Tag: Retro Gaming
Way back in 2015 an Intellivision version of Defender of the Crown was announced on Atari Age. I’m sure most of you will fondly remember the Amiga version and how much of an impact it made on us back in 1986. Released on multiple systems including the Atari ST, Commodore 64 and even the Game Boy Advance, Defender of the…
Sebastian Braunert’s new Amstrad platformer has been released. First announced on Facebook November 2017, Pink Pills is a charming platformer featuring a very cute looking dog called Moritz. The game features some well known tunes from the 80’s and also a fantastic rendition of the Beatles “Yellow Submarine”. Here, in his own words, Sebastian describes an overview of the game:…
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…
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…
Toni Wilen has released WinUAE 4.0.0 Final. WinUAE is currently the best Amiga emulation available to date and if used alongside Classic Workbench and WHDLoad you can achieve a really great Amiga hard drive experience like the picture above. Download from the link below and don’t forget to check all the new features in the release notes, have fun! :) Download: WinUAE Website Release Notes: English…
Lasse over on Lemon64 Forums recently announced a new wip title for the Commodore 64. The game is called MW Ultra and is a reboot of Metal Warrior. There are four games in the Metal Warrior series, all of them a “semi-cinematic” style, with a blend of shooting, melee combat & stealth gameplay. A few words from Lasse.. Plans for…
Clive Townsend will be releasing the third instalment of Saboteur this year. As I am sure you’re aware, Saboteur is an absolute classic etched in our minds from childhood. The game was released on various platforms, but the most loved version was on the ZX Spectrum. For those of you that are somehow not familiar with this game, you take…
I know what you’re gonna say, “not another one”. Yes we have had our fair share of Retro books in the past, however, it cannot be denied that these books bring back that nostalgia feeling of a child growing up, and there is always more room for feeling young again. Kieren Hawken is releasing a new book titled “8-bit on…
Originally a Commodore 64 game by Pond Software, Spaceman Splorf was recently ported to the Pico-8 platform. If you are one of the unlucky ones that have yet to sample the delights of Spaceman Splorf, then you are in for a real treat. We covered the C64 version way back in 2016, which you can read about here. Today though,…
Planeta Sinclair shared some interesting News not long ago, about a colour remake of 3D Monster Maze. For those of you that are not familiar, the game was released way back in 1982, developed from an idea by J.K.Greye and programmed by Malcolm Evans in 1981 for the Sinclair ZX81 with 16 KB of memory expansion. 3D Monster Maze puts the player…
