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Doom Patrol is yet another game by Atari VCS developer winkdot.

As a member of the United Astrocorporation Unlimited (UAU) your mission is to infiltrate the Technotechnics base and destroy their super weapon controlling a tank. In order to penetrate the base, you must obtain both keys and then make a dash to destroy the super weapon. The Technotechnics base walls are deadly, avoid them. The base also has automatic random wall defense that will appear in a random fashion. Avoid them. The super weapon must be hit five times in order to be destroyed.

Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It is meant to be used for editing maps of any tile-based game, be it an RPG, a platformer or a Breakout clone. The program is very flexible, for example there are no restrictions on map size, tile size or the number of layers or tiles. Also, it allows arbitrary properties to be set on the map, its layers, the tiles or on the objects. Its map format (TMX) is relatively easy to understand and allows a map to use multiple tilesets while also allowing each tileset to grow or shrink as necessary later. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Newo Asteroids by Owen is a game made in the style of classic Asteroids. In 2064 on a Wednesday, aliens disturb the asteroid belt sending asteroids hurdling towards the earth. It is your job to destroy every last asteroid in the solar system and bring peace to the galaxy.

Changes:

* Fixed Enemy A.I. and movement
* Added New Difficulty: Dogfight
* Added 5 new achievements
* Minor Bug fixes and optimizations

ORB is an Atari VCS game by winkdot. The planet Orb can be a dangerous place full of mystery. The Alliance has lost many ships while trying to explore the planet. Too many to count. It will be your mission to rescue downed pilots and return them to the mothership.

Release notes by winkdot:

A ton of code shuffling in this one. The game no longer exceeds scan lines unless you do a Select/Reset on it. I felt this is acceptable. Some graphic changes, some enemy logic changes, additional animation. The ground WILL now harm your ship so try and avoid it. As always, let me know if you see problems.

Help Violence Pingouin to slaughter few robots. Another fine work by djcc including source code for those who are interested.

djcc coded Pingouin Rose for his, at this time, three year old daughter. It’s a game where the player brings stuffed toys (mostly penguins) back to the house. Kindly note this game was written for a small child, so it might not entertain you a lot, but your child! Source code is available!

Pingouin Bleu by djcc is a horizontal shooter game featuring a penguin. Unfortunately the game is rather short, but never the less worth a look or two.

Papi Commando is a rather new Genesis game by french developer Vetea. This action game support two players at once and features a big boss at the end.

Rockbot is a Megaman fan game with level editor.

Changes:

* allow user to set up/down/left/right keys in input config.
* the input configuration will be applied only when the user leaves the config menu.
* fix editor release version crashing in Windows platform.
* faster screen transition in Android.
* do not allow player to shot more projectiles after firing an amor-piece special one.
* check the maximum number of projectiles depending on type, weapon or normal.
* if jump height surpasses 80% of total height, continue jumping even if player releases the jump button.
* new object-type for last boss capsule, fixing the old bug of player vanishing on last stage after beating all 8-bosses.
* do not allow player to jump while on push-back.
* reduce push-back duration and movement.
* adjust hit animation to endure only while player is intangible.
* change Dynamite’s AI*, so it won’t dash when hit as it makes the fight too unfair.
* Shocker’s projectiles must use sin trajectory.
* new graphics for some stages and adjusts in tiles, tileset and map backgrounds.

Do you love Saber Rider? You do? You love the Dreamcast or the PC-Engine? You Do? Read on…

Team Saber Rider currently collects money via Kickstarter to realize a run’n’gun shoot-em-up game based on and licensed from the original 1986 animated space western series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs!

For only 49 US$ (without shipping) you could either get a physical Dreamcast copy or a physical PC-Engine copy. The funding looks good so far, but only 8 days to go!