The guys on the Retro Asylum podcast played Stunt Car Racer this month. That game is one of my favourites. A wild roller coaster of a game where you literally drive a car around a roller coaster. I played the C64 version for hours on end and listening to them […]
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Solar Jetman on the C64
This is a game I’d forgotten about until recently when I saw someone playing it on Twitch. Solar Jetman came out on the NES in 1991, and conversions were made for the C64, Speccy, Amiga and Atari ST. Unfortunately due to poor sales of the NES original the conversions were […]
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Vice – autostart with a directory
Vice, the Commodore 64 emulator is a cross platform emulator that works on Windows, Linux, MacOS and other operating systems. It also allows you to emulate the Vic 20, C128 and other early Commodore machines. Double clicking on a Commodore d64 disk image file will load x64, the Commodore 64 […]
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How to catch my eye in the Newsagent
While in Eason newsagents today I glanced over at the gaming magazines and something caught my eye and brought me back almost 30 years to when my brother and I bought our first copy of Zzap! 64. Future Publishing have a new retro gaming magazine on sale that has a […]
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I found my first computer: Telesport SD 050C
Many years ago I mentioned the first computer system that came into my family home. I couldn’t remember what it was called and it had been thrown out years before. I had searched retro console sites, looking through “history of computing” Youtube videos, and more but I couldn’t find it […]
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Play Speccy Games Online
Ah no, not another retro post? Oh yes! ZX Spectrum.net will give you a reason to run Java again if you were a fan of the rubber keyed micro. Thanks Paolo for the link!
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The JXD A1000 Arrived!
Tweets have been flying around all day as people get their shiny new iPads but the postman delivered something I was looking forward to for a few weeks. Yes, the JXD A1000 arrived this afternoon. I tried a few games and videos on it and it works quite well! The […]
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Syndicate on Thursday
One of my favourite Amiga games of the 90’s was Syndicate. The PC version will be available on GOG.com from next Thursday. Great little shooter, go buy it! (via)
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Wing Commander IV
Oh look what I found at home a few days ago! A boxed copy of Wing Commander IV for Windows 95 and DOS. I have never even played this and honestly don’t remember buying it but since GOG have just released the third game in the series I should give […]
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Painkiller!
No, not the podcast, but a Polish game released in 2004 and it’s on gog.com now. Yesterday it was priced at $3.99 and I jumped at the chance after watching the Zero Punctuation review and a couple of Youtube gameplay videos. Looks very old school like Quake, Doom or Serious […]