Tag: Homebrew
It was way back in May 2017 that we first reported on New Generation’s efforts to bring Konami’s arcade classic to Atari’s classic line up of 8-bit machines, but the long wait appears to be finally over now that the developers have now completed the game, releasing it to general public to download. Coded from the ground up by the talented…
Retro gamers looking for a new title to add to their collection should be sure to check out ROVR, developed by Paul Jenkinson and generously released for free to the Spectrum community. An acronym for “Remote Operated Vehicle Recovery”, the game is a top-down exploration or ‘maze’ game where players must guide a tiny recovery vehicle through the bowels of…
As regular visitors to our site will be aware, we recently unveiled our very own database of homebrew and freeware titles for our readership and the wider community to enjoy. In the first of what we hope will become a regular feature, we’ve chosen to showcase a particular title that stood out amongst our most recent uploads, something which we…
As mentioned in our earlier post, today starts the new addition of our website Homebrew Games database. Over the next few months, you will start to see our team adding new Homebrew Games to the site on a regular basis. Please remember that any Homebrew titles we have listed in the database that are not free will always link out…
As regular readers are probably aware, all of us here at ViTNO are huge fans of the Commodore 64, so it’s our great pleasure to be able to present to you an exclusive look at Mancave – Wife Free Zone, a brand new game from the venerable Commodore scene group, Megastyle – we were keen to get the latest information on this…
Double Sided Games have announced that they will be porting across L’abbaye des morts (loosely translated to mean Abbey of the Dead) to the Commodore 64 and have released a sneak peak of a couple of screens. It was also unveiled that the general coding, graphics and sound will be worked on by Saul Cross and Wanax. Already available on other…
Anyone with at least one foot in the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) world these days will have already been hearing about something called the Game Master Cartridge (GMC). What is this device? Another whiz-bang flash-in-the-pan hardware announcement with little real utility? Or is this a good and useful product that everyone should acquire for their CoCo collection? Well, as the…
Fsuinnc on Atari Age has released a new work in progress game for the Intellivision called Planetoid. The game is a clone version of the classic 1979 Arcade game Asteroids. As the game is still work in progress, currently you are set to invincible. Each game lasts 90 seconds and for every planet you destroy you are awarded one point….
A few days ago we gave you the latest heads up on Allan Turvey’s playable demo of ‘Roust’ (ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust). Today, as promised we have some more exciting Retro News! For the pocket money price of only $2.50 (Is it 1982 again?), you can purchase the full version, so head over to highriser.itch.io/roust…
Early January I made post (along with some other ZX Spectrum homebrew releases) about Allan Turvey’s ZX Spectrum conversion of the 1982 Arcade game, Joust. “Roust” is Allan’s entry to the ZX-Dev conversions competition and he recently shared a fully playable free demo on the Spectrum for Everyone Facebook group! You can download the demo below, a full version is to…
