News

Mikael Tillander has been interviewed by the chaps at Retro Video Gamer. If you want to find out more about Mikael’s latest Genesis Game Tänzer go and have a read! So far we at PDRoms referred to the game as “Unnamed Genesis Game by Mikael Tillander”.

Did you miss the deadline to acquire a copy of Vegetablets Go for NES/Famicom by Japanese delevoper Tulip House?

There is another batch! Quote from Twitter:

These will be available at 23:00 JST on April 15. This time you can also buy from abroad. Please select “buy from abroad” option. 4月15日 23:00 より販売いたします。

Matthias Bock shows us the title screen of his Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom game named Wolfling Zero. There seems to be a C64 version coming too, just on a side note.

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.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/mattel-electronics-to-interplay-with-peter-oliphant-the-retro-hour-ep117

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.