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

Content:

We talk to the amazing Peter Oliphant about classics like Stonekeep and Lexi-Cross, working at Mattel Electronics and life as a child actor.

Sky Gladiators is a PICO-8 game by Le_BuG. You’re a gladiator and your purpose is to push your opponents off the platform. For that you need to get the right angle, adjust your power and rush toward the enemies. There is a single player mode with AI bots, but also multi player possibility.

Matthias Bock is working on a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom game named Wolfling Zero. On his Twitter-Account he keeps us up to date!

Owen still works on Newo Fox for Nintendo’s Wii.

Quote:

So I finally got the subdivisions to line up after hardcoding a size that can fit into every cell without remainder. Looked like a repeated grid so I rotated every piece by 90 deg on the y axis.

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

This week the government is selling some beat up arcade games and we’re prank calling tech support. We wonder if the fans of Chrono Trigger care more about it than SquareEnix does. We celebrate the founding of Dragon Quest’s developers and we’ve got a pair of classic arcade shooters in this episode of the Retro League.

Jump is an old school PICO-8 button masher game by mrjonhudson. This game is part of the authors Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and he would grateful if you can fill a tiny survey about the game to help pushing the project further!

kittenm4ster updated his PICO-8 game Video Poker. It’s a standard 9/6 Jacks or better video poker.

Waddleball is a PICO-8 game by eggnog. You are Waddleduck, a chubby duck with the heart of a champion! Prove your mettle in 6 minigames by booting moles, stomping on tiles and destroying asteroids! Or, relax in free-play mode and kick some balls around.

Chris Cacciatore is still working on his NES platform game Nebs & Debs.

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Just finished a draft of the canon plant level for Nebs ‘n Debs. Now to fix some bugs I’ve been putting off…. #nesdev #gamedev

Odeio Carros is a Sega Genesis game by Pedro Paiva, Bruno Ferreira and Fabio Manna. Push cars of the same colors together!

Thanks to @laudelino7 for the hint.