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Commodore 64 Round-Up – October 2020 – Know everything that is going on with the C64 in ...

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:48:08 GMT

Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire...

NESmaker 2020 Byte-Off demos now playable online

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:03:08 GMT

To promote NESmaker and grow its userbase, The New 8-bit Heroes held a game development competition during the summer. The 2020 Byte-Off was a month-long game development competition where NESmaker users create brand new demos for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now that the competition is over, all the game...

Survival Messenger Adventure – A Beautifully Illustrated Text Adventure for the Commodore 64

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:04:37 GMT

Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay...

Where Is My Body? Out Now on Game Boy

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 02:38:32 GMT

Independent retro development studio Green Boy Games release their 8-bit point and click adventure Where Is My Body? on Nintendo Game Boy today. If the name of the studio or the game seems familiar, that is because we featured in one of our Community Showcases back in July! In the game, a...

Retro Games, the maker of TheC64 teases an Amiga 500 for 2021

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:00:47 GMT

Our frenemy website, Indie Retro News, has a short post today telling us that Retro Games, the maker of TheC64, has a not-so-encrypted tease on their Facebook page showing a computer silhouette as a new release for 2021. It doesn’t take two seconds to realize the mysterious computer is an Amiga 500!...

Volley For Two – A new game to join the select club of new games exclusively made for the ...

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:00:47 GMT

It is not every day that we have a Commodore 128 release, so I am very excited about Volley for Two, an action-packed volleyball game for two players created by Jonas Hultén (Programming), Anders Larsson (Graphics), and Mikkel Hastrup (Music and SFX). Make sure to read Jonas’ interview below! Inspired...

Speccy & VIC-20 gamers rejoice…your Vegetables are being served

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:46:28 GMT

Double Sided Games has announced that the ‘Match 3’ style puzzle game, Vegetables Deluxe will soon be available for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore VIC-20. The premise behind the Vegetables Deluxe is to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs,...

Any true retro gamer should read ‘Attract Mode – The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade ...

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:19:16 GMT

Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.

Dodgy Rocks – An Amiga game that shows that simplicity and fun can make a good game!

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:10:11 GMT

Dodgy Rocks is a new game for the Commodore Amiga, where you have one thing to do: keep dodging the rocks thrown at you! At first, the idea seems too simplistic, but Dodgy Rocks implements it so well that you will see yourself coming back over and over to get...

#FujiNet – The all-in-one Atari 8-bit peripheral is available now for purchase

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:24:00 GMT

The Vintage Computer Center store, one provider of the also excellent SDrive-MAX has announced the immediate availability of #FujiNet. #FujiNet is a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system to a WiFi network. Although networking was the initial objective of this device, it...

Magnetic Scrolls classic masterpieces remastered for the Spectrum Next

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Strand Games has announced that the illustrated text adventure games The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter from Magnetic Scrolls are now available in a remastered version for the ZX Spectrum Next. To make the news even more interesting, all their source code is on Gitlab which means you...

Going into Action! with Atari XL/XE – Part 3 – More Variables, Memory and Pointers (ugh!)

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:22:34 GMT

Yes, no sugarcoating! In this third part we will be talking about pointers! Hello?….. Hello? Usually, when people start to learn a language like C, the first topic that sends chills down your spine, but in a very bad way is “pointers”. However, rest assured, the concept is very simple...

Scene World Podcast Episode #96 – The Retro Gaming Scene in Venezuela with Pedro Planas

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:56:17 GMT

Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in...

MSX Enthusiasts rejoice! Clube MSX issue 10 is out!

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:07:52 GMT

Clube MSX magazine, currently the only printed magazine dedicated to the MSX computers just released its 10th issue! The new issue of the Portuguese-speaking publication started to be shipped to who pre-ordered and subscribers this last Monday and it is already available to everybody else for purchase, costing only R$...

Blast Annual 2020 celebrates multi-platform retro community

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:01:27 GMT

Blast Annual is pleased to announce the availability of its multi-platform digital magazine celebrating retro computing & the retro gaming community – Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1. Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1 is full of retro reading goodness within its 214 pages. Not only does the Annual show case more...

Steve Wozniak explains why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:00:24 GMT

The excellent Vintage Computing & Gaming website one day decided to ask Steve Wozniak, via email, why the Apple II didn’t have support for lowercase letters and for Benj Edwards’ surprise, Woz answered with a very long and detailed explanation, which in my opinion is now an interesting bit of...

Brick Rick – A new Amstrad CPC game that you can download for free now and pre-order the ...

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Juan J. Martinez is again releasing a great game for free. This time he presents us with Brick Rick, a single platform game inspired by classics like Bubble Bobble. The game has 50 stages where Rick has to clear in less than 60 seconds. You can stun the enemies, so...

Scene World Podcast Episode #95 – Mechanical Pinballs with Hagen Krentz

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:08:53 GMT

Audio and podcast page to this episode: http://scene.world/hagenkrentz Hagen Krentz is a man who knows mechanical pinball machines a lot. He is also a co-founder of the For Amusement Arcade & Pinball Museum in Seligenstadt, Germany.Furthermore, he also used to work for the movie industry in the 90s. Join AJ...

The Empire Strikes Back C64 port looks breathtaking!

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:06:54 GMT

Chris Stanley from the Megastyle Productions has announced that he is teaming up with fellow group member, Rune Spaans, to port across the Atari 2600 version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the Commodore 64. Initially announced in the latest published edition of the C64 themed fanzine, Freeze...

Zeta Wing – One of the most anticipated games of 2020 for the Commodore 64 has been released

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:45:26 GMT

Sarah Jane Avory has announced the immediate availability of her new game, Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Zeta Wing is a shoot’em up inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Sarah managed to squeeze in a C64 astounding graphics and incredible parallax effects. The game also features: 7 challenging...