Tag: Amstrad
RetroGamerNation recently held its inaugural Gamers’ Choice Award for Amstrad CPC games released in 2018, allowing players to choose up to 3 of their favourite games from a list of 13 nominees. Held across multiple internet sites, including VITNO, the poll was able to garner 225 vote submissions to allow a broad spectrum of views to be expressed. Well the…
poly.play Software has announced that they have opened up pre-orders for their upcoming release of The Dawn of Kernel for the Amstrad CPC. The Dawn of Kernel, developed by usebox.net (primary coding duties performed by Juan J. Martinez), takes its inspiration from classic shooters such Cybernoid and is set to feature blasting action mixed with strong tactical and puzzle elements set in…
Here we are again with yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section! Update #6 contains another 50 new Homebrew titles. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the “Homebrew Database” underneath the site banner. Don’t forget to take a look at the list below to see the new entries added. Also, if…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Fans of Amstrad’s GX4000 console might be excited to learn that a new, high-quality conversion of Capcom’s seminal coin-op, Ghosts’n Goblins, has been released for free over on cpcwiki.eu by the game’s developer! Those of us who grew up during the 1980’s will remember just how poorly so many arcade conversions for our humble 8-bit micros turned out to be, so…
We have recently learnt News of a new game preview release by Retrobytes. It’s our understanding that “World War Simulator Part II” will be released coincide the Amstrad Eterno event in Barcelona, from Saturday April 21st until Sunday afternoon April 22nd. The game shares similarities to Pandora’s “Into the Eagles Nest” originally released way back in 1986. World War Simulator…
We just received the heads up from MisFit (Creator of Cheese and Onion & Pentagorat for the Vic-20) that a new Multi-Platform game is coming soon called RodMän. RodMän is an Arcade game which mixes ideas from Pac-Man and Bomberman. As well as some new innovative ideas too. It’s still early days but MisFit shared some screens with us, and it’s…
Way back in May 2015 we announced a new game port called Duck Out (2D side-scrolling beat’em up). Duck Out was first released for the MSX and ZX Spectrum in 1989 by Dro Soft. The player controls a cartoon duck with a frying pan, who escapes from a restaurant and heads to the local park to meet his date with…
Back in October 2016 we announced the release of the Amstrad CPC version of Pinball Dreams by Batman Group. Today we have some interesting News from “Rhino” over at cpcwiki forums, showing a new preview table update called “New Nightmare”. Just like “Steel Wheel” and “Beatbox”, this new preview is looking fantastic!, we can’t wait to give it a spin! It will…
Roland v0.70 has been released. Roland emulates home computers Amstrad/Schneider from the series CPC 464/664/6128 for Linux und Windows. Roland depends on SDL > 1.2 and SDL-Image. Download: Roland v0.70 Source: rolandemu.de, github.com
