Retroguru are currently taking part in the Revision 2019 Game-Development Comeptition. The showed us a nice conversion of their puzzle game Xump for the Atari Lynx. The digital download is free, a cartridge release is planed later this year.

Dangan GB is a short simplistic boss-rush/bullet-hell shmup by snorpung and nordloef released for the Game Boy to celebrate the console’s 30th anniversary.

Release notes:

Dangan GB receives a small update containing a few bugfixes. The music has also been balanced a bit. The game drains less battery now, so if you already downloaded the game before and plan to play on real hardware; you might want to snag this revision.

Table Tennis Manager by Scheidle-Design is an emergent game that puts the player in charge of managing an entire table tennis team. Each player is provided with a fresh team consisting of young but untrained players and must now try to make it from the lowlands of the district league up to the national league. Not only does each player have to deal with various computer players, but with well over 1,000 human-led teams as well.

Classic SpikeDislike by Jayenkai has been released, and is available for Windows, Linux and Nintendo 3DS.   Bounce your way past all the spikes, and rank up a massive combo score as you go.

Orbital Annihilation by Jayenkai has been released, and is available for Windows, Linux and Nintendo 3DS.   Blast at the planets below, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.

Dangan GB is a short simplistic boss-rush/bullet-hell shmup by snorpung and nordloef released for the Game Boy to celebrate the console’s 30th anniversary.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #94 is out!

Futrinos by Jayenkai has been released, and is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX and Nintendo 3DS.   A space blasting maze game.
Shoot the Barrels. Save the World.

If you are into Sonic style games then na_th_an‘s latest NES homebrew project Espitene is clearly for you. The game has 12 regular stages and 6 boss stages. Collect emeralds and rings, avoid enemies and take care of the big bad ones.

Right now this game is in beta stage, so count with a few irregularities here and there but overall it’s a solid upcoming Mojon Twins production, created with their very own AGNES engine.

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It’s our third annual Christmas super quiz!

Paul Drury from Retro Gamer magazine and Oliver Wilmot return to try to keep their title as reigning quiz champions.

How will their fare against Ravi and Joe from The Retro Hour Podcast in a battle of video game and computer knowledge?!

Merry Christmas to all our loyal listeners, see you in 2019.