Tag: Homebrew

Electroman – Amiga Conversion In Progress

Electroman Screenshot

Electroman is a work-in-progress game for the Amiga computer. It is being developed by Tukinem and is based on an MS-DOS game from Maciej Miąsik and Janusz Pelc. It requires an Amiga with AGA, 020+ CPU and 2MB of chip RAM. Link: tukinem.itch.io

Bitnamic Software announces `Laserbirds` – a new game for the ZX Spectrum

Bitnamic Software, a Portuguese-Brazilian joint-venture has announced its new exclusive ZX Spectrum release. Laserbirds is a shoot’em up game and your mission is to destroy aliens known as Ornitoids, a powerful enemy that has excellent earing and memory as well as great hierarchical organization capability. The enemy’s AI is a strong selling point of the game. The waves of Laserbirds,…

Retrobytes teases Jarlac for Amstrad CPC

Retrobytes Productions has released a short promotional trailer for Jarlac, it’s latest up-and-coming release for the CPC. The game is being developed as an entry for the CPCRetroDev 2018 competition, and things are certainly shaping up based on the promotional video released earlier this week. There’s no word on gameplay features or plot, but the gameplay features a muscle-bound warrior…

Precinct 20: Dead Strange, Alf Yngve Checks In To Reveal Further Details

Alf Yngve, the accomplished game designer behind numerous SEUCK based games (such as Border Blast 3, Bank Run and Forgotten Forest to name a few) has checked in with the VITNO team to provide an update on his upcoming game Precinct 20: Dead Strange for the Commodore 64. Precinct 20: Dead Strange will be a horror themed game that will…

Development of Atari game Culmins resumes

Following a hiatus of over 20 years, Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has resumed his work on Culmins, a puzzle game for classic Atari 8-bit computers. Originally a collaboration with Rodrigo Cabrera (music) and Nestor Mercado (graphics), Fuenzalida has picked up the reigns, hoping to finally complete the project. Talking with Atariteca, he recalls that he first began work on the game…

New conversion of Toki hinted for the Amstrad CPC

Eagle-eyed forumites over at CPCWiki have spotted early signs that a conversion of TAD Corporation’s Toki could be set to receive a conversion to the Amstrad CPC. AmstradGPP, a duo of French developers, recently uploaded a series of images to their Twitter account to showcase progress that they have made on the game. According to the post, despite being amateur…

Best of ViTNO Homebrew: Uwol – Quest for Money (Mega Drive)

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…

Hellbound, a devilish new game heading to the C64

Marvin Hardy recently unveiled an early preview of Hellbound, a new title he is working on for the Commodore 64. Posted in the Commodore 64/128 Facebook group, the preview demonstrates a number of rooms present within the game, including preliminary artwork, game design, as well as some of the mechanics implemented so far. We should point out, however, that the footage revealed…

Street Fighter II remake inbound for the Commodore 64

The official Commodore 64 release of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is well-known for being one of the most lacklustre conversions of the Capcom’s seminal tournament fighting game in existence, so we were excited to learn that a new, fan-based remake is in the works! Behind the planned reincarnation is Paco Herrera of PacoBlog64, which was originally conceived a…

ViTNO Homebrew Update #7

It’s been a while since we posted an update regarding the homebrew gaming database, but we’ve been working as hard as ever in curating the very best freeware titles from around the web. With 100 new titles added, update 7 is by far the largest we’ve published since the section went live earlier this year and we have no intention…