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
Voxel Tower have added a new version of the Amstrad football game CPC Soccer as downloadable on Itch.io. CPC Soccer was created by Israel Roman and is in the style of the classic game, Sensible Soccer. The downloadable version is called CPC Soccer: Community Edition.
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
Commodore Plus/4 Version The Curse of Rabenstein is a new horror text adventure from Stefan Vogt. The game is available on multiple formats: Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum Next, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and should you wish, ‘modern PC’. Vogt has previously released the interactive fiction series, Hibernated, and says … New multi-platform text-adventure, The Curse of Rabenstein, out now
Last night on Twitter, Batman Group announced their Amstrad conversion of Digital Illusion’s classic Amiga game, Pinball Dreams. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179130726710730752 The port features all four tables: Ignition, Steel Wheel, Beat Box and Nightmare. The graphics and music are impressive and show how good the CPC can be. The game can be downloaded in the link in … Pinball Dreams gets unofficial Amstrad CPC port
Artist, Rocky Bergen, has created cut-out paper versions of a bunch of retro-computers and consoles. ideal for livening up your desk area! As well as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Amiga above, Bergen has also created cut-outs for Apple II, Atari 520ST, IBM 5100 Portable Computer, IBM 5150 Personal Computer, IMSAI 8080 (PCS-80 System), … Paper cut-out versions of your fave retro-computers
As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have … Mastertronic Cassette Colour Codes