Tag: Retro Gaming
Backing a Kickstarter usually comes with a certain degree of risk, since the project can fail and be gone with you money. This is not the case here! Commodore 64: a visual Compendium Second Edition by Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books. He has proven he is capable of delivering a high-quality product, sometimes surpassing any expectation and with this campaign, that already…
Retro computer’s floppy drives are a species facing extinction. With all moving parts and sensible mechanism, it is hard to keep them working properly. For those who have an extensive collection of floppy disks, the options are to copy them to any modern mass storage solution or to pray for their floppy drives not to die… MSX owners have an…
With all the buzz about Windows 10, its awesomeness and its problems you may be thinking to change to another OS. To help you with that task comes the Internet Archive! Today the non-profit organization has released almost a thousand Windows 3.1 programs that can run directly on your browser. The new collection includes games, utilities and business software – the jewel of the…
Usually, CSDb has way too many amazing graphic works being published every week, so I rather not post them here all the time. Our visitor friends can always browse the CSDb database to see them and be amazed by the level of the artists from C64 Demoscene. Today I am making an exception, though. As a big fan of the ‘Monkey Island’ franchise,…
Rainbow Walker was published by Synapse Software in 1983 for the Atari 8-bit. Developed by Steve Coleman, it is an arcade game where you control Cedrick, a small creature that has the power to add colours back to the rainbow after a villain had stolen all the colors leaving the rainbow gray and dull. The AtariAge forum user Wrathchild managed to make the conversion…
Juha-Pekka Jokela has created this game for the Global Game Jam that happened last weekend (Jan 29-31). It is a simple action game for Commodore 64 where you take a role of a priest, trying to survive in a haunted house by performing rituals to stop haunting. To play, move priest around with the joystick. Whenever there’s ghost around you, find…
John Calhoun has released the source code of the games he developed for the Macintosh (System 7) on Github. The games available are Glider, Glider PRO, Glypha III and Pararena. You can check Pararena 2 game play on the video below. The games were developed in C and the fact they are now available as source code, it is a great…
Back in 2013 a Kickstarter campaign was launched with the objective to create a new game for Sega Dreamcast and Amiga. The campaign failed but the developers behind the project didn’t give up and they finally launched their product, at least the version for the Sega Dreamcast. From the Kickstarter page, we get the game’s description: Leona’s Tricky Adventures is…
I really enjoy to watch It’s a Pixel Thing! with its light approach and full of interesting information while keeping a comfortable 10 minutes duration. This new episode the show will tell you the amazing story of British developer Imagine Software, its ascent to the stars and spectacular demise! [youtube 6KR0ZnylfLk nolink] Link: It’s a Pixel Thing Youtube Channel
Archon – The Light and the Dark was ported to your browser, where you can play the game alone or using the new online multiplayer feature. The game looks exactly like the Commodore version, and it also plays the same. If you don’t lnow or remember the game, C64-Wiki has a good description: Archon – The Light and the Dark looks like…
