Tag: Retrogaming
Following a hiatus of over 20 years, Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has resumed his work on Culmins, a puzzle game for classic Atari 8-bit computers. Originally a collaboration with Rodrigo Cabrera (music) and Nestor Mercado (graphics), Fuenzalida has picked up the reigns, hoping to finally complete the project. Talking with Atariteca, he recalls that he first began work on the game…
Secretly (or not-so-secretly), we’d guess that one of the ambitions harboured by most retro gaming fans is to own an arcade cabinet. Real arcade cabs are pretty hefty pieces of equipment, difficult to come by, and expensive/difficult to maintain, making them an difficult proposition for the average household. Even replica cabinets can be prohibitively expensive, being seen as an ultra-niche…
If you’re looking to settle those playground and school-yard arguments as to which gaming console system was ‘best’, then The Centre of Computing History has just the thing to settle the debate once and for all! The Cambridge-based museum is set to release the second edition of it’s hugely popular trump cards, this time focusing on classic video-game consoles and…
If you were growing up between the late 1970s and early 1990s, it stands a good chance that you’ll have visited a video game arcade at some point. Filled with rows of cabinets, pulsing neon lights, not to mention booming music, arcades were THE place to enjoy the latest and greatest video and electronic games. Not simply a haven for gamers,…
POLYMEGA finally opened up pre-orders for its eagerly anticipated modular retro gaming system that supports multiple cartridge based and optical disc based platforms in full HD. However, the big day event didn’t go as planned as the POLYMEGA website quickly came to a crashing halt due to greater than anticipated demand and a claimed Denial-of-service attack. Eager buyers have had…
After decades of hibernation, rumours, and false starts, it looks like Sega’s much-loved 2D side-scrolling brawler series is back! Newly announced on Twitter by retrogaming publisher and distributor, DotEmu, Streets of Rage 4 is being co-developed by Lizardcube, the same team behind the recent remake of Wonderboy III: The Dragon’s Trap, and Guard Crush Games, creators of Streets of Fury….
Of all the coin-op classics to grace the arcades in the late 1980s, there is one in particular that I remember more fondly than any other. Upon entering any arcade, I would always make a point of searching for existence for this particular game. Much like a celestial body caught in the body of a planet’s gravitational field, the lure of…
Fans of interactive adventure games and fiction may be interested to learn that The Galleon is hoping to set sail for the venerable Commodore 64 in the near future. Released exclusively in Hungary under the original title of A gálya, Robert Olessak’s graphical adventure went largely unnoticed since it never secured an international release since a publisher could not be secured. The…
Taito’s classic puzzle game looks set to make it’s debut on the C64 with style, thanks to a recent unveiling of a new homebrew project unveiled over on the Lemon64 forums, Known as Bust-a-Move in the US, the game was originally developed by Taito to run on it’s B System hardware before being ported to SNK’s Neo Geo platform for…
With anticipation of the final delivery of the cased edition of the Spectrum Next starting to gather pace, gamers will be pleased to learn that they should have a selection of titles available to play when the machine finally launches. In a recent update to the Software Amusements website, Adrian Cumming’s Galaga-inspired retro shoot ’em up, DeltaStar Earth Defence, looks set…
