Tag: Retro Gaming News
Donkey Kong is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981, an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. In the game, Mario (originally named Mr.Video and then Jumpman) must rescue a damsel in distress named Pauline, from a giant…
GTW64 Website has revealed some interesting News recently regarding the 1993 C64 game Bugs Bunny Private Eye. A preview version has been found and thought to be dated from around 1991, with a different map, different graphics and the digging element from the original removed in favour of exploring caves and climbing up walls. The original release consists of four levels and this…
Richard Bayliss is a C64 programmer and musician and is well known in the scene for creating many fun filled C64 games, Richard has been running the website TND (The New Dimension) since 2000, which is a portal for all his fantastic releases. One of his latest creations is a game called Let’s Invade!, a new Space Invaders clone for the Commodore…
Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: FranticTen, Let’s Invade!, Let’s Invade! +7D, Norns’ Sacrifice, Maze Encounter, Lunar Avatar, Ghoul, Kirsten Birgit Said So!, Excess 25th Anniversary Collection 2016, Let’s Invade Preview +, Zombie Preview +, Panspermia, Petscii Converter 1.1.0, Super Stardust Preview, Violence 2: Violate, Sea Sausage, Petscii Converter 1.0.1, Gozerian Society, SNAQZ, The 288 Heart of the…
Joseman over at CPCWiki Forums, posted News yesterday about an upcoming Amstrad game called The World of Hire Hare. Not much is known about this game, there is literally no info on the thread, just a preview video showing a beautiful isometric game with a catchy soundtrack and smooth gameplay. We did a bit of digging and we found out that the game has…
Doomsday Lost Echoes is a graphical text adventure game in English for the Amstrad CPC which will be available soon, completely free of charge (4 days from writing). The game is made with PAWS and it’s official graphics patch, and to play it you will need 128kb plus a 3.5″ floppy drive or HxC floppy emulator. You can read more about the…
The Adventures of Winnie-the-pooh is a Russian Spectrum game originally released in 1996 by Publisher Softland. Inspired by the Winnie the Pooh books, you play a bear called yep you guessed it, Winnie the Pooh. The game is your typical walk and collect platformer, very much like many other Speccy platformers. From what I have been reading on other websites, people…
Containing all 10 of Bitmap Brothers games released on the Amiga OCS systems, along with the CDTV version of Xenon II as a bonus. Cadaver (Slave – JOTD) Cadaver – The Payoff (Slave – JOTD) The Chaos Engine (Slave – Wepl/Mick/Harry/JOTD) The Chaos Engine 2 (Slave – Mick) Gods (Slave – Wepl/JOTD) Magic Pockets (Slave – JOTD) Speedball (Slave –…
Custodian is the very first release for the Atari Jaguar by Piko Interactive. The game is an Arcade shooter in which you have to protect energy bases from parasites that are trying to drain it dry! Featuring 4 area levels, many weapons and power ups, and awesome chiptune music! Pre-orders will be available 2-3 months before shipping starts. The game will be manufactured with…
The cartridge version of ‘JAM IT’ is now available to purchase over at RGCD. Developed by Leigh White of Throwback Games, JAM IT is an arcade style 2-on-2 basketball game for the Commodore 64, featuring the most intense sports action and entertainment ever crammed into 64K! JAM IT supports 1-4 simultaneous players (via the Protovision 4-player adapter) and features opponents with realistic and challenging AI,…
