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Night Train Deluxe (2025) by Undefined Crew for ZX Spectrum.

A train dispatcher sim with a builder’s twist: lay your own track and grow a railway empire on 8-bit hardware.

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Frostland (2025) by Skorik Roman for ZX Spectrum.

Survival on a frozen island: melt ice for water, raise houses, hire settlers, and hold the line when the cyclones hit. A chilly city-builder for the speccy.

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Generals (2025) by Makurin Boris Vasilievich for ZX Spectrum.

Two-player strategy: explore the map, seize Cities, Mines and Factories, raise armies, out-general your rival. Press L to begin.

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Devastator (2025) by backtothe8bits for VIC-20.

One life, bombs below, and a search for a forgotten childhood game. The dev built their own version after years of hunting for the original. Any old-timers recognise it?

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BrewOtaku is a retro homebrew gaming magazine “where new games keep old systems alive”. We cover fresh games for old consoles, handhelds, and computers. Dealing with limitations of very old systems is a passion and an art in itself, and still, coders out there can get the most out of the least and release fresh games regular!

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News-Corner: 28 pages of Homebrew-Headlines! Mentioning over 150 fresh released titles!

Beyond the Door (MULTI), Mazinger 85 (VCS), Maze 80 (MSX), SnailRace (C64), Super Curandera Cumbiambera (GBC), Bomb Squad (XLXE), B-Breakout (Plus/4), Battleship 10Liner (C64), Pac-10Liner (XLXE), Guess the Number (XLXE), PixPlus (GB), Blasting Robots (GBA), Skelly Shift (GB), The Last Oath (CPC), Yoomp!64 (C64), Outlaw Word Rodeo (GBC), Tetris Championship Edition (ZXS), Ladder’s Room (GEN), Pac-Line Panic (VCS), Transylvanian Castle (CPC), Oscar San 2600 (VCS), Safe Zone (C64), Rightris (VCS), Drone Attack (VCS), Fightris (VCS), Sea Control (VCS), Wood of Despair (VCS), Boom! (AGA), Booster_Bot (GBA), Super Thing Get (GBC), Color Clash (GBC), Sokoban Dragon (GBC), Wow Mummy! (GB), The Great Library Tower (GB), Matrix (Plus/4), JURL (ZXS), Guido (GBC), Nifty Lifty (GBC), Fish Blender (NES), Feral Perry’s Puzzle Quest (NES), Master Piece (ZXS), GraviCat (GBC), Battle City (SMS), Block’em Sock’em (SG1K), Impossamal (CPC), Siikasaurus (SAT), Mille (ZXS), Fast Eddie (GBC), Soko-Ban (OCS), Echa un culin (ZXS), Airline Boss 2 (BBCM), Math Gauntlet (ZXS), Run Barbarian Run (OCS), Bomber! (AQUA), MoonRN (ZXS), Munchy (VIC20), Tower of Evil (GB), The Last Z-8 (C64), SimonSaysTouchMe AI (VCS), A is for Aardvark (C64), Lader (MULTI), ZX Stock Exchange (ZXS), Beauty Contest (MULTI), TurnRight! (E128), FujiNet Battleship! (XLXE), Tiles (C64), Chase (C64), Last Cop Standing (GB), Trippy Tea (C64), Two Canaries Pecking (Plus/4), Wall81 (ZXS), Conveyor Belt (TRS80), Softball (TRS80), BBSMaze (TRS80), 10 Line Dino (ZX81), Barcode Battle (ZXS), Pythonisa (MSX), Subscan (ORIC), Invasion in Tau-4 (VCS), Dojo Floats (MULTI), Ascii Tank (ORIC), Panzerjaeger (C64), Egbert (GB), Ringdash Duo 3DS (3DS), Wordle (XLXE), 2048 (XLXE), Castle Quest (AII), Repetition (C64), Pirates of the Black Seas (C64), Dark Foundation (GBC), XenoRogue (C64), Beebul (GBC), Growth’s Adventure (GBC), Freeway (GBC), Hey, Taxi! (C64), Formula V20 1981 (VIC20), Panelix (GBA), Super Star Trek (VIC20), They Killed My Little One (ZXS), Obake (MSX), Star Dust Wars Directors Cut (CD32), Neptune’s Caverns – Enhanced (C64), Sand-Stormer (Plus/4), Revisiting the Exit (CPC), Memo64 (C64), Chess10 (BBCM), Penguin Migrants (C64), Aquariorb (AQUA), Wave Invaders (ZXS), Cabyrinth (MSX), Binary Battle (MSX), Sir Ababol (GEN), La Manula 2 (ZXS), Rescued (MSX2), Starship (C64), Balloon Rescue (C64), Marlow in Apocalyptic Acid World (MSX), Rogue Chess (ZXS), Godspeed Xtended (NES), Race Race Race (VCS), Inventory Full (GBC), JetPac Miner (ZXS), Jumping Jack’Son (SMS), Welcome to Chump Town!! (ENT/ZXS), Throbby Heartache (ENT), Noon 30 Shovel Duck Featuring Dollar Bill (ENT), Ultimate Dungeon Escape (SMS), Yawi (SG1000), Whirlybird 10Liner (C64), Mini Golf (XLXE), ACK-ACK-REC (TRS80), count cyan! (MSX), Chicken (BBCM), Space Prospector (Plus/4), Chicky’s Easter Egg Hunt (NES), El Cartero (C64), Better Dead Than Zed (ECS), Old Towers (JAG), Sinerunner (VCS), Snek (OCS), Skeet Shooting (VCS), Alentejo: Tinto’s Law (GB), The Mariana Sequence (NES), Zookeeper (C64), Cosmic Payback (ZX81), Masken 1k (ZX81), UfoTofU (Plus/4), Fish Tycoon (C64), Ziona Quest 2 (ZXS), Squirrel Falls (GB), 64Beats (N64), Underground Grind (N64), Destroy! (N64), Furball (N64), Halcyon Hexagons & Hot Hot Hexagons (N64), Holes (N64), Sword Strike (N64), Land Grab (N64), Larceny (N64), Le Tohu-Bohu (N64), Lucker’s Arena (N64), Mallard (N64), May the Best Snowman Win (N64), Paintball (N64), Sauna Rush (N64), Sneks (N64), The Third Arm (N64), Downland (TRS80)

