News for retro home video game consoles
I love Starflight. I have done ever since I was a kid — and having returned to it recently, I think I love it even more than I ever did before. And the reason for this is despite its relatively primitive technology, I am yet to play another game that quite captures the feeling of [...]
The shareware scene on MS-DOS PC in the ’90s was a vibrant and interesting place, filled with highly creative games that got the humble old beige box doing things that people never thought it was very good at — like running console-style platformers and shoot ’em ups. Games like Secret Agent. Playing a leading role [...]
Dizzy the Adventurer, an NES remake of Dizzy’s sixth adventure Prince of the Yolkfolk, is a great way to get into Dizzy games. And, conveniently, you can nab it as part of the excellent Oliver Twins Collection cartridge for Evercade, among other sources. The Dizzy games from The Oliver Twins and CodeMasters are indisputable classics [...]
I’m willing to bet that out of those of you who played Jill of the Jungle back in the day, most of you probably didn’t play its two follow-ups Jill Goes Underground and Jill Saves the Prince. The reason for this is simple: Jill of the Jungle was free, while Jill Goes underground and Jill [...]
These days, we’re pretty familiar with the idea of free software of various forms: freeware, open-source projects, free mobile apps (although nine times out of ten these days, those aren’t actually free) and all manner of other things. Back in the 8- and 16-bit home computer era, public domain software was the main means through [...]
There’s a dearth of good Intellivision writing on the Internet — so we’re doing our bit to put that right by working our way through the library of fascinating games for this unusual system! In total, the Intellivision system played host to three games that were originally intended to be licensed adaptations of the Dungeons [...]
We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! Thanks to emulation, these days it’s easier than ever to play retro games with [...]
Ah, love, innit grand? You get to argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher (inevitably mine), whose turn it is to go food shopping (also inevitably mine) and who it was that forgot to put the takeaway leftovers in the fridge before going to bed (definitely her). And along with all these [...]
Given Screamer’s 1995 release date, comparison’s to Namco’s Ridge Racer — which came out two years earlier — were inevitable. And I doubt developer Graffiti (today known as Milestone) were complaining, either; their game being regarded as the closest thing it was possible to get to Namco’s PlayStation (and arcade) exclusive on an MS-DOS PC [...]
There’s a dearth of good Intellivision writing on the Internet — so we’re doing our bit to put that right by working our way through the library of fascinating games for this unusual system! Cloudy Mountain — known variously as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge (yes, the word “cartridge” was actually part of its title [...]