Tag: Platformer
We had a chat with our good friend Retrofan over at Forum64 recently and he has sent over some fantastic “Exclusive News!”, regarding the eagerly anticipated ‘Bomb Jack DX’, an Arcade port for the Commodore 64. Retrofan has uploaded a new Beta 4 video to his YouTube channel and as you can see, the game is looking Fantastic! First thing you will notice, OneBitman has completely remade the Music…
A new year, time for a new release for the CD32, and another in the Publisher/Developer series, this time Graftgold, a independent developer that made some great Amiga games over a 7 year period from 1989 to 1995. The games included on the disc are; Empire Soccer Fire & Ice Fire & Ice CD32 Fire & Ice Xmas Demo Paradroid…
Lemming880 from English Amiga Board recently released a new Amiga game. Boxx 3 is a brightly coloured run and jump platform game that takes old ideas, new ideas and swishes them altogether with a pinch of Ami Love and the result is very nice indeed. Playing much like a Mario game (except your a green Ninja, or maybe a Robot?), you run and jump…
The Mojon Twins release yet another fantastic game, this time round we are blessed with a new NES game called “Lala the Magical”. In the ancient ruins (province of Badajoz) lives Lala with her teacher. She is learning magic but still has a long way to go. “Tell me about the Sky Palace” – asks Lala, and her teacher tells her…
Well it seems we are spoilt for choice when it comes to upcoming ZX Spectrum Homebrew games. Currently I am still playing through Monty’s Honey Run and I’m very much looking forward to the sequel, “Monty and the Temple of Lost Souls“. This post is kinda related to those two games, as it’s the next Homebrew title I would like…
The Bear Essentials is a collect-em-all platform game, released by Pond Software in December 2016. It was developed single-handedly by Graham Axten. The story is, that you are a bear that has been lazy for most of the summer, and that does not suit mama bear! She orders you out into the dangerous nature to collect over 300 apples for…
Way back in June 2015, a game called “Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio” was released for Windows PC. El Macbee over on NintendoAge forums has recently announced that Lukasz Kur (“Wonderland Dizzy”, “Famitale”) has started porting the game to the NES platform. It’s still early days yet, but we will keep you updated as the game progresses. For now though, you can buy the pc…
It’s been a while since we covered “Sam’s Journey”, a new C64 platfomer by “Knights of Bytes”. Today though we have some fantastic News, as Knights of Bytes recently updated their Facebook page with more game information and we are growing closer to a release date, as the game reaches the final stages of completion! While the levels of our #C64 platformer Sam’s Journey are now…
Twin Dragons is a very cute upcoming platformer by glutock for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is very near completion and is an entry for the NESdev compo 2016, which ends on January 31, 2017. What’s Working: Horizontal scrolling, Actors animations, basic physics, one-way platforms, Dragon’s fireballs, Simple enemy AI, Background collisions, Actor/item collisions, items/power-ups, moving platforms (horizontal and vertical), basic sound effects and 45° slopes. Left to do: add flying…
Defecto Digital have released a new ZX Spectrum port of their Amstrad game “Heroes Rescue”. In the game you play Fry from Futurama, who has to rescue other cartoon heroes from The Simpsons, T.M.N.T and Marvel. Things aren’t that simple though, many enemies from the same cartoon series will try to prevent your way to the top of the level. On your way to rescue the…
