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Irem's arcade games will be available on modern gaming platforms. Tozai Games and ININ are teaming up to release the irem Collection with several volumes worldwide, with Strictly Limited Games to release the special physical releases on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 for...
Playdate have updated their game catalog twice since they launched it in March. The new games added are:
Shadow Gadget and Shining Gadget
Shadow Gadget and Shining Gadget are passive creature collecting idle game that transforms your Playdate into an online-enabled specter catcher! Take aim at...
Sam Coupé developer, Colin Piggot (aka Quazar) has been working on a device that allows you to play Vic-20 cartridges on the Sam.
Piggot said “My interface allows the SAM to read in the cartridge ROM code which is then fed to a tweaked version of a VIC-20 emulator that was written many years...
Jurl was originally released on the Atari 2600 in 2020, and is an simple action game where you need to collect space diamonds and avoid aliens and obstacles. The game has now been made available for modern platforms by the author.
The author of the game is Johnny Blanchard, who you may know as...
The Atari 2600 has a new awesome bowling game: Strike Zone Bowling. The game was created by duo, Edward Smith and Kevin Mosley, who previously collaborated on Atari games: Dark Keep and Kung Fu Combat 2.
Strike Zone Bowling is a bowling game for one or two players, and as you can see from the...
Yesterday, Panic announced a Playdate Update and gave news of amongst other things, an official game store for the yellow handheld device.
Reel Steal and Recommendation Dog are two new games available as part of Season 1 of games for every Playdate owner. Reel Steal is a heist game, where...
San Francisco designer and manufacturer WaterField Designs have announced a new Playdate Magnetic Case, a protective case to carry the popular Panic gaming console and its power cord.
“Our customers and social media followers have been clamoring for a classy Playdate case, so we’ve designed a...
The Internet Archive Software Collection now includes a bunch of old calculators, including graphing, pocket, and children’s calculators. These are all emulated via MAME in the browser and usable with just the touch of a button.
Currently available are:
Vtech Electronic Number Muncher
Hewlett...
Awesome VIC-20 racer, Super Monza Grand Prix has had a small update, so you can now change the difficulty of the game.
Author, AJ Layden says: “Seeing as the game was proving to be a little tough for some players I have added an option to select the difficulty in the “race for position” mode...
Earlier this year when appearing on the news, it was noticed that Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health had a VIC-20 on his desk. We reached out to Mr Gwynne, not to ask about his ideas for health policies, but to chin-wag about old Commodore computers!
Was the VIC-20 your first...
When I was growing up, I had the luxury of having the best (cough) 8-bit computer, the wonderful Commodore Plus/4. No-one wrote games for the Plus/4 but they did wrote games for its less capable sister, the Commodore 16. One company that released a fair few C16 games was Uk-based Tynesoft...
To celebrate Atari’s 50th anniversary, the company have teamed up with Lego to create a Lego version of Atari’s iconic first console, the Atari 2600.
The set has been designed by lifelong Atari fan Chris McVeigh, who said about the design; “The Atari 2600 was one of the most memorable gifts I...
Oscarbraindead has launched One-Bit Demon Attack for the Playdate.
The game is inspired by Demon Attack - the classic game for Atari 2600, Intellivision, VIC 20 and more. The author says it is not intended to be a remake, nor a reboot of it and of course it is not endorsed by it in any way...
Interview
An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)
John Roo first came to our attention a few years ago with the Game Boy RPG, Quest Arrest, which was really enjoyable. The game is a kind of cross between Pokemon and Police Quest. In the game you play as Detective Allison Bennett and depending if you play as "good cop" or "bad cop", you get a...
Fans of the game H.E.R.O are in for a treat, as versions of the game are being released or developed for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 machines.
A.R.T.I for the Atari 7800 was developed by MuddyVision and a demo is available to download on the AtariAge forums. The developer says, “A.R.T.I. is my take...
Nanobot567 has created an MP3 player for Panic's Playdate. If you're hankering for the early iPod days where you had to connect it to a computer and manually add MP3's then this might be for you!
Nanobot567 created Music has they said "There are no public music players out for playdate yet...
Myst, famous for being the “killer-app” that convinced everyone they needed a CD-ROM drive, wouldn’t be the first choice of game you’d think of as an ideal candidate to port to the Atari 2600, but that didn’t stop Vince Weaver from giving it a go.
Weaver asked himself “How much of MYST can you...
A few years ago we did a round-up of 20 great Vic-20 Homebrew games. Well, in the last few years the humble Vic has seen a great number of new games. Many of these games will require memory expansions, if you are running on real hardware, but all should run fine on emulators such as VICE or...
Lowtek Games' puzzle game Tapeworm Disco Puzzle has made it's way onto Panic's Playdate console.
The game, which launched as a Kickstarter back in December 2020, was originally released for the NES, and is also available for Dreamcast and PC. The game will be making its way to the Evercade...
Update July 2023 – Antstream now lists all the games on their platform on this page here.
When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include...
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