If there’s one thing none of us can resist, it’s that good old feeling of nostalgia. Whether it’s a book we’ve read when we were younger or a silly trend that’s making a comeback after years, seeing something you loved after a while brings all of the good feels rushing back. For most of us […]
Posts Tagged ‘retrogaming’
BLAST ANNUAL 2020: Volume 1 Special Offer This Weekend only
March 7th, 2020
CPC4EVA If you were not aware, retro gaming Kickstarter project, Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1, has been live for the past week. Currently 28 days remaining and sitting on 31% of the target goal, the creators of Blast Annual like its backers, want to get the publication fully backed and printed.
BLAST ANNUAL 2020: VOL 1 KS PRE LAUNCH
February 27th, 2020
CPC4EVA New print only retro gaming publication, Blast Annual 2020: Volume 1, is coming soon to Kickstarter. A launch date has been set for 29th, Februrary, 2020. To help spread the word about this upcoming retro gaming project, Blast Annual is sharing the pre launch Kickstarter project url.
Batman Group WOW’s with ‘Amstrad Supremacy’, Vespertino work in progress racing sim teaser video
May 6th, 2019
CPC4EVA Vespertino, is a real racing simulator. A racing game that shows no old school 8-bit pixels or sprite blockiness in it’s graphics. It demonstrates a fluidity of speed and animation not seen in most standard 8-bit machines, looking and feeling more like an advanced 16-bit computer or console game. To me it looks like a […]
Atari: A Visual History Book
April 27th, 2019
CPC4EVA Retro gaming lovers did you know that from 1979 through to 1992, over 4 million Atari 8-bit computers were sold (source: Wikipedia). The Atari 8-bit computer range had success primarily in the U.S.A and some parts of Europe with a catalog of between 600 – 800 commercially released games (not including homebrews), so it’s not […]
8 BIT ANNUAL 2019
March 9th, 2019
CPC4EVA With over 200 pages, 8-Bit Annual 2019 is HUGE! It is the second printed book covering all new 8 bit home computer and console released home brew and commercial games from 2018, by the 8 Bit Annual team. Included is many features, game developer interviews and more than 150 game reviews on Atari, Atari 2600, NES, […]
IMPERIAL MAHJONG – Amstrad CPC game review
February 16th, 2019
CPC4EVA Most 8-bit developers these days are out there releasing as many ‘shoot em ups’ and platformers as they can. Not the Amstrad CPC guys from Cargosoft, they take their time developing games, creating games that aren’t based on populist themes, so much time in fact has gone into their game development that since 2009 they […]
Is Retro Becoming Mainstream in Video Gaming?
May 21st, 2018
Carl Williams If you’ve been paying even a little bit of attention to the video game industry then you will have noticed some patterns emerging over the last few years. One of the better of these, at least from our point of view, is the increased interest which developers are showing to both retro and retro style […]
Want More Storage on SNES Classic Mini? Now You Can
December 25th, 2017
Carl Williams We all knew it was coming at some point. The mods for the SNES Classic Mini. They have come fast and hard so to speak. Well, not hard, the methods of implementing them are straightforward, almost like Nintendo didn’t even bother locking out fans (a stark difference to their corporate policies since, well, they started […]
Stranger Things Retro Game Created by 12 Year Old Programmer Using QBASIC
December 23rd, 2017
Carl Williams What did you do at 12 years old? I remember playing a lot of 8-Bit Nintendo, doing some type-in programs from Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette, and generally skipping school whenever I could. The programmer behind Stranger Things Retro Game is a 12-year-old girl whose father wanted her to have opportunities opened to her via S.T.E.A.M. […]
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