Although I was late with this news ( I have bad back ), I thought it worth mentioning Rodrigo Siqueira's latest MSX based platformer of ' AlienMSX ' which was entered into the MSXdev24 competition. A game that tasks players with completing three missions and escaping the alien infested planet. The game stages are inspired by the script of the original movie. To coincide with this news ..read more

Arcade Shooters we just love 'em! From Galaga to 1942, to Xenon and even Swiv. But there's one Shoot 'em up that caught our eye this month, and that's the latest release of ' Galastrad ' for the Amstrad CPC and GX4000. As in the words of the website "GAME RELEASE AVAILABLE. GALAGA-Like SHMUP Game for the Amstrad CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 and GX4000, old-school design for memories". To coincide with ..read more

This week we've been swamped with news, and as I'm now overwhelmed and need a writers break, I thought it would be best to give a final shout out for this addictive yet simplistic little game called 'King and Balloon' by RMJ & JoeJoe. A 1:1 arcade port of Namco's 1980 game for the Commodore Amiga, which was written in 68k assembler and based on the original Z80 code. To coincide ..read more

The awesome news just keeps on coming! As we've recently been contacted by a good friend of ours through Facebook, that the brilliant Arcade game of 'Mikie' by Konami, with 8bit versions by Imagine. Has been ported over the Atari XL/XE by Krzysztof "Vega" Góra, Michał "Miker" Szpilowski, and Krzysztof "Kaz" Ziembik. A game in which playing as Mikie, you must complete a secret ..read more

When it comes to the MSXdev competition, you are guaranteed at least one very decent game, that I'd recommend to anyone who was looking into getting into the MSXdev scene. Case and point being Lilly's Saga, which was an MSXdev22 winner for Gameplay, Graphics and Sound. Well here we are with a new competition to look forward to, and the first banger for 2024 is Princess Paloma’s Rescue ..read more

Sometime ago we featured a game called Manic Jet Set Willy, a Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy mash up for the ZX Spectrum by Norman Sword. Well fast forward to today and yet another Jet Set Willy mash up has been announced, as thanks to Saberman giving us the heads up, we've been told that Sloanysoft has released a highly enjoyable game of Jet Set Steamboat Willie. A mash up of Mickey Mouse in a Jet ..read more

In 1984 Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx released Impossible Mission on the C64. It was and still is an awesome game that had a variety of genres included such as platforming, adventuring and action. Oh and it also had digitized speech which can be heard when you first start the game such as the legendary words ' Another visitor, stay awhile, stay forever!'. Now thanks to a heads up by ..read more

Pixelbrei Games with publishing by Bitmap Soft has finally released the eagerly awaited 'Timo's Castle' for the C64! As in the words of the website "In a nostalgic homage to the golden era of gaming, a team of passionate developers spanning from Switzerland and Germany proudly announces the release of Timo's Castle. A homage to the beloved classic Henry's House by Chris Murray, originally ..read more

Amstrad CPC Plus and GX4000 owners might like this latest news story that's just been sent to us by AngelSanchezTWI through Twitter, as if you're looking for a new(ish) game to play right now, then it might be worth checking out SyX and RedAngel's puzzler of Flipull+; a hacked version of Plotting, that now 50 levels taken from the NES version with new background graphics, data ..read more

We've featured the 1983 game of 'Tapper' a number of times now, as not only did it appear as a brilliant Arcade to Amiga conversion by Old_Bob, but it also appeared on the ZX Spectrum as a tapper clone by the name of 'Cobra Laser'. Well as a new Tapper update and not related to the Amiga or the ZX Spectrum. We've been told by both Saberman and XeNoMoRPH, that Fitosoft has released the ..read more