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Find the Beer!!! (2025) by Animated ALex for ZX Spectrum.

Lights out, torch on, grab what you can before the clock runs dry. A whole game crammed into 10 BASIC lines, shared as a type-in.

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Zzapped in the Butt SE (2025) by Richard of TND for Commodore 64.

Built for Zzap! 64 Micro Action issue 26 by patching the lost DX code via Action Replay. New sprites, PAL/NTSC and SD2IEC friendly.

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Fortified Zone 2 (2025) by Jaleco for Game Boy Color.

Masato and Mizuki are back: the fortress fell, but a worse project is underway. Two agents, three weapons, two-player mode and passwords.

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Balloon Caves (2026) by Naufr4g0 for VIC-20.

A love letter to the classic C64 hot air balloon games, now squeezing onto an unexpanded PAL machine. Collect 10 coins across three increasingly tricky maps, dodging obstacles in tight caves.

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AmiSeaFox (2025) by Amiten Games for Amiga OCS.

A submarine tribute to the Amiga’s 40th, inspired by the arcade classic SeaFox. Sink the entire enemy fleet before torpedoes or fuel run dry.

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Duck Hunt GB (2025) by Brilloa Games for Game Boy Color.

The NES Zapper classic, reworked for Game Boy Color and original Game Boy. New zones nod to Wild Gunman, and every zone gets its own original boss. A neat piece of Zapper history, revived.

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Carga de Profundidade (2025) by Teknamic Software for ZX Spectrum.

An alternate WWII: Portugal invaded, the navy cornered in the Azores. You command the NRP Douro, hunting U-boats with depth charges in 300 tense seconds. Speed and depth earn bonus points. One torpedo halves your score.

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Basterdale Farm (2025) by The Death Squad for ZX Spectrum.

A Sabre Wulf style maze chase: gather all 100 diamonds to buy back the farm. 128K music by Lee Bee.

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Oshinui Tune (2025) by megamittz for Game Boy Color.

What if a shmup was also a hiragana fill-in-the-blank puzzle? Shoot the wrong characters, complete the word, and out pops a plushie.

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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: 20 pages of Homebrew-Headlines! Mentioning over 120 fresh released titles!

Sorcerer Kid Adventure (MSX), Titan Ufo (MSX), Fast Food (GBC), Blasting Robots (LNX), PixFight (NES), Santa’s Fall 2 (C64), The Pretzelves (C64), Geometry Battle (PSX), Ryōshi Shinryaku (LNX), Skies High (DC), Chuck Norris Superkicks (GBC), Hitokiri (C64), Dragonfire (GBC), Sam.PR Explorer (MSX), Rhino Express GBA (GBA), Scrubby Scramble (NES), Bereft (C64), Carzilla (LNX), Pleasuredome (GBC), Final Spook (C64), Rat Splat (GBC), Kirai (NES), Frogs (ST), Rintivoorh (OCS), Bombero (CPC), Revenge of the Grinch (OCS), War Marbles Legacy (GEN), Spaceship Yastuna (LNX), Crystal Place (CPC), Tank in a Dungeon (ECS), Binary Battle (MSX), Feliz 2025 (GEN), Casino Pokies (CPC), Skynet Road to 1984 (ZXS), Soko Banana: Tinsel Island (NES), Golf Dash Extended (C64), Sonik GemDash (GB), Robo Race (MSX), Maze of the Robots (ZXS), Molotov (MSX), Light the LEDs (OCS), Worship Vector (DC), Unbound Fate (GBC), Jumping Llama (MSX), Weights and Crates Deluxe (C64), Snowy and the Candy Canes (GBC), The Storied Sword (DC), Take It Racing 3 (GBC), Christmas Crisis 1 (NES), Galacard Advance (GBA), Pepper Buster (CPC), Q*bert (MSX2), Poppie Land (MSX), Snake Boxer 5 (VCS), Happy Bat (AGA), Welcome Hawk (Demo) (GB), Fuji Tetris 68k (ST), Umi Colors (VCS), Big Drill (DC), Robo Escape (LNX), My Pet (VCS), Dream Ride (DC), Bunnito’s Feast (AGA), Fish (VCS), Racing (MSX2), Jungle Trouble (GBC), 21 Grams of Soul (CPC), Alpha Man (C64), Sapermania (OCS), The Eternal Sleep (DC), Underwater Memories (GBC), Christmas Match (COCO), Beach Box (DC), Saboteur! C16 (GBC), Tony: Montezuma’s Gold (ST), Order of Titan (DC), Xump 2 (LNX), Old West (VCS), DuckHopper (XLXE), Throbbing Headache DX (ZXS), Bounce Quest DC (DC), The Last Escape (DC), Kolotoc (CPC), Ninja Hashiru (VCS), Don’t touch my Eggs (CPC), Heartlight (ZXS), Rainbow Defender (VCS), Schreckenstein 64 (C64), Murph’s Big Puddle Fishin’ (DC), Grub-o-Grotto (LNX), Fernandino (GBC), Plane Lazy (ZXS), A 20 Second Platformer (Chapter 2) (GBC), Moji Space (MSX), Hafoc Tor (ZXS), The Atomic Cathedral (XLXE), Lost Days 0: Queen’s Dream (SAT), Snowmen Arrive on Mars (VCS), Bbomb Bbot (LNX), Defense Horizon (XLXE), Dead Metal 3 (AGA), Avery Breakout (XLXE), Casey’s Gold (VCS), No Future XL (ZXS), Santas Present Drop 4: Grunch’s Revenge (OCS), Furore (LNX), Bubble Bobble (XLXE), The Artefact (ST), Hammer Smasher (GBA), Sequence (GBC), Cosmic Blaster (OCS), Lost Eclipse (GBC), Elf-n-Squirrel (VCS), Tracker Hero (ECS), Fruit’Y (LNX), Kommando Urbex 2 (CPC), Starship Madness (DC), Racquetball (VCS), Cube Droid Holiday Special (MSX2), Black Hole Descent (DC), The House of Mystery (VCS), Pacific Air War (V20), Sybil: Halloween Defender (OCS), Escape From PETSCII Castle (PET), Rogül (XLXE), Eternal Meteors (XLXE)

Homebrew Reviews: Soiled Iron (C64), Drop of Abu-Cymbel (MSX), End of the World (C64), Catbox (MSX), Trick Truck (DC), Ami Robbo 2 (OCS), Captain Ishtar 2 (C64), Fire Fighter Tobik 3 (XLXE), Elite (V20) & Defuseball (DC), Encounter HD (ORIC), Sky Shapers (AGA), DCA3 (DC), Yoomp! (OCS), Lunatic Fighters (GEN), Doom64 (DC), Alien Intruder (DOS), Wizonk! Magic Arena (OCS), Mighty Steel Fighters GGP (CPC), Santa’s Work Out 4 (C64), Dungeons of Gomilandia (CPC), Return to Anctrayl (NES), Super Star Wars Holiday Special (GEN), Bearded Fantasy (ZXS), Double Dragon II (SNES), Cave Dave (GBC), Crimson Ties (GB), Tarzanete (CPC), Echoes of Atlantis (ZXS)

Stories: faSTEr (STE), VNEN — SMD Visual Novel Engine, Kikstart II (ZXS), Lotus Turbo Challenge Series (OCS), Dr.Future Remix-Special, EverDrive N8 Pro (Famicom Hardware)

Interview: Interview with Jonathan THOMAS (Chicane)

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