Jeroen Domburg, aka Sprite_tm, is a hardware and software hacker, and has created a portable hand-held Vectrex, which he showcased at the recent Hackaday Supercon. His build, which uses FPGA board, a mini CRT (from an old video intercom), can play original Vectrex carts, as well as a range of home-brew and “back up” carts … Jeroen Domburg creates Vectrex Portable that takes carts and has a tiny CRT
Arlasoft has released a wonderful conversion of the classic arcade game, Burger Time. The port was developed especially for and released during the Mamemeister Charity Stream on 5th November 2023. Burger Time was originally launched in 1982 by Data East and is a platform game where you must assemble burgers by walking over the various … Burger Time gets excellent C64 port by Arlasoft
If you’ve got an Atari 2600, you may have sat down for a quick game of Breakout or Warlords and your paddles are all jittery and rubbish. Yes, you can open them up and clean them, to see if that works, but if the sight of a screwdriver make you shudder then you can simply … You can now replace your jittery Atari 2600 paddles – Atari are selling new ones!
Arguably the best Tetris version on the Amiga was Svein Berge’s Twintris – it had two player mode, a bunch of different game variants, and banging tunes by Tor Bernhard Gausen. Now the game comes to Windows with a new version by GameCraftingCorner, so you can relieve the joys of Twintris all over again. But … Twintris – the classic Amiga Tetris-clone gets modern Windows port
Hamster Co. has announced that Growl is now available digitally be released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of their Arcade Archives. Growl was originally released in the arcades by Taito in 1990. You can choose one of the four rangers to control and save the animals from the evil poachers. Use weapons … Taito’s Growl comes to Arcade Archives on Switch and PS4
Dreamcast owners, rejoice! You now have two more games to play online – one is new, Driving Strikers, and the other, is the return of an old friend, Daytona USA. Driving Strikers Driving Strikers is a new Rocket League-style game for Dreamcast, Windows and Linux. The game is a 2.5D car football extravaganza in a … Not one but TWO online-enabled Dreamcast vehicular games! Driving Strikers, and the return of Daytona USA
Nick Sherman of Arlasoft has created a version of the mobile game, 2048, for the computer that provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the Apollo spacecraft. Sherman says, “The game is written in AGC assembly, just like the Command Module and Lunar Lander software from the Apollo missions, and takes … Arlasoft creates version of mobile game, 2048, for a 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer
Eighties-8-bit legend, Manic Miner has been converted to Panic’s Playdate handheld. Manic Miner was originally launched on the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith in 1983. In the platform game, you play as Miner Willy and have to go through twenty caverns, where you need to collect all the objects before moving to the next cavern. … Manic Miner comes to Playdate
Back in 1993, Plus/4 coders Tamás Sasvári and Csaba Kémeri attempted to create a port of iconic puzzle game, Lemmings, to the Commodore Plus/4. Sadly the game was never finished, and the source code was eventually lost due to disk errors. However, in 2020, Games That Weren’t, reported that the remaining files of the game … Unofficial Plus/4 Lemmings port is available now
Square Enix and Taito, in collaboration with Google, have launched Space Invaders: World Defense which incorporates Google’s Streetscape Geometry API. In the new mobile game, you can earn points by exploring your neighborhood and defeating the Invaders you encounter. Players can unlock special power-ups, participate in area-specific rankings, and share gameplay images and AR selfies … Augmented-Reality Space Invaders game comes to mobile phones