Tag: Retro Gaming
While the Super Nintendo may have had an excellent Game Boy adapter to play the pocket-sized classics on the big screen, Sega never released an equivalent for their colourful Game Gear handheld. With a hefty amount of solder and a custom built board, one retro gamer has made his very own 2-in-1 Master System with a Game Gear cartridge slot…
This is the official version of the 80’s classic game “Montezuma’s Revenge!” by the original creator! Explore the chambers of the mysterious Aztec pyramid! Climb the stairs and ropes, collect keys to open doors! Collect the jewels & swords, and the coveted torch! Beware of the snakes, skulls and spiders! And finally, find the treasure room at the end of…
AIRWOLF-MBSDH- Mega Bollocks Super Duper Hack* is the standard game of Airwolf by Elite Systems but with additional 22 in-game FEATURES (not TRAINERS!) that have been added by Hackersoft. The GameAs Stringfellow Hawke, a former Vietnam chopper pilot, and the only man in the free world trained to fly the billion-dollar helicopter ´AIRWOLF´ you have been assigned a dangerous rescue…
[youtube cictUOfIJwA nolink] Great news coming directly from subreddit Retrobattlestations: The CPCRetroDev is a yearly game development competition held in Spain. The competition aims at discovering talented developers by asking them to develop retro games for 80’s machines. As you retrodevelopers know, computational limitations are a key factor for fostering creativity and encouraging new technical achievements and discoveries. Contest platform…
Brilliant Maze is a maze game for the Commodore 64 developed by Geir Straume, with music by Odie. The version 1.1 is available now for free here on Vintage Is The New Old download area! The rules of the game are very simple: find your way through the maze to pick up diamonds while avoiding the enemies chasing you. After…
Pete Rittwage released a new version of NIBTOOLS. NIBTOOLS is a system to transfer data from original diskettes to a G64 or D64 disk image. These diskette images can be used with emulators or can be used to create new (real) diskettes. Changes in this version: Update for the SRQ code. SRQ nibbling is now the default. And a verify…
TOSEC has been updated. TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. In this update: 14 new, 117 updated and 13 removed. Website: http://www.tosecdev.org
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
Outrun was ported from Arcade to various game consoles and computers, the best retro port in my opinion is the PC Engine version, an excellent conversion and very close to it’s Arcade counterpart. The Amstrad CPC version unfortunately is quite the opposite, a rushed and unfinished Speccy port, this abomination is legendary and notorious amongst CPC fans for being, hmm…how…
[youtube PksHJ7wCm2Q nolink] Liquid Kids was developed by Ocean Software in 1991, but it was never released. In 2003, Galahad of Fairlight obtained a copy, fixed several bugs and released it for the Amiga community. Lemon Amiga has published in its YouTube channel a play guide and review of the game. The video runs for almost 50 minutes and it…
