I wanted to take a look this week at an unusual arcade release from 1989, Sega’s Super Circuit. This hybrid arcade title took the concept of first person driving and ramped up the immersion, to give players a real world birds eye view of racing agai …

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… And yes, I know we’ve reached a hundred of these, but on the basis I did absol …

AttachmentSize printtok.c4.82 KB Hi!  I'm working on a text adventure for cc65 called Adventures on Planet Smir 3, Episode 1.  Right now, only Chapter 1 is mostly written.  :(  I have a C64 version and a Plus4 version online.  If you want, I …

Hi!  I am working on a WIP text adventure for the C64 and Plus4 and want to port it to the Apple2enh.  The text adventure updates a scoreboard on the top of the screen every time it asks for input.  It is written in cc65 C.  Before it prints the scoreb …

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… Just like last week though, we’re going to start with something that’ …

Platform: Arcade Year: 1981 I’ve got a love-hate relationship with this legendary arcade shoot-‘em-up. Crikey, I imagine that practically everybody has a love-hate relationship with Defender, bar those elite gamers with godlike joystick skills. Alas, …

Out this weekend on HULU is the movie “Pinball – The Man Who Saved the Game”. This movie tells the tale of pinball legend, Roger Sharpe. I highly recommend watching this to get a great history of the early pinball days.  On July 19th, 2 …

It’s really well done. The scoreboard is an LCD but they kept all the animations subtle so it looks like an animated back glass with score reels. Combined with the retro style art and old school cabinet design, it pulls it off really well. I wasn’ …

Hi! I was inspired to start debugging my AdvSkel65 program by a member of the AtariAge forums to fix some bugs in my AdvSkel65 and AdvSkelVic65 programs early to fix some bugs in the Atari versions of AdvSkel65. Right now, I'm debugging the 128k Plus4 v …

ChuChu Rocket was the first big puzzle title released for the Sega Dreamcast console. It was designed by the creative forces at Sonic team, and enthusiasts of the system quickly flocked to it. The problem? The Sega Dreamcast was largely a failure in the h …

Ah, Radirgy. One of a handful of high-quality shoot 'em ups developed by MileStone Inc. to grace the Dreamcast in Japan, Radirgy boasts a colourful cel-shaded anime style, and a ridiculous plot that follows a protagonist who is allergic to radio waves …