Articles by Ramokromok

The Commodore PET finally has it's own version of Space Panic, called PET Panic! thanks to Jim Orlando. Space Panic was launched in the arcades in 1980, and was the first game that involved... More

Yesterday, Blaze Entertainment shared information about the next two Evercade carts, and today they have shared even more news about the Evercade line-up for 2023. Game of the Month Season 2... More

Plants vs Zombies is a tower defence game that was originally launched by Popcap in 2009. The game made its way to a variety of platforms such as Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, iOS and Android, and Popcap... More

Blaze Entertainment have announced two new cartridges for their Evercade platform: Toaplan Arcade 2, and TheC64 Collection 2. Both cartridges are due to launch in April, with pre-orders open later... More

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... More

Z80 emulator, ZEsarUX looks to be adding the Amstrad PCW to its range of emulators, based on a tweet posted a few days ago. @zesarux posted "New machine coming to ZEsarUX.. Who recognises it?"... More

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... More

The latest cartridge from Evercade, Indie Heroes 2, is available today. The new compilation features a variety of indie games, some of which have previously featured as part of Evercade's Game of... More

Amiga Addict magazine has launched its 18th issue, with a look at some behind the scenes tales from legendary hardware dev NewTek and their Video Toaster. Other features include: The new... More

Pixel Addict, the multi-format retro tech magazine from the same people as Amiga Addict, has just launched its Issue 9. The cover story is about the cultural impact of the original PlayStation... More

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... More

Arcade1Up are relaunching their Star Wars arcade machine for a limited time. The 40th Anniversary version of the machine features the Atari arcade versions of Star Wars, Star Wars: The Empire... More

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... More

Fairchild's Channel F was launched in 1976 as the Video Entertainment System, and was the first console to use interchangeable ROM cartridges. It was developed by Jerry Lawson and his team at... More

The Jaguar CD was an add-on for the Atari Jaguar video game console that allowed the console to play CD-ROM games. The add-on was released in 1995 and included a double-speed CD-ROM drive, as well... More

Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams’ have launched Colossal Cave, a 3D interpretation of the original text adventure for modern platforms. “The original Colossal Cave Adventure was... More

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apple's Lisa computer. While it wasn't a resounding success - it did lay the ground for several computing concepts we are familiar with today... More

It is easy to forget that we weren't always on the internet. You had to decide to go on there. Then you had to listen to the 'going on the internet theme tune', which went like this: Hum /... More