Desert Drive is a PICO-8 game by beepyeah. Once there was a square, fenced-off area in the desert. Off-road vehicles loved to drive around it in circles and win the top prize!! Maybe you could do it too!
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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.
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We get the story of Killer Instinct, TimeSplitters and GoldenEye 007 with Rare’s resident sound man, Graeme Norgate!
https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/killer-instinct-timesplitters-with-graeme-norgate-the-retro-hour-ep121
Fork Parker’s Crunch Out is a collaboration between Mega Cat Studios, Devolver Digital, and Take This for the label’s first-ever Super Nintendo Entertainment System release starring the company’s larger than life CFO, Fork Parker. The game aims to raise awareness of the all too real issue of game dev crunch through a playful look at the pressures of game development, exaggerated by the menace that is a game publisher executive.
Retro Video Gamer (RVG) interviews the fabulous Senile Team.
Taco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom has more progress to show. A world map is now available.
Bootee is a brandnew Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom game by The Mojon Twins! Watch the date: 15th May 2018! Three ingame shots were made public, here is one of them. If you want to see the other two, follow and check the link.
Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming.
NES Programming #26 - We scrollin', I'm loadin'
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In this episode, I was working on getting tiles loaded from the metatiles into the nametable as we scrolled. We got that work mostly the way I wanted (only on a single metatile column, though) and ran into a strange problem where the status bar flickers every time we load another row. I tried to figure out the issue, but I had to leave it for now. I’ll research and pick it up on Thursday.
Brilliant Pebbles is a commercial NES / Famicom game by Retro Wonder Workers from 2017. Guide a ship through outer space while destroying flying rocks. Get hit by a rock and your ship blows apart! Challenge yourself or friends to earn the highest score! This game is inspired partly by the arcade game Asteroids. The game costs 34.99 USD.
Tower Defense 1990 is a new commercial NES / Famicom game by Retro Wonder Workers. It’s a castle defense game. Defend the peasants in your castle from hoards of approaching enemies. Build towers which shoot projectiles. Collect coins and gems, and upgrade the towers for even more firepower. Lose all your peasants and it’s game over!
Although the game seems still in development, a person on Twitter claimed to recieved his professional copy of the game. So it can’t take too much time to be ready available for everyone.
The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.
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This week on The Retro League we tackle the hard questions like – does the world work like a Pac-Man maze or are some people just trolling for profit? Is Tomb Raider an all-time great game or overrated? Is this rumored Neo Geo Mini a good idea? And does a game designed for 6 year-olds hold up today? Listen to find out the answers to these questions and more.