Tag: Kickstarter

Scene World Podcast Ep. #198 – Music for the Virtual Boy with Tronimal

We are happy to welcome back chiptune maestro Tronimal! He is well-known for amazing Gameboy music albums and energetic live performances. This time we are talking about his upcoming Virtual Boy album and the process of making an album for Nintendo’s early VR attempt. The interview section starts at minute 44:24 Enjoy! Listen to/watch: https://scene.world/robonaut

Uncover the Dark Side of Commodore 64 in ’64 Nightmares’ Kickstarter

Commodore Nightmares

Remember those Commodore 64 games that drove you delightfully mad? The ones with questionable licenses, impossible difficulty, and bizarre design choices? Well, respected retrogaming author Andrew Fisher is turning those memories into a hilarious and insightful journey with his new book, ’64 Nightmares’. This 10-day Kickstarter needs your support! The book is already complete – all it needs is a final…

Scene World Podcast Episode #125 – Watermelon Games – Fonzie Part 2

Welcome back Gwénaël Godde aka Fonzie! The Watermelon Games chief talks with us about his plans to port the furious Sega Genesis / Mega Drive brawler Paprium to current-gen consoles and games business in general. Turn on, tune in, drop out! (Watch out for their Kickstarter launching soon!) Interview starts at 6:38 minutes https://scene.world/watermelon This time there’s also a video…

Antstream launches Kickstarter for cloud-based retro gaming service

Cloud game streaming services seem to be all the rage these days. With the likes of Microsoft, Google, NVidia and Sony pushing the development of their respective cloud-based gaming platforms, it seems that we’re moving ever closer – for better or for worse – to the reality of gaming-as-a-service. While these corporate heavy-weights are focusing on modern, triple-A gaming, you…

Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude Kickstarter launches!

Following a month of tantalising tweets, teases and promos, the crowdfunding campaign for Amiga Power – The Album with Attitude is now live on Kickstarter. Regular readers will know that we have something of a soft spot for Commodore and its groundbreaking multimedia machine, so we were rather excited when we had to chance to talk to Matthew Smith about…

Review: Reformation 2 – the new C64 remix album by Matt Gray!

After 18 months of blood, sweat, tears, not to mention late nights, Matt Gray has finally released the digital version of Reformation 2, the highly-anticipated second album containing remixes of classic Commodore 64 music. I’ve always been somewhat wary of handing money to crowd-sourced funding campaigns, but I made the exception when the Kickstarter for the original Reformation was launched…

Kickstarter launched for Checkmate A1500 Plus modular Amiga/PC case

The dedication and love that persists for the Commodore Amiga seems to know no bounds, and the number of projects dedicated to keeping the memory of the machine alive is seemingly never-ending! Thanks to a heads-up from our community, we were made aware of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Checkmate A1500 (2018 edition), a modular Amiga desktop computer case….

MindSeize: 2D action-adventure launches on Kickstarter!

Finnish development studio Kamina Dimension has launched a Kickstarter campaign for it’s new action-adventure game, MindSeize. In this new indie title, players assume the role of a private investigator on the hunt for members of a criminal organisation known as ‘The Ascended’, an enigmatic cult that intends to transcend the boundaries of mere mortality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708957978/mindseize?ref=project_link In a bid to bring an…

Last Ninja Remake Teased for Kickstarter…Again!

In early December 2016, System 3 Software made an announcement that set Last Ninja fans in a fluster when they stated that they will be celebrating Last Ninja’s 30th Anniversary in 2017 by releasing a remake to the Last Ninja series featuring Last Ninja 1,2 and 3. The remakes were to keep the isometric view and feature additional locations and…

Tänzer unveiled, a new crowdfunded release for the Sega Mega Drive

Old-school console gamers should be interested to learn that a crowd-funding project is currently underway, looking to secure investment from backers for Tänzer, a new release targeting Sega’s 16-bit Mega Drive console. Spearheaded by Mikael Tillander and Johan Agurén, information from the official Kickstarter page describes the game as a hack n’ slash platform game, taking inspiration from arcade classics such…