The Incredible Platformer is an updated iOS game from the Austrian developers at Impossibru. In this combination of physics machine puzzlers and traditional platformers, use the provided items to guide your player(s) safely from start to exit. This game is free, has no ingame advertising and you don’t have any ingame purchases as well. It’s a totally 100% free game!

Release notes:

Optimize gameplay experience on iPad screens and on iPhone X

The Incredible Platformer is an updated Android game from the Austrian developers at Impossibru. In this combination of physics machine puzzlers and traditional platformers, use the provided items to guide your player(s) safely from start to exit. This game is free, has no ingame advertising and you don’t have any ingame purchases as well and the Android version does not ask for any kind of permissions. It’s a totally 100% free game!

Changes:

– Optimize gameplay on tablet screens
– Improve levels and provide a smoother game experience

The Indigo Operating System turns your Mega Drive into a computer! It’s currently in early stages of development so don’t expect much.

Chris Read, aka atari2600land, works on a new Game Boy game called ten pest.. It’s a shooting game where you’re in space and shoot different UFOs coming at you. You’re on a fixed Y axis, but you can move around the X axis by pressing left or right. Pressing up and down changes the position the ship is facing. The aliens come from the bottom or top and move towards the center. The object is to not make them reach the center of the screen. Also, some UFOs shoot at you, so if you get hit by a laser, the game can end that way too.

The Pre-Orders for Sydney Hunter & The Caverns of Death are now open. First the Kickstarter copies will be supplied to all of backers, but extras are available for pre-order now and will ship in March afterwards.

Armed only with his trusty boomerang, Sydney must navigate dark caverns while avoiding bats, ghosts, hot lava and other obstacles. If you can survive all 12 caverns, you will be able to win your freedom!

iPad Genome MIDI Sequencer and TouchOSC controlling the soundchip of a SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis via the GenMDM MIDI device using the iRig MIDI 2 iOS MIDI Interface. With a cameo from Kira.

Six minutes of raw gameplay footage from the upcoming sequel to Eskimo Bob – Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure!

The Homebrew Launcher v3.0.0 has been released for the Nintendo Switch. This only works on Switch firmware 3.0.0, you can update to 3.0.0 with a game, no downgrading from a higher firmware is currently possible. This allows the user to run homebrew on the Switch, piracy is not an option.

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game and ports to other systems in the following years. [Text from Wikipedia]

Notes for the 3DS release by nop90:

The 3DS console is too small for long text (like help page and credit page) I’ll try to implement some paging in a future release. Running the game on Citra, saving a game fails and exiting the program hangs Citra, but on a real 3DS everything works fine.

The game is released only in 3dsx format because there are some things to test (and probably fix) in the CIA. For the text input I used an old project of mine for a 3DS SW keyboard from 2014.

Sources and releases on my GitHub (https://github.com/nop90/Colossal-Cave-Adventure-2.5-for-3ds)

Happy exploring the cave!

Retro Asylum #178 is here!

Content:

Episode 178 sees Paul and Chris take a trip to the Dark Side with Star Wars actor Christian Simpson. No we don’t mean the C64, but Christian is famous for standing in for Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker and also Episode I’s Gavyn Sykes among many other roles across the Star Wars film and game universe.

We chat with Christian about his film work and how he now doubles down on his love of micros and his growing presence in the community through his burgeoning retro maintenance videos.