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  1. Twintris – the classic Amiga Tetris-clone gets modern Windows port

    Twintris – the classic Amiga Tetris-clone gets modern Windows port

    Arguably the best Tetris version on the Amiga was Svein Berge’s Twintris – it had two player mode, a bunch of different game variants, and banging tunes by Tor Bernhard Gausen. Now the game comes to Windows with a new version by GameCraftingCorner, so you can relieve the joys of Twintris all...
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  2. Taito’s Growl comes to Arcade Archives on Switch and PS4

    Taito’s Growl comes to Arcade Archives on Switch and PS4

    Hamster Co. has announced that Growl is now available digitally be released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of their Arcade Archives. Growl was originally released in the arcades by Taito in 1990. You can choose one of the four rangers to control and save the animals from the evil...
  3. Not one but TWO online-enabled Dreamcast vehicular games! Driving Strikers, and the return of Daytona USA

    Not one but TWO online-enabled Dreamcast vehicular games! Driving Strikers, and the return of Daytona USA

    Dreamcast owners, rejoice! You now have two more games to play online – one is new, Driving Strikers, and the other, is the return of an old friend, Daytona USA. Driving Strikers Driving Strikers is a new Rocket League-style game for Dreamcast, Windows and Linux. The game is a 2.5D car football...
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  4. Arlasoft creates version of mobile game, 2048, for a 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer

    Arlasoft creates version of mobile game, 2048, for a 1966 Apollo Guidance Computer

    Nick Sherman of Arlasoft has created a version of the mobile game, 2048, for the computer that provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the Apollo spacecraft. Sherman says, “The game is written in AGC assembly, just like the Command Module and...
  5. Manic Miner comes to Playdate

    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...
  6. Unofficial Plus/4 Lemmings port is available now

    Unofficial Plus/4 Lemmings port is available now

    Back in 1993, Plus/4 coders Tamás Sasvári and Csaba Kémeri attempted to create a port of iconic puzzle game, Lemmings, to the Commodore Plus/4. Sadly the game was never finished, and the source code was eventually lost due to disk errors. However, in 2020, Games That Weren’t, reported that the...
  7. Augmented-Reality Space Invaders game comes to mobile phones

    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...
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  8. Everything there is to know about the Konix Multisystem

    Everything there is to know about the Konix Multisystem

    The Konix Multisystem was a cancelled video game system under development by Welsh joystick manufacturer Konix. The system was touted as being an Amiga and Atari ST killer, and would come with a wide range of peripherals such as a light gun, steering wheel, a flight yoke, and motorbike handles...
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  9. Magic and Legend: Time Knights – latest Evercade Game of the Month

    Magic and Legend: Time Knights – latest Evercade Game of the Month

    Blaze Entertainment have launched their latest Game of the Month for their EXP and VS consoles. Magic and Legend: Time Knights is a Game Boy Color platform game written by Giles Hamson (aka Legendary Monkey Magic.) and published by Retro Room Games The game is available to download now and...
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    • Category: Evercade
  10. How high can you PET? Donkey Kong comes to Commodore’s 1977 computer

    How high can you PET? Donkey Kong comes to Commodore’s 1977 computer

    Jim Orlando has recreated Nintendo’s classic platform arcade game, Donkey Kong, for the Commodore PET, as PETSCII Kong. He says “Move your character around four different playing screens. Jump all the obstacles that Kong throws your way. Reach your princess. For the Commodore PET/CBM 2001...
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  11. Seven Squared add new California Games T-Shirts to range

    Seven Squared add new California Games T-Shirts to range

    Retro-themed T-shirt retailer, Seven Squared, have added two new California Games t-shirts to its collection. California Games is a sports video game developed and published by Epyx in 1987. It was released for several platforms, including the Atari Lynx, Commodore 64, Apple II, Amiga, Atari...
  12. Source code for Microsoft BASIC for the Dragon 64 available on GitHub

    Source code for Microsoft BASIC for the Dragon 64 available on GitHub

    If you want to take a look at the source code for the version of Microsoft BASIC that came with Wales’ most famous computer then you’re in luck. This GitHub repository contains the source code for the Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola 6809 (aka BASIC-69...
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  13. TFW8bit’s Penultimate+2 cartridge for VIC-20 available to pre-order

    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: 0-35K Configurable RAM Expansion Games, lots of them! The entire TFW8b VIC collection plus many more. Including some exclusives titles and classics. With 200ish built in games...
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  14. 1nvader gets Oric port by raxiss

    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...
  15. New match-three game for the Speccy: Clone Zoo ZX

    New match-three game for the Speccy: Clone Zoo ZX

    PuttyCAD have ported the 2012 match-three Android game, Clone Zoo to the ZX Spectrum. “In order to make sure our beloved animals never go extinct Professor Plumbob came up with a rapid cloning system. Unfortunately the Zooplicator 9000 he invented has been having a few teething problems and he...
  16. New Evercade Game of the Month: Big2Small

    New Evercade Game of the Month: Big2Small

    Blaze have announced their latest Game of the Month: Big2Small is a Game Boy Color puzzle game by MDSteele, and was also published by RetroRoom Games on the Dreamcast and N64. The concept behind Big2Small is simple. Three animals — Elle the Elephant, Gisele the Goat and Melanie the Mouse — are...
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  17. Amiga gets two new unofficial Arcade ports: Tapper and Galaxian

    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...
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  18. Duke Nukem, Sunsoft, Flashback, Another World, Sydney Hunter and more to come to Evercade

    Duke Nukem, Sunsoft, Flashback, Another World, Sydney Hunter and more to come to Evercade

    Last night, Blaze unveiled their first Evercade Showcase, which outlined the upcoming new cartridges for the console. Despite two of the cart announcements (Piko and Sydney Hunter) previously being leaked by a retailer launching their product pages too early, there was still plenty of surprises...
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  19. Jim Orlando recreates Mario Bros. for the PET

    Jim Orlando recreates Mario Bros. for the PET

    As part of the Toronto Game Jam, PET coder Jim Orlando has created PETSCII Bros, a tribute to a certain arcade game featuring two Italian plumbers. The game is surprisingly similar to its inspiration and you can even play two player. Orlando has previously created demakes for various classic...
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  20. Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Video: Retro Indie Games Round-Up May 2023

    Games Featured: 81-Tris (ZX81) Zero Wing II (C64) Yars' Revenge (INTV) Ringo (ZX Spectrum) Where is it? (Master System) Hitbox (Pico-8) Speccy Soccer (ZX Spectrum) Mega Slow Mole (Mega Drive) The Pact (GBC) Cursed Tomb (C64) Cyberpunks 2 (Amiga) Monaco Master (Master System) Shera's Dance...
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    • Category: Various

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