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Squish Em (15-12-2007) (A2600 Game)

You are climbing a building, trying to reach the suitcase of cash at the top. Watch out for all the nasty critters that are trying to knock you off, and watch out for the falling bricks as well. If you can’t avoid the critters, or you need to relieve a little stress, you can always Squish ‘Em instead!

A PAL and NTSC version is available!

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Tangled Bugs (18-12-2007) (PPC Game)

TangledBugs is a remake of the good old Untangle game !

Nothing special in this version, just the arcade mode for now : start by untangling 6 bugs, then 10, 15, 20, etc… Until you give up !

This is still a WIP version, an update should come soon with highscores and level selection screen.

For those who find the lower levels a bit too easy, press Ok/Enter (depending on your PDA) to skip a level…

Code by Mollusk, graphics by DayDream.

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Shift (18-12-2007) (PPC Game)

Shift is a bit hard to take in hands on the first go, but once you pick it up you just can’t stop playing…

The rules are really basic : click on the left, right, upper, or lower part of the screen (or press the direction pad) to have all the blocks who can move in that direction… If you form groups of 3 or more blocks, they’ll disappear, etc…

To get huge scores, trying doing combos, not leaving a single round before exploding another group, etc… Easier said than done !

Code by Mollusk, graphics by AnarX

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Gianas Return WIP (GP2x misc)

The guys at the Giana’s Return webpage posted those sad news:

Things are not going well in life, we all know this situation…

Today there was another major drawback in the development history of Giana’s Return. The new graphic artist, who was supposed to do the tile-adjustments to match the themes in each world has been kicked by the project organizer.

Obviously the graphic artist took more work than he can handle, which slowed down everything. Also the fact a professional not taking backups of his harddisk, having a crash and then asking for a partitial resent of important files doesn’t make the best impression.

Considering we don’t want to have too many different graphics guys working on them, due to keeping a constant style, we are basically at zero again.

Life sucks…

For those who don’t know: Giana’s Return is a 2D side scrolling jump and run game and can be considered a sequel to “The great Giana Sisters”.

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Frog Feast (16-12-2007) (Coleco Vision Game)

Mark2008 is still busy with porting Frog Feast, a Frogger like game, over to the Coleco Vision.

Changes:

1. fix the high frog jump
2. put the score on the scoreboard (currrently its on the bottom of the screen).
3. optimize certain things that bog the animations down (original author has very clean looking code, but many of the loops are not necessary and just slowing things down).
4. put the sound back in.
5. splash animation
6. music on title screen
7. when going back to the title screen the 2nd time, keep scores on the score boards.

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Retrogaming Times Monthly Issue 43 (misc)

Retrogaming Times Monthly Issue 43 is out. It’s an online magazine about online gaming.

Content:

01. Attract Mode
02. The Many Faces of Miner 2049er
03. NES’Cade — Donkey Kong
04. Apple II Incider: Giving Thanks
05. Nintendo Realm
06. Mastering Sega – Bomber Raid
07. What if… Atari released the Famicom in the West (Part 1)
08. Game Over

Thanks to http://www.atariage.com for the news.

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