Tag: PSYGNOSIS
Everyone’s a critic. When Arnie’s Last Action Hero opened, it was unanimously panned by the movie press but still earned nearly $140 million at the box office. As such, its popularity meant that video game tie-ins were a foregone conclusion and hot on the heels of Sony’s takeover of Psygnosis, the game based on the satirical stab at the action…
The relationship between man vs. machine has always been an ever-increasing source of contention. Our ability to create devastating technological weapons has been explored many times within sci-fi literature, films and games. And in 1993, DMA Design and Psygnosis unleashed their vision on Amiga owners. Stomping our way into the first level, the first thing that strikes you is the…
Former Psygnosis dev Mike Clarke puts a piece of computing and gaming history on sale!
Mike Clarke is a famous composer who former worked for Psygnosis. Among his most known works are the musics for Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga or e.g. Lemmings 2 on the SNES. He speaks about his experience of doing “a little bit of everything” as a composer, coder, manager, etc from the C64 throughout the Amiga, SNES, etc. Lot’s…
Mike Dailly has put together a quick demo for the ZX Spectrum Next, showing what can be achieved using Copper. For those of you that have maybe never heard of ‘Copper’, it’s a display list processor. Most famously known and used on the Commodore Amiga, and uses very little CPU overhead. Below you will see a short video showing a…
Lemmings is a puzzle-platformer video game originally developed by DMA Design and first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. The game was programmed by Mike Dailly and David Jones, and was inspired by a simple animation that Dailly created while experimenting with Deluxe Paint. The objective of the game is to guide a group…
Good evening Retrofans! Kitty is back with the latest Amiga News from around the globe! The good old Amiga has seen a lot of attention this past week. Toni Wilen has updated WinUAE yet again to Beta 16, the First Samurai remake Kickstarter was cancelled, however the good news is the project is still going ahead. Risky Rick, a Homebrew take on the Amiga classic…
We usually leave modern games to other fellow websites, as they do a better job covering them, but this one is an exception. You will know why. The upcoming game to be released for the PS4 is a gorgeous modern take on the original Psygnosis title released for the Amiga in 1989. One of the nicest features of the new…
It’s a Pixel THING – Ep.#82 features Psygnosis, the Liverpool-based publisher that was created by some of the people that came from the defunct Imagine Software. On this episode, Pedro Loureiro tells the story about the studio and its legacy, going over the games published by them, including the first one, Brataccus and more. [youtube FCpXjibguLc nolink]
‘Grip’ is a futuristic combat racing game inspired by the Rollcage games from 1999 and 2000. The Game Hit speeds of up to 700 km/h while driving on floors, walls and ceilings – anything you can get your tyres on to keep the hammer down. And these brutes just want to keep on going, with GRIP’s specialised vehicle design and…
