The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

Hiding anti-Lotus 123 easter eggs in Excel, Windows 95 and why Bill Gates thought the Xbox was an insult with Microsoft’s former game publishing VP, Ed Fries!

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Team Pixelboy will kick the ColecoVision with Frostbite soon.

Part survivor, part architect, part nuts, Frostbite Bailey eats raw fish for sustenance but really dines on danger! Help him construct igloos by jumping on floating blocks of ice! Each igloo must be completed before the weather gets too cold, but this is certainly no easy task, as Frostbite must not only contend with water currents that make the ice blocks move in different directions, he must also avoid wild animals like snow geese, king crabs, killer clams and a bear that follows him like a shadow on the shore! Stay one step ahead of all the hazards and survive to reach the highest possible score!

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

Brian Moriarty gives us the inside story on Infocom, LucasArts and Loom – will it ever get an official sequel or modern update? Plus some amazing stories of celebs at the Skywalker Ranch!

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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We chat to the Oliver Twins at the launch of Mystery World Dizzy, plus Jon Ritman gives us the story of classics like Batman, Head Over Heels and Match Day I & II!

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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We reminisce about Amiga demo scene Megademos, parties and more with Kim Frederiksen AKA Psycho/Budbrain!

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Hermes, at least this is how his friends call him, is living in France, the country of love, but also the country known for it’s exquisite cuisine. One day Hermes had mood for a nice chicken leg, certainly a real men like Hermes, won’t go to the super market and get pre-packed chicken, no… it has to be a real one, slaughtered off by his own hand. This is, where our story starts… Chase the escaped chicken to catch it and prepare a great grilled leg piece you ever wont forget! Yummi! But hell… that chicken for sure is fast!

Changes:

– Reset to default also resets highscore now
– Level 33: Boss improvements, update recommended
– Highscore optimizing
– Fixed maps.rga size

Catharsis Theory by Cluster, released @ Revision 2017.

Hermes is an extraordinary Jump’n Run game covering bad taste humor. If you feel offended by crude and dirty humor you may run away now. The game also features pixel violence and promotes the consumption of meat. If you are a hardcore vegetarian, you might very much dislike the game or just have a good laugh.

Hermes, at least this is how his friends call him, is living in France, the country of love, but also the country known for it’s exquisite cuisine. One day Hermes had mood for a nice chicken leg, certainly a real men like Hermes, won’t go to the super market and get pre-packed chicken, no… it has to be a real one, slaughtered off by his own hand. This is, where our story starts…

Chase the escaped chicken to catch it and prepare a great grilled leg piece you ever wont forget! Yummi! But hell… that chicken for sure is fast!

The team:
Lars Persson (AnotherGuest) Code, Beta-Test – Android Port, Win32 Port
Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote) Producer, Beta-Test, Levels
Denny Müller (Mulle) Levels, Trailer, Beta-Test
Krzysztof Matys (Koyot1222) Graphics, Character Design
Jan Jensen (Flarfy) Additional Graphics
Roland Voss (Triace) Music
Johan Letfors (Vedder) Music
Gisberto ‘nop90’ Rondinella – Nintendo 3DS Port
Fabio ‘oibaf’ Olimpieri – Wii Port

Retroguru comes up with another surprise this weekend. Xump 2 is yet another entry at Revision 2017, currently ongoing.

It’s a follow up of their game Xump, but you it’s not Holger whom you take controls, now it’s Misuki. Destroy blocks systematically to clear another 48 fields. Puzzle fun ahead! A real physical cart will follow, once the game is final.

Coded by Florent ‘x7r’, combined with music by Jakub ‘AceMan’ Szelag and grahics by Christian ‘Ragnarok’ Damm.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #73 is out!