Tag: Homebrew Games

Dad and Daughter Team Develop New Retro Game “Stranger Things” in QBASIC!

Joshua Reichard emailed us today about a new game he coded with his 12 year old daughter. The game is called Stranger Things, and is based on the hit American science fiction-horror web television series you all know and love! The project was created on old hardware running FreeDOS and Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5. The game game consists of just under…

Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey For the ZX Spectrum 128 Released!

Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is a ZX Spectrum game that greenwebsevilla has been working on for the ZX-DEV Conversions Compo since September 2017. Today we bring you some exciting News that the game has finally been released! Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey is based on the Famicom/NES game “Gimmick” published by Sunsoft. The game is a side-on platformer with many levels connected to one main…

Are you ready for more Jelly? The Adventures of Jane Jelly, The Egg Diamond Released for ZX Spectrum 48K/128K

After all the awesome ZX Spectrum releases lately, you would think it would slow down a bit, but no, they just keep coming! Today we have more Retro News about the third instalment of Jane Jelly titled, “The Adventures of Jane Jelly, The Egg Diamond” which is an Action Arcade Adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k. Jane Jelly…

Sequel to Harbinger Convergence Released! Harbinger, The Void, ZX Spectrum 128

After escaping from the planet Tantalus, during the trip your ship was damaged by “The Void”. You must now take on a greater threat, the Space Pirates! Way back in October 2016 we gave you the heads up on an awesome game from Cthonian Godkiller’s (Apsis) for the ZX Spectrum 128 called Harbinger Convergence. Harbinger Convergence is a Sci-fi Arcade Adventure…

Commodore 64 Port of Spelunky Teased by Paul Koller

You may recognise the name Paul Koller, he is responsible for the awesome C64 game Luftrauserz. Over on Twitter, one of our many followers of @CommodoreBlog contacted us today and shared two teaser tweets by Paul. My #c64 port of Spelunky is coming along rather nicely, if I may say so… @mossmouth pic.twitter.com/7vr4VoU2kl — Paul Koller (@paulko64) January 25, 2018…

Mike, the Guitar, A New AGD Game Beta Release, Final Version Coming Soon!

The amount of ZX Spectrum releases over this weekend has been crazy, and here we are again with another new Speccy game! “Mike, the guitar” is a new AGD game by Sebastian Braunert. Mike, the little guitar, has a big wish: To play a solo! His favourite band is Nirvana, so he wants to perform “Smells like teen spirit“! But…

Remember Balloon Fight?, Allan Turvey Teases a New Speccy Version!

Balloon Fight is an action video game developed by Nintendo. The original 1984 arcade version was released for the Nintendo VS. System as Vs. Balloon Fight, and its Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart was internationally released in 1986. The game play is similar to the 1982 game Joust from Williams Electronics. My fondest memories of Balloon fight was on the original…

Psytronik Software Announces Two New Commodore 64 Games For Pre-Order

Psytronik Software has announced two new C64 games for pre-order, Steel Ranger and Pains ‘n’ Aches – A Knight ‘n’ Grail Adventure. Steel ranger is an action-packed run & gun arcade-adventure. Take control of a cybernetic hero and explore a massive world filled with traps, enemies and huge boss encounters. If you liked Hessian you are going to love Steel…

Rocky Memphis, The Legend Of Atlantis Coming Soon!

Stuart Collier & Trevor Storey have teamed up once again and have recruited the musical talents of Saul Cross to bring you ROCKY MEMPHIS , THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS.  Explore the ancient temple ruins on a quest to find the secret of the lost city of Atlantis! Use all your cunning and skill to search the rooms in the temple for…

Psytronik’s Organism and Legend of Atlantis in Final Testing!

Some interesting News has been posted by Trevor Storey today over on the Commodore 64/128 Facebook Group. Psytronik’s “Organism” and “Legend of Atlantis” are in final testing phase (99.9% complete). As with any C64 game on the Psytronik label, you “know” these games are gonna be awesome, and I’m confident you guys have been following the progress. For a final…