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The Konix Multisystem was a cancelled video game system under development by Welsh joystick manufacturer Konix. The system was touted as being an Amiga and Atari ST killer, and would come with a wide range of peripherals such as a light gun, steering wheel, a flight yoke, and motorbike handles...
Blaze Entertainment have launched their latest Game of the Month for their EXP and VS consoles. Magic and Legend: Time Knights is a Game Boy Color platform game written by Giles Hamson (aka Legendary Monkey Magic.) and published by Retro Room Games The game is available to download now and...
Jim Orlando has recreated Nintendo’s classic platform arcade game, Donkey Kong, for the Commodore PET, as PETSCII Kong. He says “Move your character around four different playing screens. Jump all the obstacles that Kong throws your way. Reach your princess. For the Commodore PET/CBM 2001...
Retro-themed T-shirt retailer, Seven Squared, have added two new California Games t-shirts to its collection. California Games is a sports video game developed and published by Epyx in 1987. It was released for several platforms, including the Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, Apple II, Amiga, Atari...
If you want to take a look at the source code for the version of Microsoft BASIC that came with Wales’ most famous computer then you’re in luck. This GitHub repository contains the source code for the Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola 6809 (aka BASIC-69...
The Future was 8-bit are launching an update to their popular VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate. Features include: 0-35K Configurable RAM Expansion Games, lots of them! The entire TFW8b VIC collection plus many more. Including some exclusives titles and classics. With 200ish built in games...
1nvader, the one button game inspired by Space Invaders has been ported to the Oric, by raxiss (part of the team who produced the excellent Wizard’s Lair) The game, which was originally coded by Darren Foulds on the Commodore 64, has also been ported to the Atari 8-bits, Arduboy, Channel F and...
The Amiga has been blessed with some top quality arcade ports in recent months (as an example, take a look at Xevious), and now we’ve got a few more with the classic shooter, Galaxian and bartender simulator, Tapper. Galaxian 500 Like Xevious, Galaxian was transcoded, which means that the...
PuttyCAD have ported the 2012 match-three Android game, Clone Zoo to the ZX Spectrum. “In order to make sure our beloved animals never go extinct Professor Plumbob came up with a rapid cloning system. Unfortunately the Zooplicator 9000 he invented has been having a few teething problems and he...
Blaze have announced their latest Game of the Month: Big2Small is a Game Boy Color puzzle game by MDSteele, and was also published by RetroRoom Games on the Dreamcast and N64. The concept behind Big2Small is simple. Three animals — Elle the Elephant, Gisele the Goat and Melanie the Mouse — are...
Last night, Blaze unveiled their first Evercade Showcase, which outlined the upcoming new cartridges for the console. Despite two of the cart announcements (Piko and Sydney Hunter) previously being leaked by a retailer launching their product pages too early, there was still plenty of surprises...
As part of the Toronto Game Jam, PET coder Jim Orlando has created PETSCII Bros, a tribute to a certain arcade game featuring two Italian plumbers. The game is surprisingly similar to its inspiration and you can even play two player. Orlando has previously created demakes for various classic...
Games Featured: 81-Tris (ZX81) Zero Wing II (C64) Yars' Revenge (INTV) Ringo (ZX Spectrum) Where is it? (Master System) Hitbox (Pico-8) Speccy Soccer (ZX Spectrum) Mega Slow Mole (Mega Drive) The Pact (GBC) Cursed Tomb (C64) Cyberpunks 2 (Amiga) Monaco Master (Master System) Shera's Dance...
BeardoGuy has created an adaptor, and some Symbian S60 compatible software to allow to use your N-Gage as a bluetooth controller. BeardoGuy says, "I made this app and the receiver module back in 2020 during Lockdown for my old N-Gage QD, never got the time to upload it. - [It] Works with all...
Space Popo is a single screen fixed shooter, but this ain't no Space Invaders or Galaga. In this MSX game by meichnpp, you are faced with rocks and aliens, and you need to get rid of the aliens. Sadly, your missiles don't work on the aliens, but they do work on the rocks. And once you've shot a...
Wizard's Lair is a gorgeous new rogue-like game for the Oric, by Rax & Iss. The game features 33 floors, and 65,535 types of dungeons, giving a possible 2,162,655 floors. Bocco was an archaeologist who was deeply interested in the history of ancient civilizations. He often traveled the world...
It's not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from...
Lego have teamed up with Bandai Namco Entertainment to produce a Pac-Man Arcade set. And it turns out that Pac-Man’s yellow colour was inspired by the Lego logo. Originally released on 22nd May 1980 by Namco in Japan, the Pac-Man video game became a cultural icon. After 40 years of being a part...
Red Moon: Lost Days is a RPG/visual novel hybrid developed for the Sega Saturn about Kyou Tan Wa, a pilot who after lost contact with a Army General friend, sets out on a journey to Egypt to investigate his disappearance. The game is being published by Retro Room Games, who are the people...
Github user, retrospectmike has coded a version of the macOS dock for System 7 Macintoshes. The dock made its debut in 2000 on the first release of Mac OS X, and is a place to store often used apps and currently running apps. To use MacDock, simply launch the program. MacDock will be visible at...

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