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King’s Bounty: Putting the “Heroes” Into “Might and Magic”
Released in 1990 on PC and 1991 on the Sega Genesis, King’s Bounty is a strategy/RPG that even the most hardcore of gamers may have missed when it was originally hit shelves. However its place among the greatest strategy/role-playing games of all time should never be questioned. The spiritual predecessor to New World Computing’s massively-popular…
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Mega Cat Studios just launched their Kickstarter project
ZPF is a new game being developed for the good old SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis game consoles, made by the designer and developer of Tänzer. The game can be best described as being a good old fashioned horizontal shooter. Known in the community as a horizontal shmup (or STG). The intent is to release the game as a physical release…
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Ninja Carnage – A great adventure game first released on the Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum is now available for the Amiga
Well this came as a complete surprise to us, as trawling through the EAB forums, we have just found out that an awesome looking game has been released for the Commodore Amiga OCS called ‘Ninja Carnage’. This game available to download for free via the pouet.net website, and also available for the Amstrad CPC(2020) and…
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Breakout & Kung-Fu Master Join The Antstream Library
Brick breaking and side-scrolling martial arts action are on the cards for retro game fans this week. This week, Antstream players can enjoy Breakout (Atari 2600), the game that launched a million bricks at walls, and fight for love in the side-scrolling beat ‘em up Kung-Fu Master (Arcade). Also, players can give the “Life, Duty…
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HOT NEWS as Prince of Persia has been converted over to the Commodore Plus/4!
We’ve just come across a hot news story via the Plus/4 world website, that the all time classic platformer of ‘Prince of Persia’; a game which was released for many different systems back in 1989 by Broderbund. As well as a more recent homebrew port for both the Atari XL/XE, Commodore Vic-20, and Sega Mega…
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PETSCII Wizard of Wor – A classic Arcade game in PETSCII for the Commodore Plus/4, C64 and CBM PET
Commodore owners are going to love this news story that we’ve just come across on Facebook.. As if you remember playing and hopefully enjoying the 1980’s Arcade game of Wizard of Wor, which also appeared on the Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade and C64. Then you’ll be pleased to know that Kornél…
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Sire Fire – Another adventure conversion is now available for the Commodore 64 & Plus4
We have just found out through the plus4 website, that Ready64 and Plus4World has announced the release of the command/text adventure game of Sire Fire for the Commodore 64 and Plus/4. As in the words of the website for Sire Fire, "Converted by Carmine Migliaccio (TSM), Spectrum original by Gian Battista Aicardi and Tony Aicardi…
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Shift – An 8bit monochrome game appears on the Commodore Amiga via Haplo!
There’s another Commodore Amiga game news story that’s well worth a mention, as we’ve recently been trawling the itch io website, and have found out that Haplo, who is behind games such as Hell Beneath, Tenebra and the Amiga port of Ooze: The Escape, has released the mind bending puzzler of ‘Shift’ for the Commodore…
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Cosplay Competition at Video Game Summit
It is now official. There will be a Cosplay competition on October 19th, 2024 at the Video Game Summit in Schaumburg, IL. The first year that VGS will be hosting this competition. Prizes and awards will be given out to winners if multiple categories. Categories Youth Amateur Journeyman Masters Click here to sign up Pre-judging…
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The Lost Vikings 2 Amiga – 1997 SNES game by Interplay could be coming to the Amiga (AGA)
Even more Amiga news for you all, as we’ve recently come across a post by Earok via Facebook, that the SNES version of the game ‘The Lost Vikings 2’ published by Interplay Productions, could be coming to the Commodore Amiga AGA using the Scorpion Engine. Although when I asked him if this was 100% certified he said, "Started…
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