Tag: Vintage Gaming
What is YAPE? YAPE is a Commodore 264 family emulator. It’s an 8-bit microcomputerfamily from the once-great-now-defunc Commodore Business Machines Ltd.They were released as a successor to the immensely popular Commodore 64supposedly to either compete with the ZX Spectrum and other micros buteventually failed to gain market success and the whole line was dumpedwithin a couple of years. However they…
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…
News Updates from Vintage is the New Old.Robert Joy from Ram Retro Arcade Memories has sent over his latest batch of Arcade reviews for Vitno. Some classics there for you all to enjoy! You can read the reviews below on our Reviews Page, as well as many other ones by Rob, Stuart Johns and C64Glen. Pac-Land (Arcade) Paperboy (Arcade) North…
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
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…
BiT Evolution is finally out of Early Access and is now available to purchase on Steam! Take a dash of NES, add a twist of Gameboy and sprinkle lightly with a bit of Megadrive and Snes and you end up with BiT Evolution! Possibly the greatest Retro Game release of the year! BiT Evolution is a journey into the past…
A beautiful hardcover book chronicling the Commodore Amiga years. First hand interviews, insane stories, and lots of laughs. Continuing the story of Commodore where the previous book, Commodore: A Company on the Edge left off, this book takes a look at Commodore’s most tumultuous years How did the Amiga, a computer now widely regarded as having been five years ahead of…
The Edge is a new card game for the ZX81 coded by Johan “Dr Beep” Koelman. Requirements for this game – (1K, 16K, AY Card, Hi-Res Scheme): 1K, WRX hires. Description Card Game like patience, fill the edge with J, Q, K Controls: 12345 = Left67890 = RightQWERT = UPASDFG = DownYUIOP = Back to set modeBNMss sp = Set /…
Another small update for the colourful C64 platformer, Sam’s Journey. Knights of Bytes have released another teaser video titled ‘Metamorphosis, Part 1: A Pirate’s Life For Sam‘. Sam demonstrates some of his new abilities. He can pick up items and carry them around. Also, he can throw them at enemies! The chest, however, reveals an item with very special powers….
