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 game for a retro machine that you’d like us to cover please let us know Beethoven’s Revenge (ZX Spectrum) Check out our news article here Blockman … Awesome Retro Homebrew and Indie games from May 2022
Fixel, the author of 3DO Emulator, FreeDo, has announced that pre-orders are open for his 3DO Optical Drive Emulator. The device works with 3DO’s with a 30pin “Extension” port available to be compatible. This version allows FZ-EM256 emulation in addition to CDRom emulation. It supports game images stored on USB storage and microSD cards USB … External Optical Drive Emulator for 3DO on way
Somehow Beethoven has come back to life and has been imprisoned alongside other great composers. Break out of prison and collect the necessary instruments to rescue your fellow composers. Perhaps then, you can “seize fate by the throat”, and maybe even the one who captured you… The game is a multi-screen maze game for the … New ZX Spectrum game: Beethoven’s Revenge
Hewco have launched Cheesy Trials for the expanded VIC-20 on itch.io. The aim of the game is to guide Echo the Mouse through a series of platform puzzles split across three experiments. “To beat a trial room collect a piece of cheese before the time runs out. You only have 5 seconds to do this … VIC-20 game Cheesy Trials now available as download on itch.io
If you’ve managed to get your hands on Panic’s yellow handheld, Playdate, then you may be interested in Gamekid – an emulator for Game boy games built for the system. Gamekid was developed by Dustin Mierau and is based on the GB emulator, Peanut GB. As the Playdate is monochrome, the shades of grey … Play Game Boy games on the Playdate with Gamekid
For those of you with an Intellivision, your original controllers may well be getting a bit worn by now – perhaps some of the numbers no longer work, or the controller has become a bit rubbish. Well, Tanuki and YannAros have annouced a new controller for Mattel’s vintage console. Unlike the original INTV controllers, this … New Intellivision Controller coming soon
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 I need to keep writing little snippets of code for – as my memory isn’t the best. I’ll add to this as I continue work on the … Amiga Amos Quick References (for Scan Codes and Patterns)
Atari are launching three unreleased games as part of their new AtariXP program. The games, which have previously been available on Atari Flashback devices and the Evercade, are now available as an official Atari 2600 Cart. Each of the three games are available as standard edition, and limited edition carts. The limited edition carts also … Atari to launch unreleased carts for 2600
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 simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted … Wordle Retro-Clone Round-Up
