✅ Download quickly
✅ Can be played with a D-pad or a joystick and a couple of buttons
✅ Are incredibly well-documented now
✅ Had their DRM stripped out decades ago, or... see point above
✅ Will run on 0.03% of your PC's capabilities
✅ Are cheap to acquire in digital form
✅ Are interesting historical artefacts
✅ Are celebrated by inclusive and collaborative online communities
Save a classic gamepad from ewaste and start playing retro games today! 🎮
I’m having way too much #RetroGaming fun with this Miyoo Mini+. Installed #OnionOS this morning which adds so many useful features. Nice theme switcher where I found a fave, which you can see in the video.
Also got hooked up with RetroAchievements, a website that creates and tracks achievements in these old #videogames. This was $70 well spent and I’m just getting started! (Literally… with the original Legend of Zelda)
@kevinctofel Love my Miyoo Mini... I also set up retroachievements on my PS1 Classic running AutoBleem... and man... some of these Achievements are hard!
3D Pinball for Windows: The Space Cadet's Mission Continues
Do you know what computer games and the Voyager space probes have in common? Clever engineering can extend their missions way beyond their intended lifetime.
3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, the iconic game bundled with the Microsoft Plus! packs and included in Windows NT4 up to Windows XP, is preserved for decades to come thanks to a reverse engineering project by Andrey Muzychenko.
Warhawk was easily one of the top releases for the Spectrum Next at launch, but it also happens to serve as a fantastic upgrade to a brilliant budget blaster too!
So let's dive into it, and the original version to see just what an upgrade it is!
@OutofPrintArchive yeah, there was also a Brazilian version with famous local cartoon characters. Weird thing is my brother married a Brazilian woman and she never even heard of it 😅
I think I might have seen that one before as someone once sent me a picture of his Wonder Boy collection and I remember being amazed that there were games in there that I never even heard off at the time.
It took them a very long time, but Limited Run finally got both the regular Game Boy as well as the newly done Game Boy Color version of Trip World to me.
@Thaeyn
I wouldn't really know where to start. 😅
And to be honest, I'm quite embarrassed at how big it has gotten...
Then again, it started in 1992 more or less and by 1995, I actively started collecting as I was able to pick up tons of NES games for super cheap as shops were trying to get rid of them.
Then moved on to SNES, Mega Drive, Master System and basically anything I had missed out on.
Always looking a couple generations back and searching for great deals.
The Lost Patrol was one of the most original and most overlooked games of 1989. It remains one of those few games that, mechanically too, manage to imply the horrors of war.
@konstantinosd The YouTube channel "Ahoy" recently published a video about another war game called Cannon Fodder which implies the human cost of war through a couple of its interstitial screens:
Review for Pengo on game Gear.
Sega Force 4 - April 1992 (UK)
I have to add that I feel they are being a bit too harsh on Pengo here.
Although I understand since the game was a decade old by the time it released on Game Gear.
I loved it in the arcade and it was actually my first GG game. 😊
I love the game so much that I have the Japanese MD, Xbox 360 and Switch versions as well.
haha, that looks great!
I have to put it on my PSP one of these days as I usually don't dabble with emulators.
Thinking back, it astounds me that besides the Atari and C64, Pengo never really got released on any of the 8 or 16 bit consoles besides the Game Gear...
Well, there was Pepenga Pengo in Japan on Mega Drive, which is super expensive nowadays, but it's very different from the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBrEjjIbMY
Well since I have Pengo on my mind now, I started watching the history of this series and found out that the arcade original was actually released on SEGA Saturn in the Sega Ages: Memorial Selection, Vol. 1, which I actually have but had completely forgotten about!
Finding myself wondering about that dithering technique for pixel art skyboxes using uninterrupted horizontal lines 🤔 like, what's the method for spacing the lines?
@eniko@0xSim From first look it seems to be as simple as color A, 1 pixel of color B, 1 pixel of A, 2 pixels of B, 1 pixel of A, 3 pixels of B, 1 pixel of A, many pixels B
i.e. three segments of B with lengths 1,2,3 surrounded by 1-pixel A's
And I just have to repeat myself, but I'm in awe of all the incredible artwork in this magazine series.
Just look at that gorgeous Splatterhouse piece right here!
I have a hard time wrapping my head around how the artist was able to create so many pieces each and every month for Sega Force as well as N-Force!
I got those two for $20. One for me and one for my son. Working on setting up the custom firmware and Nintendont to servers since the closure of the official ones.
@Andre_LA Thank you! I'm using the GameMaker engine (and Aseprite for pixelart)
this mechanic is just a collision rectangle that turns off depending on where the player is relative to it, so most of the work was making the animation :)
@nanochess The programming laguage looks surprisingly simple. 👍 I expected abstract, chipset-specific Assembly code, but this looks like a game dev friendly BASIC variant.
