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  1. An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)

    Interview An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)

    John Roo first came to our attention a few years ago with the Game Boy RPG, Quest Arrest, which was really enjoyable. The game is a kind of cross between Pokemon and Police Quest. In the game you play as Detective Allison Bennett and depending if you play as "good cop" or "bad cop", you get a...
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    • big2small chip's challenge dreamcast gameboy john roo mega drive / genesis nintendo 64 quest arrest snes the retro room
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  2. New versions of H.E.R.O for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 coincidentally being made by unrelated devs

    New versions of H.E.R.O for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 coincidentally being made by unrelated devs

    Fans of the game H.E.R.O are in for a treat, as versions of the game are being released or developed for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 machines. A.R.T.I for the Atari 7800 was developed by MuddyVision and a demo is available to download on the AtariAge forums. The developer says, “A.R.T.I. is my take...
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  3. Musik turns your Playdate into an MP3 player

    Musik turns your Playdate into an MP3 player

    Nanobot567 has created an MP3 player for Panic's Playdate. If you're hankering for the early iPod days where you had to connect it to a computer and manually add MP3's then this might be for you! Nanobot567 created Music has they said "There are no public music players out for playdate yet...
  4. Myst gets a demake on the Atari 2600

    Myst gets a demake on the Atari 2600

    Myst, famous for being the “killer-app” that convinced everyone they needed a CD-ROM drive, wouldn’t be the first choice of game you’d think of as an ideal candidate to port to the Atari 2600, but that didn’t stop Vince Weaver from giving it a go. Weaver asked himself “How much of MYST can you...
  5. 20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games

    Feature 20 MORE great Vic-20 homebrew games

    A few years ago we did a round-up of 20 great Vic-20 Homebrew games. Well, in the last few years the humble Vic has seen a great number of new games. Many of these games will require memory expansions, if you are running on real hardware, but all should run fine on emulators such as VICE or...
  6. List of games available on Antstream Arcade (June 2022)

    List of games available on Antstream Arcade (June 2022)

    Update July 2023 – Antstream now lists all the games on their platform on this page here. When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include...
  7. Tapeworm Disco Puzzle wriggles onto Playdate

    Tapeworm Disco Puzzle wriggles onto Playdate

    Lowtek Games' puzzle game Tapeworm Disco Puzzle has made it's way onto Panic's Playdate console. The game, which launched as a Kickstarter back in December 2020, was originally released for the NES, and is also available for Dreamcast and PC. The game will be making its way to the Evercade...
  8. A Chat with ChinnyVision

    Interview A Chat with ChinnyVision

    We had a brief chat to ChinnyVision about his popular Youtube channel. Based on your Twitter posts you have a lot of affection for the Amstrad CPC - was this your introduction to computing? Yes. First got to use a CPC 464 at some point in 1985 and we got a CPC 6128 for Christmas 1985. Did...
  9. “When watchmakers made computers” – an interview with Kevin Palser on his iOS zx81 emulator

    Interview “When watchmakers made computers” – an interview with Kevin Palser on his iOS zx81 emulator

    Did you know you can play some ZX81 games on your iPhone? We speak to Kevin Palser about his ZX81 emulator for iOS devices. We assumed that Palser grew up with a ZX81, hence writing the emulator, but that wasn’t the case at all! “I never owned a ZX81 whilst growing up” says Palser. “The...
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    • apple ios emulation ios emulation kevin palser zx81
    • Category: ZX81
  10. VIC-20 game Cheesy Trials now available as download on itch.io

    VIC-20 game Cheesy Trials now available as download on itch.io

    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...
  11. Play Game Boy games on the Playdate with Gamekid

    Play Game Boy games on the Playdate with Gamekid

    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...
  12. Atari to launch unreleased carts for 2600

    Atari to launch unreleased carts for 2600

    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...
  13. Atari 2600 version of Shadow of the Beast finished

    Atari 2600 version of Shadow of the Beast finished

    Soul of the Beast is an Atari 2600 game inspired by the classic Amiga game, Shadow of the Beast. The game was previously under working title of Legacy of the Beast and was coded by Michael Christophersson (@aeriflame on Twitter.) and runs on NTSC Atari systems, as well as Stella, Gopher2600...
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    • atari atari 2600 michael christophersson shadow of the beast soul of the beast
    • Category: Atari 2600
  14. New VIC-20 game: Overthrown – play as a mad president and escape to your private island!

    New VIC-20 game: Overthrown – play as a mad president and escape to your private island!

    Overthrown is a new game for the Commdore VIC-20 where you play as the soon to be ex-President of a corrupt state. Leave your palace, grabbing as much money as you can, escape by armoured car, and then get on your private plane to reach your private island.\ The game starts at the...
  15. New Book: Acorn – A World In Pixels

    New Book: Acorn – A World In Pixels

    Available later this month is Acorn – A World In Pixels, a book showcasing the games history of the BBC Micro and Electron. The book contains 476 pages and featured a foreword by Richard Hanson of Superior Software, and cover illustration by Ste Pickford. Television and radio presenter, Iain...
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  16. 20 great Vic-20 homebrew games

    Feature 20 great Vic-20 homebrew games

    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...
  17. Interview with Icicle Works programmer Doug Turner, plus new Plus/4 game!

    Interview Interview with Icicle Works programmer Doug Turner, plus new Plus/4 game!

    If you had a Commodore Plus/4 then you probably played Icicle Works at some point. It was created by young programmer, Doug Turner, who also went on to make a handful of other games (Fingers Malone, Prospector Pete). Turner is about to launch his first Plus/4 game in nearly 35 years: A sequel to...
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    • commodore commodore 16 commodore 64 commodore plus/4 doug turner fingers malone icicle works mastertronic prospector pete the pit (plus/4)
    • Category: C16 and Plus/4
  18. Commodore 16 gets version of Atic Atac

    Commodore 16 gets version of Atic Atac

    Commodore 16 and Plus/4 owners now have a version of Ultimate’s classic Atic Atac to call their own. Atic Atac was originally launched by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. In the game, you must search for parts of a key to escape a castle filled with various...
  19. Everything we know about Panic’s upcoming Playdate

    Everything we know about Panic’s upcoming Playdate

    What is it? The Playdate is a handheld gaming system, that is small enough to fit in your pocket. It’s yellow, features a black and white screen, had a D-Pad, 2 action buttons. Oh, and a winding crank. The crank doesn’t power the device – it’s a rotational gameplay input device! Like the...
  20. Marjory Kaptanoglu, author of the Macintosh System 7.5 Jigsaw App

    Interview Marjory Kaptanoglu, author of the Macintosh System 7.5 Jigsaw App

    The Macintosh was never really a gaming machine. Sure, there was the big hits like Marathon, Escape Velocity or Myst – the must-have games for Classic Macintosh owners – but there was one game that was probably played by more users of Macintosh System 7.5 than any other: Jigsaw Puzzle. Jigsaw...

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