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VecLand (2025) by Wa59 for MS-DOS

Drops you into a minimalist vector lander, crafted for the DOSember Game Jam. Can you master the descent?

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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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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.

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!

Content:

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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Grabber (2025) by László Rajcsányi for Game Boy Color.

Grab treasures from maze corners, stash them in centre boxes. Monsters match your colour and kill on touch. Pass over an X to briefly flip the tables, but you only get two shots.

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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!

Content:

News-Corner: 26.5 pages of Homebrew-Headlines! Mentioning over 150 fresh released titles!

Homebrew Reviews: Lunar Lancer (GB), Flea 2 (NES), Portal Buster (C64), Marlow (ZXS), Taiyaki (GB), Fast Food 2 (AGA), Pokettohiro (GBC), Pyjamarama (MSX), Orbix (C64), Old Towers (NES), Mijadore 2 (ZXS), Tale of Evil (ECS), Inspector Waffles Early Days (GBC), Mushrooms in the Woods (C64), Whereisit? (JAG), Break Space (ZXS), Connect (OCS), F-16 (XL/XE), Cobol’s Laboratory (NES), Battle for Cronos (C64), Nitro (GBC), Rumba (ZXS), Em Busca dos Tesouros (VCS), Tiny Pixel Adventure (OCS), Maiden’s Extreme Fist (MSX2), Squarez (OCS), Monster Mayhem (CPC), Foal’s Creek (NES), Croco Folie &28 (CPC) & Lava Hero (COCO).

Stories: Cronela’s Mansion, S.E.U.C.K. for Commodore 64, Superfrog & The Monkey Island Series (1990-2022)

Interview: Interview with Francesco TERRACCIANO (Straynus)