Another great looking title has been released by Netherlands based retro game developers Revival Studios adding to their previous two titles for the Videopac (Astro Dodge and Munchkin Plus). Entitled Mayhem, it features a character called Wizzy and some frantic looking gameplay involving stick… (see video below!) Features include: Playable on Videopac and Odyssey2 [...]
Friday, July 22, 2011
I have been waiting until I received my pre-ordered iCade from Firebox before writing this review for one good reason. Atari’s Greatest Hits app does not play well with the on-screen controls. In fact I don’t think I’ve played any retro game app on my iPad that has had on-screen controls that work. Atari’s offering [...]
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The Story of a Beautiful Machine Viva Amiga is a project by Zach Weddington which needs the support of Amiga fans everywhere to make it reality. Planned to be a documentary film about the legendary Commodore Amiga series of computers and their colourful history. Zach has already filmed many big names including former Commodore Engineers [...]
Sunday, June 26, 2011
What is iCade? For those of you that don’t know, iCade is a spoof that became reality. ThinkGeek thought it was a good idea to do an April fools joke of an article featuring a miniature arcade cabinet that housed an iPad. Many people (myself amongst them) thought it would actually be a good idea [...]
Thursday, May 19, 2011
OK, so not strictly retro game related, but we saw this computer gadget of yesteryear and we now long to run around with serial ports sticking out of the back of our trainers. How cool would it be to plug your trainers into an Commodore 64? Super cool, that’s how cool and we want some… [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
As a retro game store owner, I get a lot of pre-SCART retro consoles and computers sent back to me with reports of them not working. Upon testing, 9 out of 10 of these will prove to be working just fine, leading me to the conclusion that one or more of the following points apply: [...]
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Our latest interview is with Steve Dixon, the man behind www.JammaJup.co.uk a site not only dedicated (as it’s name might suggest) to coin-ops, but classic consoles and computers of all marques. The site also features one of the most comprehensive retro gaming polling systems on the web, collating some very interesting statistics about our hobby [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Stuart Ashen explores long forgotten games of the 80′s and finds how they tackled some of the raw issues of the day in this hilarious spoof. More to be found at BBC Comedy: Extra
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Airing: BBC4 Thursday 8th October 9.00pm Starring: Martin Freeman (The Office, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as Chris Curry, the man behind the BBC-backed Acorn, and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong and Miller, the Pimms ads) as Clive Sinclair, inventor and owner of Sinclair Research. The story covers the period of British dominance of the home computer [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
If you think copy protection on software is a new thing, think again. Way before DRM, there were code-cards, code-wheels, Lenslok and dongles. Never heard of them? Head on over to Pingdom and read this great article for yourself.
‘Cos the Commodore is keeping up with you…
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
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