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The much-anticipated Playdate dock, a stylish accessory for Panic Inc.’s quirky handheld gaming console, may not be coming out anytime soon. Despite its initial announcement in 2021, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser recently acknowledged the challenges surrounding its production.
In a Threads...
Analogue, have turned its talents to recreating Nintendo’s N64 console with the Analogue3D, a device designed to play original Nintendo 64 cartridges using FPGA technology. This system aims to faithfully recreate the N64 experience with a focus on accuracy and preservation, offering 4K...
Gorillas is a turn-based artillery game, which was written as an example game for MS-DOS QBasic. The game involves two gorillas on a city scape, taking in turns to throw bananas at each other, until one is wiped out.
Now owners of Panic’s handheld Playdate can play the game, thanks to a remake...
Wolfenstein 3D, was released in 1992 by id Software, and is a landmark first-person shooter that popularised the genre. It built on the foundation of Castle Wolfenstein (1981), which introduced stealth-based gameplay in a World War II setting. Wolfenstein 3D shifted the focus to 3D fast-paced...
Currently in development for the Sega Master System is Frontier Force – a fixed screen shooter by developer, BadComputer.
Your character has access to 6 weapons. The primary weapon has 4 options, plasma, flame, missiles, and chain gun. The plasma has unlimited ammo, the rest can be replenished...
Evercade’s latest duo of carts, Bitmap Brothers Collection 2 and Legacy of Kain Collection, are available now.
Bitmap Brothers Collection 2
Following up from the original Bitmaps collection (which featured console versions of the games), this version is mainly Amiga versions.
Games included...
Pedro Bermejo has just released his “kind of” version of Prince of Persia for the Commodore VIC 20, and it plays pretty good.
It does require a +35k expansion if you’re playing on the real deal, but it also plays nice in emulators.
Bermejo says:
“Prince of Persia was one of my favourite...
Adrian Cummings, the brains behind Cyberpunks for the Amiga, has announced his upcoming game, Dungeonette – The New Adventure – a top-down dungeon crawler type game for the Amiga.
No ETA as yet, Cummings says that he “started it pretty much after CyberPunks 2 was released, so it’s a slow burner...
Hamster have announced that Mighty Guy, will be released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, available digitally for Arcade Archives series.
Mighty Guy is a an action game, which was originally released by Nichibutsu in 1986.
“Use your PSYCHO GUN in addition to superhuman actions like...
Classic mobile game, Flappy Bird, has made its way to the unexpanded VIC-20 thanks to VIC 20 Denial forum member, Hawks.
Flappy Bird was originally launched as a mobile game in 2013, and developed by Vietnamese video game artist and programmer Dong Nguyen. The game is a side-scroller where the...
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...
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...
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 buy a new pair of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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