back to the future is an all time classic movie franchise, but how were the games? Lets find out.
War has never been so much fun….or has it, check out Noobs Game Review of Cannon Fodder, on the Amiga, and find out
The realm of home conversions is a strange beast, especially when differing software houses tackle the same game. Soldier of Light is the perfect example. Similarities run through both the Amiga and C64 ports but the amount of original content that makes it in, how that’s interpreted and iterated on makes for some subtle but important differences on how each…
