Tipped off by a friend on Instagram (thanks Graham @gameygamer !) I trundled off to www.bizzley.com to see what the fuss was about. And what a treat I found. Bob Pape has written a book about converting the seminal scrolling shooter R-Type to the ZX Spectrum and if that wasn’tContinue Reading
FILM ON ‘HISTORY’ OF ‘UK GAMES INDUSTRY’ ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL 31ST MAY 2014! – RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW The current ‘Backer’ or ‘Pre-Order’ version of ‘From Bedrooms to Billions,’ the crowdfunded documentary film that tells the story of the UK Video Games Industry, funded by people pre-ordering it over theContinue Reading
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy 30th Anniversary edition is a free online version of the classic Infocom text adventure originally released back in 1983. Notoriously difficult to complete, but great fun nevertheless (if you like old school text adventuring), this is a welcome distraction from most of what weContinue Reading
Steve Dixon of Purple Unicorn Software talks exclusively to RGC about his latest work-in-progress – Lucy the Ladybird: I have played some interesting games made using Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD) especially graphically but nothing much has really captured my imagination or done something I would say was newContinue Reading
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4 CLIP ‘FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS’ FILM BUNDLE AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDERS ONLY! ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ is a British two hour feature length documentary movie that tells the remarkable story of the UK Video games Industry. Starting in the late 1970’s the film shows how the creativity and vision ofContinue Reading
Yes, we add yet another retro version of the irritating modern gaming phenomenon that is Flappy Bird. Not that the retro versions are irritating. These remakes are borne of a love of our gaming past. A fusion of old and new showing respect for ancient gaming systems that many modernContinue Reading
What could be better than Flappy Bird on the VCS? Flappy Bird on the ZX81, that’s what! The little black wedge gets it’s own version of the gaming phenomenon courtesy of Bob’s Stuff. This version is called Quack and uses the immense power of the Zeddy to show off thisContinue Reading
It’s true folks. If you missed out on the original smartphone/tablet version of Flappy Bird because the author pulled it from sale, well don’t despair. TACS Games have released a version called Flappo Bird for yours and our favourite wood covered console. Just download the Atari 2600 ROM here andContinue Reading
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OGpcCsOD0] The following is taken from the NG:DEV.TEAM website: NEO XYX is the first TATE Maniac Shooter on NEO·GEO™. Now on NEO·GEO™ and Dreamcast™ Game Features: 6 stages with varied and colorful settings 6 endbosses 5 midbosses 16-bit hand-drawn graphics (dot graphics) Switchable between vertical (TATE) and horizontal controlsContinue Reading