Tag: Homebrew Games
We rarely feature old News but I thought this one was worth a mention. Ichigo tweeted back in 2017 about a WIP Barbarian port for the Sega Master System titled Cimmerian. In 2016 a demo version was released for a competition held by SMS Power website. Visually the game looks amazing on the humble Master System, with crisp stunning graphics…
Sebastian Braunert’s new Amstrad platformer has been released. First announced on Facebook November 2017, Pink Pills is a charming platformer featuring a very cute looking dog called Moritz. The game features some well known tunes from the 80’s and also a fantastic rendition of the Beatles “Yellow Submarine”. Here, in his own words, Sebastian describes an overview of the game:…
PacManPlus over on Atari Age Forums started a thread back in April about a WIP version of Baby Pac-Man for the Atari 7800. For those of you that are not aware, Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid Arcade/Pinball game released by Bally Midway in 1982 and 7,000 units were produced. It will be very interesting to see how this port pans…
More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…
Lasse over on Lemon64 Forums recently announced a new wip title for the Commodore 64. The game is called MW Ultra and is a reboot of Metal Warrior. There are four games in the Metal Warrior series, all of them a “semi-cinematic” style, with a blend of shooting, melee combat & stealth gameplay. A few words from Lasse.. Plans for…
Francisco Téllez de Meneses is currently working on Prisoner of War, a new game for the MSX series of computers. The game’s existence came to light at the beginning of June when Meneses posted a request for assistance in creating the game’s music over on the MSX.org forums. Having been captured and imprisoned in a high-security military facility, the player…
ArcadeVision is set to release Risky Rick in Dangerous Traps for the ColecoVision console, a brand new 32K game which aims to pay tribute to Core Design’s Indiana Jones wannabe, Rick Dangerous. Coded purely in assemble language, the developers are keen to emphasise the amount of work that has gone into this particular game, pushing the hardware to the limit…
Originally a Commodore 64 game by Pond Software, Spaceman Splorf was recently ported to the Pico-8 platform. If you are one of the unlucky ones that have yet to sample the delights of Spaceman Splorf, then you are in for a real treat. We covered the C64 version way back in 2016, which you can read about here. Today though,…
Fans of Sega’s jug-eared, one-time mascot might be interested to hear that Domarius Games has just released a Alex Kidd in Pico World for the PICO-8 Fantasy console. For those unfamiliar with the PICO-8, it is a virtual machine designed and developed by Lexaloffle Games primarily as a platform for learning about, developing and creating games for a machine with…
Continuing our showcase of the very best games added to our homebrew gaming database, we take a look at a 16-bit title first released for the Sega Mega Drive back in 2013. Developed and released by Spanish development team, Mojon Twins, Uwol – Quest for Money is an arcade game released initially for the ZX Spectrum, with various ports and conversions…
