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 ghosts and suck them into your Playdate using the … Playdate’s Catalog Updates for April 2023
in 1992 Delphine Software released the classic game, Flashback, for a variety of contemporary platforms including the Amiga, Mega Drive and Jaguar. Paul Cuisset, the original creator of the game, has partnered with publisher Microids, to launch Flashback 2* in November 2023 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and … After 31 years, Flashback gets a sequel on modern platforms – and new trailer
We take a look at some of the awesome retro and retro adjacent indie games launched in the last month. You can find details of all the games below: Bruxólico (ZX Spectrum) – download Sparrow Solitaire (Playdate) – download Boxx4 (Amiga) – download Murderlize all Humans (VIC-20) – download GunTner (NES) – get cart Donut … Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up April 2023
John Girvin, the man behind Turbo Tomato and Dodgy Rocks, has been showing some early footage of his upcoming game, Rogue Declan: Zero. The game is described as a twinstick roguelite shooter for the Amiga, and features support for using two joysticks or a CD32 controller. You can see an alpha release video of … Rogue Declan Zero is upcoming twinstick shooter for Amiga
In the early days of the Amiga, the company wanted to show off it’s graphical capabilities, and so in 1985 Jack Haeger, art director of Commodore, produced a collection of images to show off what Commodore’s 16-bit computer could do. One of these images was Four-Byte Burger. The software that Haeger was using, Graphicraft, was … Ahoy’s Stuart Brown recreates lost Amiga art, Four-Byte Burger
Barren Planet is a turn-based strategy game by Cyningstan, which is designed to run on the original IBM PC from 1981. It supports the original 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, and requires only four-colour CGA graphics. It is compact enough to run from a 360k floppy disk. Players take on the role of a strategist, … New turn-based strategy game for DOS, Barren Planet
If you are the owner of Blaze’s latest console, the Evercade EXP, you may be wanting a way to keep your screen from getting scratched. Well never fear, the official Evercade EXP Tempered Glass Screen Protector Kit is here! According to Blaze it gives you all the protection you need for your Evercade EXP console, … Blaze Entertainment release official Evercade EXP Tempered Glass Screen Protector Kit
Last June, a new joystick – Unithor – launched on crowdfunding website, Kickstarter. The joystick, described as “a newly designed classic-styled game controller” featuring a choice of DB9/DE9 plug or USB, raised €64K and the product was expected to ship at the end of 2022. As the deadline passed by, backers were starting to get … Crowdfunded joystick, Unithor, appears to be dead
Sega and Lego have teamed up to create four new sets of Sonic Lego. With the brand new ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ product range from the LEGO Group, Sonic fans can build, create and play as Sonic, Tails, Amy and Dr. Eggman in levels including Sonic’s Speed Sphere, Tails’s Workshop and Tornado Plane, Amy’s Animal Rescue … Lego to launch Sonic the Hedgehog set
Chris Bradburne has made a BBC Micro conversion of Deathchase, the ZX Spectrum game by Mervyn Estcourt. Deathchase was originally released in 1983. It is a first-person vehicular combat that involves the player controlling a motorcycle and chasing down enemy bikers while avoiding obstacles in a forest environment. The game was published by British software … Beebchase – The BBC Micro gets its own version of Deathchase