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The Sega Genesis is one of those consoles that was built with pretty much off the shelf parts. At least early on (before Sega revised the hardware a bit) there was no real copy protection. When released over 20 years ago, it was just too expensive to get into independent development for the Genesis (those […]
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Sega Genesis Receives Space Rush 3 Update, Work in Progress Independent Homebrew 2D Run and Gun
September 24th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Swabby Homebrew Independent Sega Game Gear Shooter Released
June 17th, 2016 Carl Williams Scrolling shooters. You are probably tired of me bringing up that the heyday of this genre being long gone. That is fine. It seems to be working. We are seeing more scrolling shooting games pop up from the independent developer world. That makes me happy. I mean, I still for the most part suck at […]
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Atari 2600 Homebrew Ports Push Hardware Limits
August 25th, 2020 Carl Williams The Atari 2600 is a classic console. There is no argument there. Where there is argument is the games. I am not going to try and tell you that the games chosen here are graphically impressive. They are not. That is just how these games look, there is only so much you can do within […]
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2600 Chess Homebrew Work in Progress
April 8th, 2020 Carl Williams Chess for the Atari 2600 is not exactly a “hot” category for independent homebrew developers. I am not sure why not though. The board game is a venerable classic. Computer Chess offers the ability to play the game when you don’t have a physical opponent available. Sure, we did see Video Chess release back in […]
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Haunted Halloween 85 and 86, Horror Homebrew Games for NES
May 29th, 2017 Carl Williams It is not all that often that I get to cover something really cool. I know, a lot of you have already gotten, beaten, and probably shelved Haunted Halloween 85 but what about Haunted Halloween 86? This article is more for the people new to homebrew/independent development of games, those that are old hats in […]
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Review – Retroid Nintendo Game Boy Homebrew
September 24th, 2016 Carl Williams Out of all of the games that we see receive fan homages regularly one genre seems to be forgotten just as often. That is the Arkanoid style brick breaker game, also known as Breakout. Well, the developers behind Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy certainly remember those two classics. Sure, the Game Boy already received […]
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Project Blaze New Sega Saturn Homebrew Announced
July 24th, 2016 Carl Williams It has not been a full week or so since the Sega Saturn BIOS was compromised and we are already starting to see homebrew/independent developer’s show off new games. One of those new games is Project Blaze by Titan Game Studios. Fans of 2D side scrolling action platform titles will want to start paying attention. […]
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Quest Forge – By Order of Kings is Latest Homebrew Release for Nintendo NES
September 5th, 2015 Carl Williams The Nintendo Entertainment System is a venerable little console, the fans are keeping this thing alive longer than anyone would have thought possible. I am not just talking about rom hacks, fan translations and homebrew digital releases – those happen quite a bit already. I am talking about physical cartridges for homebrew and independent titles […]
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Fan Creates Streets of Rage Demo for Commodore Amiga
August 16th, 2020 Carl Williams Streets of Rage was never ported to the Commodore Amiga. I do not believe it was ported to any computer platform back in the day. I know later Sega released it on PC via compilation packs but those used emulation. A fan over on the English Amiga Board forums has created a demo of SoR […]
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Upcoming Game Boy Game Where is My Body Successfully Funded on Kickstarter
August 16th, 2020 Carl Williams Where is My Body is now fully funded on Kickstarter. This new title is for the Nintendo Game Boy. The original Game Boy. The developer states the story has a very Maniac Mansion feel to it. Yep, this is an adventure title. That is great considering the original Game Boy screen is not suited for […]
