Following the enforced delay of 2020, the Playdate handheld retro console that boasts new titles in “seasons” is set to be available for preorder in July! You may have seen – and forgotten about – this unique little device. Designed to fit in your hand, play original but retro-style titles,Read More →
The ZX Spectrum Next almost certainly doesn’t get enough attention in a world of Evercades, C64 Minis, and Odroids. Yet the 2017 machine has been a huge success, reviving the fan community and getting a bunch of games into the deal. For example, the beautiful adventure games from Magnetic ScrollsRead More →
You’ve probably never considered having a Commodore 64 smartwatch until now.Read More →
A new Amiga battle arena game, Turbo Tomato, is set to release soon on Amiga from Nivrig Games and Bitmap Soft. Featuring fast moving tomatoes (no, really), the game looks like some of the most frantic fun ever pumped through the Denise chip. TURBO TOMATO is a high-explosive arena battleRead More →
One of the top games on the Nintendo Wii was Super Mario Galaxy, released in 2007. A title so deep, memorable, and loved that it was revived for 2020’s Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection for the Nintendo Switch. Sadly, while Super Mario Galaxy has had a release on Android inRead More →
Despite being first announced in 2017, the Atari VCS is yet to ship to anyone who didn’t back the Indiegogo project. But that is about to change with news that preorders of the erstwhile Ataribox are shipping, with the device order to buy later this month. There has been someRead More →
MAME 0.232 is now available, with the new version featuring the Mrs Dynamite game. This is a strange one. Pac-Man clone Mrs. Dynamite was apparently only available in certain locations in the 1980s, but poor records from the era don’t really tell the story. Whatever the case, Mrs. Dynamite wasRead More →
There was a time when game ROMs could be found on the internet with relative ease. Then Nintendo vs ROMUniverse happened and everything changed. ROMUniverse hosted a veritable treasure of gaming ROMs, aimed at retro gamers, which included a huge selection of Nintendo titles. This ended in 2019 when NintendoRead More →
Developers of the brand new game Ninja Carnage C64 have released the source code on GitHub. A semi-textual point-and-click “die and retry” adventure game, your mission in Ninja Carnage is to help a ninja kill the yakuza boss, overcoming two key problems… Your mission, to help a Ninja kill theRead More →
