Articles

Features

An Interview with Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health and VIC-20 lover!
- Ramokromok
- Yesterday at 9:46 AM
- 3 min read
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...
An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)
- Ramokromok
- Aug 26, 2022
- 3 min read
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...
Wishlist: Five things I'd love to see for the Evercade
- Ramokromok
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min read
When I reviewed the Evercade back in 2020, I had a Wishlist of cartridges I'd like to see. Funnily enough, most of that wishlist has been...
20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games
- Ramokromok
- Jul 21, 2022
- 5 min read
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...
List of games available on Antstream Arcade (Updated August 2022)
- Ramokromok
- Jun 21, 2022
- Updated Aug 20, 2022
- 21 min read
When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade...
A Chat with ChinnyVision
- Ramokromok
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min read
We had a brief chat to ChinnyVision about his popular Youtube channel. Based on your Twitter posts you have a lot of affection for the Amstrad...
How not to launch a console: A brief history of the Intellivision Amico
- Ramokromok
- Jun 8, 2022
- 13 min read
The Backstory In The late seventies, toy giant Mattel was eyeing up Atari’s VCS and decided they wanted a piece of the video game pie. After...
How to Emulate the Fairchild Channel F
- Ramokromok
- May 31, 2022
- 1 min read
The Channel F was the first home console with interchangeable ROM cartridges, and so is certainly worth a look at for the retrogaming enthusiast...
How to Emulate the Microtan 65
- Ramokromok
- May 31, 2022
- 1 min read
The Microtan 65 was based on the MOS 6502 and was introduced by Tangerine, who would later go on to create the Oric-1 and Oric Atmos computers...
Awesome Retro Homebrew and Indie games from May 2022
- Ramokromok
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min read
Here's a brief run down of recent ports, home-brew and indie games from the last few weeks. Check out the video at the end, and if you've made a...
Amiga Amos Quick References (for Scan Codes and Patterns)
- Ramokromok
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min read
This may be of little interest to many people, but I'm currently trying to finish an Amiga AMOS game I started 20 years ago. There's a few things...
Wordle Retro-Clone Round-Up
- Ramokromok
- Apr 12, 2022
- 3 min read
You may have come across Wordle - a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is...
Cheats for Evercade Games
- Ramokromok
- Apr 1, 2022
- 1 min read
Sometimes old games are just plain hard. Here is a series of tips and cheats for the Evercade cartridges: Codemaster Collection 1 Cheats Gremlin...
What's on the Xbox Game Pass for the retro-gamer?
- Ramokromok
- May 27, 2021
- 2 min read
Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service for players with Windows, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. Once subscribed you have access to over 100...
Twenty Great Commodore Plus/4 Home-brew games
- Ramokromok
- Dec 2, 2020
- 7 min read
The Commodore Plus/4 didn’t get a great deal of love in its day. Most game publishers just made games for its 16K sister, the Commodore 16. The...
20 great Vic-20 homebrew games
- Ramokromok
- Oct 14, 2020
- 5 min read
Commodore’s VIC-20 is forty years old this year, but that hasn’t stopped people making awesome games for it. If someone had told me, when I was...
The Top Twenty Best Net Yaroze Games
- Ramokromok
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min read
Over the last month, we’ve been playing every single* Net Yaroze game that made it on to the covermounted discs of the UK edition of The Official...
Net Yaroze Month: The Incredible Coneman
- Ramokromok
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min read
In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we...

Articles