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The Legend of Zelda – by Tristan Ibarra
The Legend of Zelda represents, for many gamers, the birth of what is arguably the greatest, and most influential, action-adventure franchise of all time. Released early in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s lifecycle, it arrived during a formative moment when...
Atari Acquires Rights to Original Wizardry RPG Franchise
MAY 7, 2026 Atari has acquired the complete and exclusive rights to the first five games in the landmark Wizardry role-playing franchise, expanding the gaming company’s push to revive classic intellectual property through remasters, new releases and cross-media...
Hyper Sports – An arcade Olympic themed sports game appears on the Amiga (AGA/ECS)
If you haven't broken your joystick just yet, with this latest release that is very possible! As after releasing the joystick and button bashing game called Track'N'Field, JOTD has now made available the first downloadable version of Konami's arcade Olympic themed...
Playdew Brings Lost Twins 2 to Nintendo Switch
[7th May 2026, Islamabad] - Lost Twins 2 launches on Nintendo Switch today, the charming and brain-teasing puzzle-platformer that has already captured hearts on other platforms. Starting today, Nintendo players can join siblings Abi and Ben on a magical journey filled...
Dragon Quest – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
Before RPGs, 1986,to strong narrative. Sir-Tech’s Wizardry from 1981 dumped players into a massive 10-floor dungeon with little more than a sentence of congratulatory text for beating the game. The first Ultima came out the same year and switched players from a...
Review: Jupiter Fracture for the Commodore 64
In case you haven't heard, the classic Commodore has undergone a rebirth. Retro computer YouTuber Christian "Peri Fractic" Simpson managed to gather the support and financing to purchase the bits and pieces of Commodore held by other companies and bring them together...
Spider Maze 2 – Collect Diamonds and avoid Spiders in this new C64 game by The New Dimension in co-op with Blazon
Saberman is on the ball again for the retro gaming video community, as just recently he's uploaded a new gameplay video of a Commodore 64 game called ' Spider Maze 2 ' which was created by The New Dimension in co-op with Blazon. This game developed using Kick...
Gauntlet / Super Mario Bros. – by Ryan Burger & Noah LaPointe
I remember playing a ton of Gauntlet and gathering friends at the Fun Factory arcade in Valley West Mall. This game couldn’t really be played competitively against one another, since you all shared the mission of surviving long enough to make it through the level....
Five Sports Games That Have Us Wish Again For Simpler Times
Sports games today are all about lifelike graphics and realism, but once upon a time, the games were simpler and arguably far more fun to play. Lets take a look at five retro sports games that are better than their modern-day counterparts. PGA Tour Golf: To think that...
Empire Strikes Back – A C64 fan version by Megastyle has been released and it looks mighty impressive
Well, it’s that time of year again when we all suddenly become sci-fi nerds and amusingly misquote Star Wars for 24 hours, so to celebrate the geek in-joke turned global holiday that is Star Wars Day, we present you a brand new game for the C64 which is sure to excite...
Hydlide – Jeremy Parish
it’s almost certainly not with any sort of affection. A slow, primitive-looking grind of a game with repetitive music and confusing action, Hydlide came across as nothing so much as a terrible clone of The Legend of Zelda when it hit the NES in the spring of 1989....
Celeste – Rage inducing platformer for the Amiga by Paweł Juen Nowak
Developer Paweł Juen Nowak has began porting the challenging Pico8 platformer Celeste to the Commodore Amiga, designed to display using C2P techniques which necessitate a higher-powered processor for smooth gameplay. While running well on a 50MHz 060, the port...
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Micro Karting – A work in progress nod to Super Mario Kart for the Amiga [UPDATE]
If you've never heard of Super Mario Kart, then I guess you were living in a cave, as this game series which first appeared in 1992 on the SNES, was one of the most addictive arcade style racing games ever to appear on a TV screen. So to see someone try to create a...
Pit Fighter – by Todd Friedman
While I agree with that, 2 years before Mortal Kombat hit the scene, there was a breakthrough game featuring live-motion capture. This game was Pit Fighter. An underrated game in my opinion, Pit Fighter captures the reality of fighting in a video game. I remember...
Classic Kong – An Iconic arcade game now reimagined for the Atari Jaguar
In a exciting development for retro gaming enthusiasts, developer swapd0 who recently released the Atari Jaguar game called BurgerTom, has now unofficially released Classic Kong for the Atari Jaguar. This new homebrew project brings a faithful reimagining of the...
MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School
The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn't realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota...
A review of Resident Evil from Boss Fight Books
Every Boss Fight book tends to have a novel approach depending on the author, and Phillip J Reed is no different with his Resident Evil volume. In fact, his approach is distinctly unusual, with the praise for the originator of survival horror from 1996 veiled...
The Weird, Wonderful Magic of the Speak & Spell
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet....
IMPORTANT: change on Blog | Commodore
A new news item titled “C” You Soon – Commodore 64 Ultimate Line-Up Expands with C64C Edition Later this Year (dated April 28, 2026) was added to the What's New feed and includes a "News" link. https://commodore.net/news/ https://commodore.net/computer/...
Re-Introducing the C64C!
We knew from the start, it would be a race. From the moment the first Commodore 64 Ultimate arrived, the community was going to find a way to give their Ultimate the C64C 'Slimline' treatment. We knew you wanted it. We were hoping we could beat you to it. But it's...
Commando – This Hack/Mod of an 8bit classic looks rather super now on the ZX Spectrum
Saberman has contacted us to let us know that tiboh'24-26 has announced the release of a hack/mod of Commando for the ZX Spectrum. A new version of the game which not only overhauls the intro graphics, but it now features AY-Music which brings it more in line with...
The Ultima Series – by Jarrod Kailef
if you spent your entire lifetime doing so. From amazing modern masterpieces to the most primitive, barely playable first-generation games, it’s hard to determine what’s worth your time and what isn’t. But for old-school gamers like us, one of the best ways to...
Super Mario 64 – by Brett Weiss
It didn’t just revolutionize a franchise - it reshaped the entire video game industry, much like Super Mario Bros. had done more than a decade earlier. Just as the 1985 NES classic defined the blueprint for side-scrolling platformers, Super Mario 64 established the...
Xevious – by Jeremy Parish
Part of that discrepancy stems from the fact that the American console crash derailed Xevious’s journey. Atari Inc. manufactured and distributed the arcade machine here, but the company’s dissolution prevented the game from reaching eager audiences at home until well...
This Day In Video Game History
