Resident Evil was supposed to be scary. My heart skipped a beat when zombie dogs crashed through a window. Likewise, when playing the original Tomb Raider, that T-Rex scared the absolute crap out of me. But I’d had games scare me senseless for a lot longer than that… We present, in chronological order – my scariest moments in 8-bit … The Scariest moments in 8-bit Microcomputer games
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 worked closely with some of the world’s most renowned Game Boy collectors to pull together a varied selection of titles that spans both Western and Eastern tastes. We’ve tried to … Pre-orders open for new Book – Game Boy: The Box Art Collection
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 and Retro Gamer magazine; has now teamed up with Fusion Retro Books to relaunch the book via crowdfunding. Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games has a foreword from David Jones, … Book relaunch: Florin’s ZX Spectrum Haul of Games
New publisher 2Minds, which specialises in carts for the Sega Master System have announced three games which it is planning to release early next year. The games are Heroes Against Demons, Flight of Pigarus and Bara Baru. Heroes Against Demons Heroes Against Demons is a match-three puzzle game by Ichigo, with music by Polaria Poyon. … 3 new Master System carts available to pre-order
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 @ReEstInv that allows you to post to various social media accounts, turn lights on and off and connect to other Smart Home features. The software requires … You can now use your Apple II to control your Smart Home and post to Slack or Twitter!
Minimum Press are making available again the Officially licensed Vib-Ribbon soundtrack on white 12? vinyl. The LP was originally launched earlier this year but was quickly sold out. The Vib-Ribbon game was originally released in 1999 for the PlayStation in Japan and Europe. In the game you guide Vibri the rabbit across a ribbon in … Vib-ribbon soundtrack LP to be re-pressed
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 playing Star Battle on my VIC-20 as a child that you would still be able to buy new game cartridges for the Vic forty years later, I would be … 20 great Vic-20 homebrew games
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 release collects some of the most celebrated videogame music of the 16-bit era, including Bomb the Bass’ ‘Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13)’ from Xenon 2, Nation XII’s ‘Into the Wonderful’ … Read Only Memory to release Bitmap Brothers vinyl LP
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 old platforms. They say “This collection showcases 14 games from 10 different developers from around the world. From story-driven 8bit horrors to adventure-filled platformers – Indie Heroes shows that Evercade … Evercade announce new cart of Indie titles
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 Playstation Magazine. As we played them, we ranked them in order of how much we liked them. This is our top twenty games: *well, unless we missed one … The Top Twenty Best Net Yaroze Games