ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

Find the changelog here: https://www.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/1.8.1/ReleaseNotes

https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #54 is out!

https://www.sendspace.com/file/wukkxc

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #53 is out!

https://www.sendspace.com/file/1ul63x

French developer Vetea updated his Mega Drive / Genesis game Bomb on Basic City. Help Papi Commando bombing down buildings using the gravity or “Tetris” destruction mode.

Changes:

– New Menu ! Now you can choose the difficulty level in game ( Easy, Normal, Hard ) and the Init of the SRAM Game’s DATA.
– Save gestion for each Zone / Difficulty.
– New Zone 4 : The old Quarter.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251258-new-homebrew-genesis-game-bomb-on-basic-city/

Xenocider is a 3D arcade action game with retro-futuristic aesthetics, currently in development for the Dreamcast as the chosen main platform by Retro Sumus. The game tells the story of Xara, a cyborg from a remote planet turned into the ultimate weapon of mass destruction and ethnic cleansing thanks to her superhuman strength and speed and her combat skills in extreme environments.

http://retrosumus.com/projects/xenocider/

Pedro76 and nivarel worked on Master of the Labyrinth for the Sega Master System. It’s an tiny RPG/adventure game reminding on Eye of the Beholder.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/15996-CodingCompetition2016MasterOfTheLabyrinthByPedro76

Twin Maze is yet another game by Haroldo Pinheiro, which is unfortunately not yet complete. It was intended to make it a simultaneous two player first person maze game, with competitive modes (deathmatch and race) and cooperative modes (vs monsters). Due to the authors time constraints, though, it is, for now, more of an unoptimized tech demo where two players can explore a maze simultaneously. There’s currently no other objectives other than that.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/15979-CodingCompetition2016TwinMazeByHaroldoop

3D City is a simple “shoot ’em up” video game originally programmed by StevePro Studios in New Zealand, January 1988. The game was written using BASIC programming language built on the Sega SC-3000. Inspired from previous posts on Sega console programming and z88dk programming setup, 3D City was the impetus to build an 8-bit video game in C / Z80 assembler to target the Sega Master System.

After four years Haroldo Pinheiro decided to finish up his game Data Storm for the Sega Master System. The game itself is a clone of an Atari 2600 game named Turmoil.

The objective of the game is to zoom up and down the center alley and blast aliens as they streak by. Keep shooting and keep moving to avoid a deadly collision with a speeding alien spacecraft. Data Storm features a variety of speedy aliens which travel back and forth across the screen at their own unique paces. The faster they move, the more points they are worth. All aliens, except for the Prizes, must be shot while your ship is in the center alley.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/15960-CodingCompetition2016DataStormByHaroldoop

Acid Reflux can be compared to the still famous endless runner games, but here we have got a “street” and a car. Responsible for this game are furrtek and robotwo. Interesting to mention: The game contains procedural music, varying from very annoying to surprisingly melodic.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/16007-CodingCompetition2016AcidRefluxByFurrtekRobotwo