Gorillas is a turn-based artillery game, which was written as an example game for MS-DOS QBasic. The game involves two gorillas on a city scape, taking in turns to throw bananas at each other, until one is wiped out. Now owners of Panic’s handheld Playdate can play the game, thanks to a remake by theunfamiliarwolf. … Playdate gets its own version of GORILLAS.BAS – and yes, you can use the crank to aim
Barren Planet is a turn-based strategy game by Cyningstan, which is designed to run on the original IBM PC from 1981. It supports the original 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, and requires only four-colour CGA graphics. It is compact enough to run from a 360k floppy disk. Players take on the role of a strategist, … New turn-based strategy game for DOS, Barren Planet
The Big Red Adventure by Italian sofware house Dynabyte has been released as freeware. Released in 1995, the game was a sequel to Nippon Safes Inc. The player takes on the role of three different characters, Doug Nuts, Dino Fagioli and Donna Fatale, who accidentally become embroiled in a plot to restore communism. The game … Point-and-click, The Big Red Adventure, gets released as freeware
The once ubiquitous floppy disk, which started its decline after Apple decided not to bother with a floppy disk drive on its new “Bondi Blue” iMac in 1998, now lives on mainly in skeuomorphic-form as the “Save” icon. But the floppy disk doesn’t want to die, and Floppy Disk Fever, the first publication by Floppy … New book explores the afterlife of the floppy disk
At first glance, this may just look like a standard version of The Secret of Monkey Island, but look closer, and you can see the perspectives change as you walk through one of the first locations in the game. The demo which is playable in SCUMMVM was created by Mausmoto using a technique called voxel … Check out this gorgeous fan-made tech demo of Monkey Island’s Scumm Bar in 3D
THQ Nordic announced yesterday that they are rebooting the Alone in the Dark series with a new game that has been in development since 2019. THQ Nordic describe the new game as a “love letter to the ground-breaking original” and say, “While presenting a completely original story, we incorporate characters, places and themes from the … Classic Survival Horror game, Alone in the Dark, gets reboot
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)
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
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
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