Homebrew Reviews: Kuusneppis (C64), Frankee Goes Home (ZXS), Prisonela (GEN), NEONnoir GBA (GBA), Zezito and the Lost Stars (ELK), Evil Dungeon III: Curse of the Sorcerer (C64), Dungeons & DoomKnights (NES), Olly (GBC), The Trial of Kharzoid (NES), Ladybird (C64), Trapped in the Tomb (ECS), Golden Axe (NG), Plyuk (ZXS), A Solution (GB), Avalan (C64), Ultima III (VIC20), Throbbing Headache DX (ZXS), Pjusk (OCS), Iron Man (SMS), Fungus Forest (GBA), Backwards Quest (NES), Coin Rush (N64), Bonsai Quest (ZXS), SpaceWaves (N64), Hydra Harmonics (N64), Dark Shadows of Sergoth (ECS), Tony: Montezuma’s Gold (GBA), My Friendly Little Island DX (GBC), Bomb Jack Extra Sugar (CPC), Roland Retires (CPC), Mike Mech 2 (C64), DevWill Too Prologue (GEN)

Stories: NESFab — Coding for the NES, Amiga Forever 11 (Windows), Yume Penguin Monogatari (Famicom), Kid Gloves Series (Amiga OCS & Atari ST), Master System EverDrive X7

Interview: Interview with Cowboy Bumbiss / Spacebot Interactive.

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Forest Escape: A Knight’s Quest (2025) by IrataHack & Team for C.

After fleeing a haunted castle, tiny knight Wee must find four keys in an enchanted forest. Glowing spiders, circling bats, and magical shrooms that aid or hinder your path. Can he unlock the chests and escape before time runs out?

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Danger Dennis (2025) by TSA Society for Commodore 64.

A C64 port of the in-progress Amiga game: Dennis drops his popcorn on gaming night, and a gust of wind scatters it citywide. Collect every kernel, dodge monsters, reach the door.

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Vault of Seraphim (2026) by natthrafn for Commodore 64.

A wizard dares to descend beneath the Black Mountains, chasing the lost treasures of the Cherubim. Four new caves, a fresh movement system, plus all the original Catacombs of Cherubim included. Old caves, new legs.

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Book of Five Rings by the_dannobot is a Game for Atari 2600.

Inspired by Musashi Musashino, Hiroshige, and the original Bushido Blade, this game boils swordfighting to its brutal core: get your blade into the opponent, and the first to die, loses.

Paku Paku (2025) by Shoemaker’s Last Software for TRS-80.

Kenta Cho’s one-button arcade hit, now in 6809 assembly for CoCo and MC-10. Eat dots, chase a speeding ghost.

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