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How Art Style Influences Video Game Development
When you play a video game, one of the first things you notice is how it looks. The art style of a game can make you feel a certain way about the game before you even start playing. Just like how different clothes can change how a person looks, different art styles can completely change…
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An Interview with Yars’ Revenge creator – Howard Scott Warshaw
When the amazing team at Digital Eclipse created the playable documentary Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration they had the opportunity to interview Howard Scott Warshaw, who shared stories from his time at Atari and his work on Yars’ Revenge. Your browser does not support the video tag. The post An Interview with Yars’ Revenge creator…
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Coloco – A new Amstrad CPC game by Tuxedo Games featuring The Mojon Twins Mk1 Engine
It’s a Friday and you know what that means? NEW GAMES for the weekend! Yes indeed thanks to a double heads up from both Saberman and Xenomorph, we’ve been told that the previously released ZX Spectrum game of ‘Coloco’ by Tuxedo Games, is now available for the Amstrad CPC! This new title developed using the…
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Multimorphic Provides Update on The Princess Bride Pinball Production
This afternoon, Multimorphic’s Gerry Stellenberg sent out an update on the Company’s upcoming P3 pinball module, The Princess Bride. They currently estimate that Batch 1 of full Princess Bride machines and modules will begin to roll off of the production line “in August.” Each Batch of games is expected to take one month to build.…
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METRO SIEGE – A technical preview lets you play some of the levels that are in development for the Amiga (1MB)!
What an incredible amount of Amiga news we’ve had this month, from the in-development game of Galaga, to the latest releases of Ninja Carnage, and our personal favourite Shift. Well here we are with another Amiga news story, as we’ve just been told through Facebook, that BitbeamCannon, Enable Software and JOHN TSAKIRIS, has made available 3…
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Atari Opens Enrollment for its 2024 Summer Camp Program
NEW YORK, July 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced open enrollment for Atari Summer Camp, an eight week online celebration of retro gaming and everything 1980s. Anyone can join during the camp season by signing up at atari.com. Partner events and virtual…
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Mars Patrol – A rather nice version of Moon Patrol released for the C64
In the mid 80’s the developer Irem, released the fantastically enjoyable game of’ ‘ Moon Patrol ‘. A side-scrolling shooter that is widely credited for the introduction of parallax scrolling in side-scrolling video games, as you drove a buggy across a landscape, jumping over ditches and rocks while also shooting at enemies both above and…
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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paul E. Niemeyer
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Paul E. Niemeyer, who currently is displayed on card number 4113, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. Paul’s career started back in 1982 at Bally/Midway. Paul displayed his artwork talent on dozens of games like Tapper, TRON, Spy Hunter and of course Mortal Kombat. Paul has worked with many movie…
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Knightmare – The 1980’s hit TV show, is coming to the ZX Spectrum as a super new version by Sausageware Games
Great news if you remember watching the 1980s TV show Knightmare, as we’ve just been informed through Twitter, that the upcoming ZX Spectrum version by Sausageware Games, will be available to purchase at some point soon through BitmapSoft. A much deserved and more enjoyable Knightmare inspiration for the ZX Spectrum, which in itself is based around…
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Binary Battle – A unique take on the Dungeon Crawler experience for the C64/Plus4!
We’ve featured many Dungeon Crawlers over the years, from ones such as Eye of the Beholder, with its first person grid based movement, to the top down turn based ones such as Descending Dungeons. This game however called ‘Binary Battle’ by Haplo and team, is not only a dungeon crawler, but according to the creator…
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