The Story of the Oliver Twins Kickstarter launch event – new Dizzy game revealed
The impressive Centre for Computing History in Cambridge was the scene of the action yesterday as a new Kickstarter campaign to fund the new book on the Oliver Twins was launched. The book written by Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean will chronicle the astonishing rise of Andrew and Philip fromContinue Reading
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game – Part 2
Part Two: Pixel perfect platforming Since the last instalment, I made the decision to go completely back to basics and do some research before progressing any further with my platform game. Why? It has been a dream of mine to make a C64 platform game for a long, long time,Continue Reading
The Story of US Gold by Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean – review
With a book about software publishing house Ocean, an upcoming Kickstarter-funded Commodore 64 in Pixels book and a highly popular ZX Spectrum in Pixels duo already their belts, there seems to be no stopping the publishing powerhouse that is Fusion Retro Books and its owner Chris Wilkins. Our reviews ofContinue Reading
Sega Saturn clock battery replacement – how to
Imagine this. You plug in your Sega Saturn, grab your Virtua gun, load up your well loved copy of Virtua Cop… and this appears: You almost rage destroy the gun as its a royal ball-ache trying to navigate the time and date setting process using the buttons on your gunContinue Reading
Escape: a Game Boy chiptunes EP by Joe Bleeps
Joe Bleeps (AKA Joe Heaton) is no stranger to Retro Games Collector and we have featured his Game Boy modding skills before. It is these modding skills, including the addition of backlights and stereo line-out sockets that led multi-talented Joe finding his way into the chiptunes scene and eventually producingContinue Reading
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 game
Part One: Initialising and moving a sprite I find it absolutely incredible that the Commodore 64 development scene is alive and well. Thanks to companies like Psytronik there is still a healthy stream of games arriving on the C64 25 years after I first got my machine in 1990. IContinue Reading
Amiga A1200 new housings Kickstarter campaign
There have been quite a few ‘new housing for vintage computer/console’ Kickstarter campaigns of late but this one caught our attention because it dares to be a little bit different. Let me elaborate… With less than a week to go at the time of writing this particular campaign by PhilippeContinue Reading
The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels Kickstarter launches!
Following on from his highly successful series of ‘in Pixels’ books on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Chris Wilkins, founder of Fusion Retro Books has now turned his attention to it’s playground rival; the Commodore 64. After the success of the books I have done the ZX Spectrum, it was onlyContinue Reading
PAL Sega Megadrive Region Switch Mod – how to
Many a tutorial has been written regarding the Sega Megadrive Region Switch mod. This modification will release the true power of the MD and enable you to play Japanese and American games on your PAL console with the flip of a switch. Most tutorials you find will use two toggleContinue Reading
The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels Kickstarter campaign
We are proud to be supporting Chris Wilkins and Fusion Retro Books with the imminent Kickstarter campaign for his latest title ‘The Story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels’. This book follows on from his highly successful series of books on the ZX Spectrum and will be a great additionContinue Reading