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
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)
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
Ever longed for the days of the Amiga Tank Mouse? Do you really fancy using one on your new modern fangled computer? Well, now you can! A new crowdfunding effort by AmigaNews aims to relaunch a modernised version of the classic mouse. They say: Tank Mouse is a brand new computer mouse, inspired by the … The Amiga Tank Mouse is back!
Turbo Tomato is an action game for the Amiga by John Girvin, which began life in 1993. Girvin gave up the project in 1997, and packaged up what was made as a demo, and uploaded it to the internet. Over twenty years later, Girvin is resurrecting the game, and it will be published as a … Amiga game, Turbo Tomato, to get physical release next year
Sew 8-bit, who create plushes of a range of game characters have announced the launch of a new cuddly version of Alfred Chicken. Alfred Chicken was a platform game launched in the nineties on a variety of platforms including the Amiga, SNES, PlayStation and Game Boy.
Seven Squared, the T-shirt maker specialising in apparel featuring retro games designs have added a limited edition collection of tees featuring everyone’s fave retro footy game, Sensible Soccer. Sensible Soccer (or Sensi to its friends) was developed by Sensible Software and published by Renegade in 1992. Starting off on the Amiga and ST, the game … Seven Squared get Sensible! (…Soccer t-shirts)
There’s a whole bunch of retro-game related croud funding projects being crowd-funded at the moment – here are a few of our picks. The ones nearer the top of the article are ending soonest, so act fast if you’re interested. Bear in mind that when you contribute to a crowd-funding campaign, there is no guarantee … Round-Up of retro-gaming crowd funding projects : July 2020
Vergeworld: Icarus is a new Amiga game being developed by Retro Bones. The game is described as a sci-fi shoot’em up, racer game with exploration elements. In the demo game you must fly your ship through the canyon to complete the Death Run Challenge. The closer you fly to the planet surface, the faster you … Amiga demo available for Vergeworld: Icarus
Here are three upcoming books that may be of interest to retro gamers – two of them are being funded by crowdfunding, so take action if they interest you. Shareware Heroes Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the … Upcoming Books: Shareware Heroes, Video Games that saved my life, The Games that Weren’t