It’s not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from … Memotech MTX, Microbee and Sord M5 get some homebrew-love with puzzle game Vexed
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 … An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)
Life on Mars: Genesis is a “MetroidVania”is a new game for the Mega Drive / Genesis by Spanish devs, Kai Magazine Software. The game is based on their previous game, Life on Mars, for MSX 2. The Story A scientific colony was established on Mars and frozen life was found in the Martian ice, a … Life on Mars: Genesis – new Mega Drive ‘MetroidVania’ available for pre-order
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 additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, … List of games available on Antstream Arcade (Updated August 2022)
Popular puzzle game, Chip’s Challenge, never got a home console release back in the day. The game began on the Lynx, and had conversions for home computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Amiga and Commodore 64 amongst others. Well, that’s about to change with an officially licensed release of the game on Super Nintendo and … Chip’s Challenge comes to SNES and Mega Drive
For those of us that still use snail-mail, the Royal Mail are launching a set of stamps commemorating the history of the British video game industry. The stamps feature images from Elite (BBC Micro), Dizzy (ZX Spectrum), Sensible Soccer (Amiga), Lemmings (Amiga), Populous (Amiga), Worms (Amiga), Micro Machines (Mega Drive), Wipeout (PlayStation) and various Tomb … Royal Mail to release stamps commemorating History of British Video Games
We first heard about Antstream last year, and it sounded right up our street! Anstream is pretty much “Netflix for retro games”, and offers you the chance to stream and play a whole bunch of retro-games on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles for a monthly subscription (£9.99 per month, or you can pay yearly at … Our first look at Game Streaming Service: Antstream