Dec

30

Retro Roundup: Ropor

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Ropor has already had a bit of coverage as it’s been available since before the competition entries were officially unleashed onto all of the interwebs. Still, for such a cracking game, too much hype can’t possibly be a bad thing, so let’s zerg forth with today’s Roundup! It comes courtesy of Tom Beaumont – his [...]

Dec

27

Retro Roundup: KickleC

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For this latest Roundup entry thanks go to Matt Pilz, aka xCept, who brings us this remake of the decidedly Japanese NES hit, Kickle Cubicle. Is everyone sitting confortably? Then let’s begin…
You control Kickle, a fairly well built chap whose job is to collect all of the magic bags on each screen so he can [...]

Dec

25

Season’s greetings

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Merry Christmas and a happy new year from Zolyx!

Dec

23

Retro Roundup: Revenge of the Punched Tape

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I was initially going to do a Roundup on Monuments of Mars, but then I thought – “Hang on a minute, that’d be three platform games in a row. No good!”
So, instead, here we have Revenge of the Punched Tape. It’s a fairly simple game but one that is carefully crafted and seems [...]

Dec

21

Hoots mon!

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I watched the first public preview video for Owlboy yesterday after it got a mention on the IndieGames blog and Destructoid. Having not known about it before then, this took me by surprise…

I absolutely love the music – heroic and sweeping with a great mix of 8-bit blippiness and orchestral accompaniment, something any modern indie [...]

Dec

20

Retro Roundup: Mini-Saboteur

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Hmm. Despite a lot of people saying that Saboteur! and its sequel were brilliant games for their time, they kinda passed me by. Playing Mini-Saboteur gave me a chance to see what I missed… or not, as the case may be
FatSeagal has become quite well known for his miniaturised remakes and he’s executed [...]

Dec

18

Retro Roundup: The Kiwi’s Tale

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Wahey! It’s The New Zealand Story all over again!
From Auckland Game Works comes this remake of Taito’s 1988 arcade platformer, featuring a lively cast of wildlife including snails, hedgehogs, sharks, pukekos and lots of cuddly kiwis. The story goes that one day a mad alien sheep in a flying saucer kidnaps all of Nik the [...]

Dec

14

RRC2008 entries out!

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Perfect! Just in time for all of us to have a nice, comfy playthrough before Christmas, the 2008 Retro Remakes competition entries are now available to download! A big congratulatory slap on the back must go to everyone who got something together during the three months of coding time, and special thanks to the RR [...]

Dec

14

Aquaria’s birthday patch

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Those nice people at Bit Blot have updated Aquaria to version 1.1 including lots of added goodness! It now supports widescreen and has an improved world map and cooking interface, amongst other things. Best of all, if you didn’t buy it already, there’s a price reduction – get Aquaria for Windows now in exchange for [...]

Dec

11

PS3 “Home” enters open beta

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Even as I write this they’re fixing some initial opening hitches, but earlier yesterday, Sony officially announced that they’re opening the doors on their “social gaming community” named Home. Everyone on the planet should have access to it within the next 24 hours or thereabouts, so I guess it’s time to see if there’s [...]

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