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Forgotten Indie Games That Deserve to Be Remembered
With the holidays approaching, everyone is focused on the new games we want, but in this special post, we detail games that deserve to be remembered. Endless Midnight: Zombie Swarm: Jordan Trudgett’s independent game on the 360 Live Arcade was from a different era. In 2011, it just felt like everyone was making their own…
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Civil War, Beelink Mini PC, & Cash Cow DX
About This Episode We head back to the theatre for latest kaiju team-up movie from Legendary pictures, check out a capable mini computer with a budget price that just might surprise you, and play a new arcade-style indie game featuring a cow with a pickaxe gathering gems! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownup Discord » GenXGrownUp.com/discord Facebook »…
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Hafoc Tor – Fancy playing a Dungeon Crawler on your ZX Spectrum? Then check this game out by Red Zebra!
Nearly every week I’ve featured either a platformer, puzzler or shooter. So to feature something completely different for a weekends worth of entertainment, is Red Zebra’s latest game of Hafoc. A new ZX Spectrum game that as one person says, "Ooh, a dungeon crawler on the Spectrum!? You don’t see those, very often…". To coincide…
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Exploring How Online Platforms have Revived the Fun of Retro Video Games
The world of online gambling is constantly evolving, with developers continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation. However, amid modern technological advancements, there has been a strong revival of retro themes, particularly from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. As such, the feelings expressed above have been taken up by online casinos in the development of online…
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7 Retro Games That Deserve a Comeback In 2025
The more gaming technology develops, the more we nostalgically rummage through our computer memory for old games. The pixels have a certain charm and the memory of the soundtracks lingers long after we are gone. Classic games simply have a special place in our hearts. The year 2025 is fast approaching. Let’s welcome it with…
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Bubble Bobble looks impressive on the Atari XL/XE, and it’s out now!
We have just found through Saberman, that Vega and team have released the eagerly awaited BBC Micro to Atari XL/XE conversion, of the hit game of ‘Bubble Bobble’. A game that has infuriated and thrilled us in equal measure at the Arcades and on our home computers since its original release around the year of 1986…
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The Goonies Enhanced for the MSX by NOP!
Here’s another great classic that wasn’t just a movie, it had a game too! And that game, just like the movie was called The Goonies. Originally the game came out for the C64, Atari 8bit and Apple II in 1985 from Datasoft, but was later ported to the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC by US…
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Modern Retro Gaming – By Brian Lesyk
I remember reading a quote once by famed French novelist and literary critic Marcel Proust: “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” In that vein, our zeal for the experiences of yesteryear as gamers often unintentionally overrides how we actually experienced them originally. More often than not, we…
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Atari 2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark – “Why did it have to be snakes?”
Raiders of the Lost Ark is an action-adventure game for the Atari 2600 released in 1982, based on the 1981 film of the same name. The game was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw. When the opportunity to write an Atari VCS game based on the film was offered at Atari, Howard Scott Warshaw – fresh…
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Retro Gaming Meets Blockchain: How Crypto is Reviving Old-School Classics
We are entering a new chapter in the world of video games. A chapter that has the potential to revolutionize the entire gaming industry. Yes, we are talking about Blockchain gaming. This is a technology that was released more than a decade ago, and although it was advertised as a game-changer, we still haven’t…
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