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Manic Miner comes to Playdate

Eighties-8-bit legend, Manic Miner has been converted to Panic’s Playdate handheld. Manic Miner was originally launched on the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith in 1983. In the platform game, you play as Miner Willy and have to go through twenty caverns, where you need to collect all the objects before moving to the next cavern. Manic Miner comes to Playdate

Augmented-Reality Space Invaders game comes to mobile phones

Square Enix and Taito, in collaboration with Google, have launched Space Invaders: World Defense which incorporates Google’s Streetscape Geometry API. In the new mobile game, you can earn points by exploring your neighborhood and defeating the Invaders you encounter. Players can unlock special power-ups, participate in area-specific rankings, and share gameplay images and AR selfies Augmented-Reality Space Invaders game comes to mobile phones

TFW8bit’s Penultimate+2 cartridge for VIC-20 available to pre-order

The Future was 8-bit are launching an update to their popular VIC-20 cartridge, the Penultimate. Features include: Find out more, and pre-order here Related posts: 20 great Vic-20 homebrew games 20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games An Interview with Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health and VIC-20 lover! The Top Twenty Best Net TFW8bit’s Penultimate+2 cartridge for VIC-20 available to pre-order

1nvader gets Oric port by raxiss

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 Intellivision. You can see a video of the gameplay 1nvader gets Oric port by raxiss

Amiga gets two new unofficial Arcade ports: Tapper and Galaxian

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 original code was disassembled and reverse-engineered, Amiga gets two new unofficial Arcade ports: Tapper and Galaxian