Thalamus is bringing Roguecraft DX to the Commodore Amiga, MEGA65, and even the Game Boy Color! Thalamus Digital Publishing has confirmed that the expanded version of Roguecraft — originally released on Evercade in August 2025 — is heading to a wider selection of retro platforms in Q1 2026, and asRead More →
Space Invaders Part II has now been added to the record-breaking Arcade Archives series, which seems somewhat inevitable after last week’s addition of Space Invaders (which I honestly thought had already been added!) Originally released by Taito in 1979, Space Invaders Part II wasn’t just a lazy follow-up. It tookRead More →
A new work-in-progress video has surfaced showing Space Quest IV running on the Amiga OCS, complete with reconstructed graphics and a carefully reworked colour palette. The project is being handled by Darasco of the SCP group, and aims to bring Sierra’s 1991 adventure closer to what many Amiga fans mayRead More →
One of the oddities of modern retro hardware is scale. Mini consoles look the part until you plug them into a huge modern TV, at which point the illusion quietly collapses. The Amiga A500 Mini is a good example — charming, capable, and unmistakably Amiga, but always slightly out ofRead More →
There’s something oddly festive about this announcement, even if it arrives with a raised eyebrow. Space Invaders has finally landed on Arcade Archives, and the overriding feeling isn’t amazement — it’s “hang on, wasn’t this missing?” Apparently, yes. Until now. I’m very much not short on Space Invaders in myRead More →
Games That Weren’t has closed out the year with its annual GTW64 Christmas Update, and it’s another cracking reminder of just how much Commodore 64 history is still being uncovered. The 2025 update brings a generous mix of fully playable recoveries, rare prototypes, and significant updates to existing archive entriesRead More →
A long-lost Thomas the Tank Engine game for the Commodore 64 has finally surfaced, more than three decades after it quietly vanished during development. Back in the early 1990s, Thomas the Tank Engine 2 appeared repeatedly in Commodore Format magazine’s Early Warning Scanner, but never progressed beyond brief mentions. WithRead More →
There are retro-inspired games, and then there are games that look like they crawled out of a time rift and refused to update their design documents. Beyond Logic very much falls into the latter category. Now available on Steam, Beyond Logic is a family-friendly puzzle and logic game that tasksRead More →
Hong Kong 2097, the official sequel to one of the most notorious games of the 16-bit era, won’t be launching on Steam after all. The developers behind the project — Kanipro and Kowloon Kurosawa (Happy Soft), the creator of the original Hong Kong 97 — have confirmed that Steam hasRead More →
