Tag: namco

Baby Pac-Man coming to the Atari 7800

PacManPlus over on Atari Age Forums started a thread back in April about a WIP version of Baby Pac-Man for the Atari 7800. For those of you that are not aware, Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid Arcade/Pinball game released by Bally Midway in 1982 and 7,000 units were produced. It will be very interesting to see how this port pans…

Tank 1990, A New Shoot ’em up for the ZX Spectrum!

More news from the fantastic Speccy website Planeta Sinclair. Tank 1990 is a new game for the ZX Spectrum, a clone of the 1985 Arcade/Famicom game Battle City, a Japanese game by the mighty Namco. Tank 1990 is a shoot ’em up with some strategy involved. There is also a Russian Speccy version which was released in 1995 by Scorpion…

Namco Arcade Classics Coming to the Nintendo Switch!

For those of you that bought a Nintendo Switch, you must be wondering where are the games? Well they are coming.. just not very fast. Yes there are quite a few Indie Game titles available for the system, as well as some cool Neo Geo games. I’m sure you all bought Breath of the Wild, but some hardcore gamers have…

Splatterhouse, 1988, Namco, Mini Arcade Review by Rob Joy

Survival horror. It certainly was. Taking shelter from the storm, you and your partner find refuge in an abandoned mansion deep within the forest. Safety at last! Safety, lets just consider that feeling for a moment. Out of the elements, a warm fire and hospitable guests, safety. Then let us begin. A scream is heard in the dark from your…

Dragon Spirit SE, Enhanced Amiga Hack by earok

earok has released a quick hack of Dragon Spirit, fixing both the Atari ST palette issues as well as minifying the Dragon that previously obscured part of the playfield. Changes The values of every palette entry doubled to resolve the bug with the Atari ST version Dragon at the bottom right hand corner of the screen shrunk (it no longer obscures…

'ARC-AID' event being held in Cambridge, UK on June 13th

The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…