The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We talk to Jerry Buckner about the classic video game song Pac-Man Fever, working with Disney on Wreck-It Ralph and the early arcade scene.

Bomb The Pentominos is an Android puzzle game by Belldin Games. The game itself is ad-supported.

The goal of the game is to fit the Pentominos and Tetrominos in a way that they make full rows, which when is full, will be deleted and gives space for more pieces. Full rows also is the only way of scoring in the game.

The challenge is that the game also will go faster after some time and also after each 10 filled rows, which makes it real hard to survive at some speed. The way of scoring big is to build holes for one single piece that makes 4 full rows, but waiting for the right piece to make that gasp filled, may also fill up the board quick.

Game ends when there isn’t place for more pieces.

FlippyRunner is an arcade game for Android by MIKHArcade. Avoid obstacles by passing through opposite side of obstacles.

Retro Game Designer is live on Kickstarter! Create your own video games for Sega Megadrive / Genesis, Dreamcast, Playstation 1 & Atari Jaguar! No to very little coding skills will be needed.

Supporter versions start from 30 EUR to export for one system, but will feature a nag screen. A full fledged license will be 500 EUR and include commercial usage like selling your game.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #86 is out!

Realms of Idle is a strategy game for Android by ilMare Games.

Release notes:

– Added Achievements!

Marat Fayzullin updated his Coleco Vision emulator ColEm for Android devices.

Changes:

* Released free ColEm 4.5 for Windows and Linux.
* Added battery-backed SRAM emulation (Lord Of The Dungeon works).
* Fixed saved state compatibility between 32bit and 64bit systems.

This is a free, limited version of ColEm that may show ads and nag you to buy the full version. For the latest, full, ad-free version, with better joystick, network play, and the ability to share your saved game play with other users, get ColEm Deluxe.

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage. Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and modifiable game engine made by Senile Team and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “modifiable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Changes:

– fixed bug: num of plugged joystick > max num supported joystick_scan
– improved detection of joystick for android in SDLActivity.java mapping DPAD to keyboard buttons
– improved Android Hats/Axes detection add it into PollEvent() events
– added plug and play feature.

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage. Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and modifiable game engine made by Senile Team and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “modifiable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Changes:

– fixed bug: num of plugged joystick > max num supported joystick_scan
– improved detection of joystick for android in SDLActivity.java mapping DPAD to keyboard buttons
– improved Android Hats/Axes detection add it into PollEvent() events
– added plug and play feature.

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage. Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and modifiable game engine made by Senile Team and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “modifiable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Changes:

– fixed bug: num of plugged joystick > max num supported joystick_scan
– improved detection of joystick for android in SDLActivity.java mapping DPAD to keyboard buttons
– improved Android Hats/Axes detection add it into PollEvent() events
– added plug and play feature.