Tag: Retro Gaming

'Elves' Dreamland' – Amiga game for Xmas 2015

This is a lovely cute Xmas game (2D platformer) designed for Xmas 2015. The author, Nitta Mituaki, is a “Jet Set Willy” clone game collector, so this Christmas he send us this special gift which was created by map editor of “Jet Set Billy” coded Niilo Paasivirta. All graphics and music were made by Mituaki. To complete the game, you (Santa…

Rev'n'GE Magazine Issue 44 is out

Revenge! is a magazine in PDF devoted to games and vintage hardware as well as emulation of various systems. Some of the featured articles and reviews this month: Megaman Hysteria Reviews Wings of Fury Trivial Pursuit Console Forever Download: Rev’n’GE

After 12 years, MacGUI website to close down

It was announced that MacGUI website will fade out and eventually close over the next few months. “Dog Cow” explained that last year he started to downsize his collection giving away tons of Mac related materials to whoever was willing to pay for postage. Now, the website, which has already been downsized as well will eventually close down. “Dog Cow” wants…

The Living Computer Museum Virtual Tour – Trust me, you need to see this!

Imagine Google Streets inside a museum. This is exactly what this virtual tour is at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA. Made by Tosolini Productions, the virtual tour really takes you to any place inside the museum. You can walk, look around, check the computers, etc. The only thing better than this would be to visit the museum in…

AmigaRemix – New tunes this week

For the Amiga community, AmigaRemix is very well-known for many years, but for many of our readers, it might be something new. AmigaRemix has added this week a batch of new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. This is the list: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix) Stardust Memories – daXX Remix Apidya – The Pond (Save The Last…

C64 Game 'Heroes & Cowards' now available for Mac and Windows

The new adventure game for the Commodore 64, Heroes & Cowards, released last August for the Commodore 64 just got a modern packaging allowing seamless installation on Windows and Mac. Starting from USD5.99, different editions are available at itch.io. They are bundled with an emulator for use on Windows or Mac systems, but the games can also be played directly on…

'Tanks Furry' – Amiga Game Preview

Developed for the Polish “RetroKomp GameDev Compo”, “Tanks Furry” is a tank shooter game where you have to hit the opponent’s tanks before they destroy your base. The game is still incomplete (version 0.3a) so there is still a lot to be improved and fixed, but the preview is playable. The developer mentions that for now, the game has to be…

Learn all about the MSX in 11 minutes

The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” has published a video review about the MSX System & Platform. If you know very little about the MSX platform, it is a good opportunity to learn more about it. It tackles the platform history, going from its origins, different models, hardware overview and games. Probably die-hard MSX fans will find it a little superficial, but…

Get coding! Commodore 64, MSX and ZX Spectrum Game Competitions!

Game development competitions are always fun to participate if you are a developer, and always fun to follow if you are a gamer looking for modern games for your beloved platform. Earlier this year we saw great games coming out of ABBUC’s Compo for Atari 8-bits and the CPCRetroDev compo that brought to us many more amazing games for the Amstrad…

Saboteur! for Atari XL/XE – New version, now with colours!

Few days ago we reported that Saboteur! for Commodore 64 was getting a port for the Atari 8-bit computers. At that time,  the released version for Atari had no colors yet. Terence “Tezz” Derby joined the project this week with Mariusz “mariuszw” Wojcieszek to help with the port of the game. He has reported on Atariage about his progress: “Much…