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New VIC-20 game: Overthrown – play as a mad president and escape to your private island!
Overthrown is a new game for the Commdore VIC-20 where you play as the soon to be ex-President of a corrupt state. Leave your palace, grabbing as... -
Protovision seeking funding for new 8-button, 9-pin controller
Protovison, the publisher of retro homebrew games such as Soul Force and Sam’s Journey are seeking funding for a multi-button controller for... -
Twenty Great Commodore Plus/4 Home-brew games
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... -
Sarah Jane Avory’s C64 Shooter, Soul Force available for Pre-Order
Soul Force – Sarah Jane Avory’s highly anticipated horizontal shooter for the Commodore 64 is now available to pre-order from Protovision. The... -
Evercade announce cart #18: Worms Collection
Evercade have announced the latest cartridge for their handheld console. The new cartridge was teased on social media last week with the... -
A Crush of Lucifer: Lost and unknown Vectrex prototype game found?
It looks like a previously unknown Vectrex prototype may have been found! The game is called A Crush of Lucifer and appears to be a 3D shooter... -
New Book: Acorn – A World In Pixels
Available later this month is Acorn – A World In Pixels, a book showcasing the games history of the BBC Micro and Electron. The book contains... -
The Scariest moments in 8-bit Microcomputer games
Resident Evil was supposed to be scary. My heart skipped a beat when zombie dogs crashed through a window. Likewise, when playing the original... -
Pre-orders open for new Book – Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
Bitmap Books are launching a book of Game Boy art, which celebrates some of the wonderful cover artwork for Game Boy games. They say “We’ve... -
3 new Master System carts available to pre-order
New publisher 2Minds, which specialises in carts for the Sega Master System have announced three games which it is planning to release early next... -
You can now use your Apple II to control your Smart Home and post to Slack or Twitter!
If you’ve ever wanted to use your Apple II and feel like you’re in the future, then you now can! II Connect is a new piece of software from... -
Vib-ribbon soundtrack LP to be re-pressed
Minimum Press are making available again the Officially licensed Vib-Ribbon soundtrack on white 12? vinyl. The LP was originally launched earlier... -
Book relaunch: Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games
Last year Paul Davies released a book with a collection of his ZX Spectrum game reviews. Davies; who writes for Fusion magazine, Indie Retro News... -
20 great Vic-20 homebrew games
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... -
Read Only Memory to release Bitmap Brothers vinyl LP
Read Only Memory have opened pre-orders for a 12” vinyl LP featuring the greatest hits of UK software house The Bitmap Brothers. This official... -
Evercade announce new cart of Indie titles
Evercade have announced their latest addition to their range of carts, but this time, instead of old games, they’ve gone with new indie games for... -
The Top Twenty Best Net Yaroze Games
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
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...