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Missing Lands is a new NES homebrew game by cppchriscpp.

Missing Lands is a top-down action game featuring a frog in world with missing pieces. Your goal: to collect those pieces and restore your world.

Lunar Limit by pubby is an early 1980s-esque arcade shooter about blasting space ships and dodging bullets. In the game, you’re in control of a miniature version of planet earth; “Mini Earth”, and must use your faithful satellite; “The Moon Cannon”, to survive.

Team Disposables released their game Arlington Apple in an Interplanetary Pickle. It’s a short gravity defying platformer. Stuck on a small asteroid, prepare to frantically scramble over every available surface searching for the three crystals to power up your car and get off this rock.

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

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Hiding anti-Lotus 123 easter eggs in Excel, Windows 95 and why Bill Gates thought the Xbox was an insult with Microsoft’s former game publishing VP, Ed Fries!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-original-xbox-story-with-ed-fries-former-microsoft-gaming-vp-the-retro-hour-ep68

Team Pixelboy will kick the ColecoVision with Frostbite soon.

Part survivor, part architect, part nuts, Frostbite Bailey eats raw fish for sustenance but really dines on danger! Help him construct igloos by jumping on floating blocks of ice! Each igloo must be completed before the weather gets too cold, but this is certainly no easy task, as Frostbite must not only contend with water currents that make the ice blocks move in different directions, he must also avoid wild animals like snow geese, king crabs, killer clams and a bear that follows him like a shadow on the shore! Stay one step ahead of all the hazards and survive to reach the highest possible score!

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

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Brian Moriarty gives us the inside story on Infocom, LucasArts and Loom – will it ever get an official sequel or modern update? Plus some amazing stories of celebs at the Skywalker Ranch!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/loom-the-inside-story-with-brian-moriarty-the-retro-hour-ep67

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

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We chat to the Oliver Twins at the launch of Mystery World Dizzy, plus Jon Ritman gives us the story of classics like Batman, Head Over Heels and Match Day I & II!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/mystery-world-dizzy-launch-jon-ritman-interview-the-retro-hour-ep66

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

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We reminisce about Amiga demo scene Megademos, parties and more with Kim Frederiksen AKA Psycho/Budbrain!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/amiga-megademos-and-parties-with-psychobudbrain-the-retro-hour-ep65

Hermes, at least this is how his friends call him, is living in France, the country of love, but also the country known for it’s exquisite cuisine. One day Hermes had mood for a nice chicken leg, certainly a real men like Hermes, won’t go to the super market and get pre-packed chicken, no… it has to be a real one, slaughtered off by his own hand. This is, where our story starts… Chase the escaped chicken to catch it and prepare a great grilled leg piece you ever wont forget! Yummi! But hell… that chicken for sure is fast!

Changes:

– Reset to default also resets highscore now
– Level 33: Boss improvements, update recommended
– Highscore optimizing
– Fixed maps.rga size

Catharsis Theory by Cluster, released @ Revision 2017.