Tag: Homebrew
The Horace video game series was created in the 1980s by William Tang for Beam Software. The series comprised Hungry Horace, Horace Goes Skiing and Horace and the Spiders. Hungry Horace and Horace and the Spiders were two of the few ZX Spectrum games also available in ROM format for use with the Interface 2. The original Horace game, Hungry…
The adventure in the vastness of cold space continues. After a failed research mission the crew got stuck in alien spaceships. In the fight for survival they meet old friends and new enemies. It’s an emotional roller coaster between despair and hope. Experience the fast and complex action adventure in the solo run or with a friend in the excellent…
You may have noticed it’s been quiet here these last few days, and we haven’t been updating the News much. Well there’s good reason for this, we have been adding the final touches to the new improved ‘Vintage is the New Old’ website and we are coming close to the big reveal, which we hope will be before Christmas. I…
For some time now Javier Alcañiz and Carlos del Álamo have been working together on a new Amiga Shoot’ em up called EgoWings. If you’re a big fan of shmups, then you are gonna love this one with it’s super smooth gameplay, beautiful soundtrack and graphics similar to the 1989 Amiga classic Battle Squadron. There is no set release date…
Willy’s New Mansion is a redesign of Matthew Smith’s classic game Jet Set Willy created using the Jet Set Willy Editor v. 2.03 by John Elliott. The game can be played on any ZX Spectrum emulator or real hardware. The game is available in .sna and .tap formats. Twenty years have passed since Willy stepped into his mansion and realized…
Today we have some fantastic News about a brand new Atari ST Homebrew game by Cerebral Vortex. Crash Time Plumber is something very unique, combining the concept of Donkey Kong and Popeye. The game was presented last Saturday (12/11/16) at Silly Venture 2k16, the biggest Atari European convention held in Economic-Trade Schools in Gdansk. It placed first in its category,…
As promised, I am back with some more Amstrad Homebrew News. This time we take a look at Sir Ababol 2, Hire Hare and Outlaws. Sir Ababol II “The Ice Palace”, is the sequel to Sir Ababol by “The Mojon Twins”.The first installment was originally released on the ZX Spectrum (2010), then later on the Commodore 64 (2012) and also…
You may have noticed I haven’t updated much news this past week. I have been very busy with some important real life stuff, as well as working on some exciting future changes that will be implemented into the website in the very near future. We are confident you will appreciate the changes as and when they happen. Can’t really say much…
Hat Trick is a VIC-20 port of the C64 game with the same name. Requires 16k memory expansion. The game is one-on-one hockey with space-time anomaly simulation for extra fun. Two players are supported. The second one uses the keyboard or a userport joystick (see the readme for details). This is version RC1, Which now has music. Source is included. Download: hattrick_rc1.zip Source: Homebrew Heroes
Waiting For The Light is a great new text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. Not much to say about this game, it’s a text adventure, I’m sure you all know by now how these play out. However if you have a lot of patience and love to follow an interesting story, this may be exactly what you have been craving :) The…
