John Roo first came to our attention a few years ago with the Game Boy RPG, Quest Arrest, which was really enjoyable. The game is a kind of cross between Pokemon and Police Quest. In the game you play as Detective Allison Bennett and depending if you play as “good cop” or “bad cop”, you … An Interview with John Roo of RetroRoomGames (Quest Arrest, Elland: The Crystal Wars, Big2Small)
Cloudpilot is a web-based Palm Pilot emulator written by Christian Speckner. It runs as a PWA (progressive web app) on supported desktop and mobile devices, and there is an embedded build that allows to add virtual PalmOS devices to your website. The emulator has support for Palm’s handwriting recognition function, Graffiti, and works well on … You can now pretend your Smartphone is a Palm Pilot
Antoine Vignau & Olivier Zardini (aka Brutal Deluxe Software) are continuing their mission to seemingly recreate all the Don Bluth games for the Apple IIGS, with the launch of their latest game, Space Ace. In the game you play as Dexter, better known as “Ace”. He is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander … Don Bluth’s Space Ace gets new unofficial port for Apple IIGS
Life on Mars: Genesis is a “MetroidVania”is a new game for the Mega Drive / Genesis by Spanish devs, Kai Magazine Software. The game is based on their previous game, Life on Mars, for MSX 2. The Story A scientific colony was established on Mars and frozen life was found in the Martian ice, a … Life on Mars: Genesis – new Mega Drive ‘MetroidVania’ available for pre-order
Launched over the weekend, was Knights & Slimes, a new single-screen platform game for the Commodore 64. The game was coded by Monte Boyd, who previously brought us the C64 game, Monster Catcher. You can choose from eight different knight characters to play, and the aim is to clear the kingdom of all the slimes … Knights & Slimes is a new platformer for the C64
Launched over the weekend, was Knights & Slimes, a new single-screen platform game for the Commodore 64. The game was coded by Monte Boyd, who previously brought us the C64 game, Monster Catcher. You can choose from eight different knight characters to play, and the aim is to clear the kingdom of all the slimes … Knights & Slimes is a new platform for the C64
We’ve updated our mega list of Antstream games, with the latest games added to the retro-game streaming service. The new games included Loaded – the first PlayStation game added to Antstream. The line-up of newly added games include: Amiga Fire & Forget II Amstrad CPC Cybernoid II: The Revenge Splat! Who Dares Wins II Arcade … Latest games added to Antstream Arcade, including first PlayStation game for the system, Loaded.
Revocade is a Raspberry Pi based tabletop arcade machine being made by Retro Dim Sim with interchangeable control decks. Instead of having separate machines with joysticks, driving wheels and trackballs – the Revocade does it all. The machine is made with plastic injection molding and the Raspberry Pi main board is also pre-installed so there … Revocade is a tabletop arcade machine with interchangeable control decks
The once ubiquitous floppy disk, which started its decline after Apple decided not to bother with a floppy disk drive on its new “Bondi Blue” iMac in 1998, now lives on mainly in skeuomorphic-form as the “Save” icon. But the floppy disk doesn’t want to die, and Floppy Disk Fever, the first publication by Floppy … New book explores the afterlife of the floppy disk
When I reviewed the Evercade back in 2020, I had a Wishlist of cartridges I’d like to see. Funnily enough, most of that wishlist has been fulfilled: Intellivision Collection – yep this happened! Taito arcade collection – not happened as yet, but still hoping Team 17 Collection – we’ve had Worms, and with the new … Wishlist: Five things I’d love to see for the Evercade