Tag: NES Homebrew Games
The New 8-bit Heroes, creators of NESMaker have announced the 2020 edition of the Byte-Off game development competition. NESMaker is an Integrated Environment for PC that allows you to create NES games even with no programming experience. For more advanced users, the tool still saves development time while being flexible enough to allow machine language code to be added to…
1989 was a big year for me — Nintendo had taken North America by storm and just about everyone I knew had an NES console at home. It was the system that captured our imaginations — I was in grade 3 at the time, and we’d spend our recesses drawing elaborate NES levels (as seen in Nintendo Power), talking incessantly…
As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…
With a demo released back in April, the NES game Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure started its Kickstarter campaign less than a week ago and already reached and exceeded its goal. Since the Eskimo Bob sequel is already done and playable, the campaign aims to fund the production of the cartridges and the companion swag (boxes, manuals, etc.). Tomas Guinan is already…
The Mojon twins have recently released a brand new NES port of their 2013 ZX Spectrum game Bootèe. Bootèe is a very nice platformer starring Cheril, a semi naked girl in a boot, who can’t stop jumping! This is most definitely not your typical game, however you can’t say the idea isn’t original! As you can imagine the NES version is…
Alfonzo Arctic Adventure is an upcoming NES sequel to Eskimo Bob. Eskimo Bob was a Kickstarter project than ran last year, smashing it’s goal (CA$ 22,140 pledged of CA$ 7,000 goal). The game is based on the Eskimo Bob flash cartoons and features 64 levels, 15 enemy types, two playable characters, two support characters, and a fully functional password system….
After walking into the shrine, Cheril falls asleep. In her dreams, a voice commands her to find her daughters… The Mojon Twins quietly released a new game for the NES called Miedow (Cheril’s Nightmares). The game is a top-down, flick screen adventure where you control Cheril, shooting, dodging, jumping over lava pits, and solving some puzzles. The game is very…
Mega Cat Studios has released three new games for the NES: Creepy Brawlers, Creeping it Reel, and Justice Duel. In Creepy Brawlers is, in Mega Cat own words, a horror-boxing game where you have to fight several “movie monsters” who have different abilities. If you manage to perfectly timed counter-attacks will be able to stun the monsters and get closer to the…
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…
Eurogamer.net has published yesterday an article talking about the NES homebrew market, which is very active, even after 22 years after the NES was officially dead. The text is a treat for any aspiring developer that always thought about making a cartridge-based game for a console. And you can even make some money! “I think, in the coming years, you’ll…
