Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

Trolli Pinball is a pinball game with cult potential, allowing users in search of more than a classic pinball machine to enjoy themselves to the fullest. Level one’s Halloween World sees the introduction of the “Glotzer,” (Pop Eye) a horrifying fruit gum which – in place of a regular pinball – floats through a seemingly infinite area full of exciting detail and spectacular effects. Gathering enough “Dracula-Zähne, (Dracula teeth) “Fledermäuse,” (Bats) “Trolli-Burger” or “Saure Glühwürmchen” (Sour Glowworms) will help to ring the Trolli alarm and reach new high scores at breakneck speed. A game of gruesome fun leaving users hungry for more!

Mbrane is a game of stunning simplicity and elegant complexity. Harnessing the power of Sudoku, Mbrane transforms the puzzle into a multiplayer, deterministic strategy game of pure skill. In the same class as games like Chess, Go & Othello, Mbrane takes strategy to a new level. Gameplay combines the excitement of Risk with the purity of Chess in a classic contest of power & influence.

Proliferate by Aven Labs is a strategy board game played by two people. The goal of the game is to as rapidly as possible expand your colony of digital cells. To do this you must position your cells strategically so that you can both attack your opponent and defend your own cells.

Mr. Boom is a Bomberman clone for the RetroArch platform and was converted from DOS assembly using asm2c. The source code can be found here. Responsible for the Pandora port is ptitSeb.

POWDER is a Rogue-like game, which is not a port of an existing Rogue-like. It is built around re-playability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait.

Hatari is an excellent Atari ST emulator, ported to Pandora by magic_sam.

In this third episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte reviews some items that were left unclear from the last stream, and then discussed how to add entities into the game.

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

nop90 updated Retroguru's Fruit'Y for the Nintendo Switch to v0.2 Alpha. It plays a lot better and is a recommended update. Sound issues are left to improve.

In this second episode of NES Programming Michael Chiaramonte moves code out of the VBLANK interrupt into the main execution loop.