Archive for May, 2018

Bootee is a brandnew Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom game by The Mojon Twins! If you don’t, you should know, you will bounce... and bounce and bounce and bounce. Basically, you will control Cheril in a big leather boot hopping around a dark castle. Bouncing non-stop!

Do you have what it takes to find the Five Crimson Emblem Seals to defeat the Black Slayer? The Holy Diver cartridge has been resurrected, nearly 30 years after its original release in Japan. Published by Retro-Bit®, the Holy Diver Collector’s Edition is loaded with exclusive collectibles and available for a limited time only. Costs are $59.99.

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

Orange Island is a new NES game in development. The authors already play around getting a nice physical prepared.

SecondBASIC is Windows based BASIC compiler targeted for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Based off of the BEX library created by Joseph Norman, SecondBASIC brings a familiarity to those who are familiar with BEX while adding some additional commands and built in tools to help aid in the development of your projects. Soon with Sega 32x support!

Spout is a small, abstract shooting game from Japanese developer kuni. EXL's port of Spout for Android uses rendering the video context of the game to textures, which are displayed using OpenGL ES. There are added touch control and some game engine improvements.

EXL ported AstroSmash from Java ME (J2ME) MIDlet to Android using SurfaceView Canvas drawing. He added touch controls and game engine improvements. A JAVA decompiler has been used to understand the game logic and guarantee original game behavior.

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming.

Snooder 21 by EXL is remake of very popular Motorola's standard card game: Snood™ 21 for Android. It's a card game.

Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter DOS game, released in 1993 by Epic MegaGames (now called Epic Games). It was mostly coded by Ken Silverman, who went on to design the Build engine that was used for rendering a first-person viewpoint in Apogee Software's Duke Nukem 3D. It consists of three episodes, the first of which was released as shareware. [Text from Wikipedia]