The Path - Illustrated text-based puzzle game also playable in your browser

Another game released by Adventuron this month and no not a simulation, is the Illustrated Text-Based Puzzle game ' The Path '. Yes indeed it's time to put aside the sim and look towards this rather unusual game, as in the The Path you will encounter a series of challenges, containing situations and actions they may be very dangerous in real life.

Hamurabi - A classic resource management sim ported online!

Atlantis and Dragonfire weren't the only games to be ported this month, as earlier today Chris contacted us to let us know that a port of 'Hamurabi' had been released and playable online via the Adventuron itch.io page. This game according to the main write up, is a port of the classic 1968 resource management sim by Doug Dyment and is adapted from the 1973 BASIC version port by David Ahl (printed in BASIC Computer Games, 1973).

GALAXY FORCE - Bullet hell shooter inspired by Scramble, playable online

In March of this year (yes it's still March :p) PuzCPC released a very nice side scrolling shoot em up Amstrad port of a much earlier game which was originally released way back in 1983 as Skramble developed by Darrell Etherington. The actual release name was ' Scramble ' which was also the original name of the game released in February 1981 developed by Konami and distributed in North America by Stern Electronics.  So why am I talking about Scramble again? Well benjames171 recently released his own inspired version of Scramble, but this time as a bullet hell shooter called Galaxy Force

The Beast Of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition is finally here

Throughout the last few years we've featured a number of text based adventures, games such as the upcoming unnamed Pirate themed C64 adventure, The Pawn Remastered, The Marlo Files Remastered Edition, and Goblin Towers to name but a few. But there's another game of similar flavour that has just been released and worth checking out, and that is The Beast Of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition; a remastered version of a game released in 1988, by Linda Doughty for the ZX Spectrum

The Internet Archive adds the glorious C64 to its overflowing library

Glorious news for Tuesday as if you thought playing over 1,100 Arcade machines in your browser was seriously cool, then you'll be overjoyed to hear the same website ' The Internet Archive ' has now added a huge list of awesome C64 games to play in your browser. In fact according to them, the Internet Archive have already tested over 10,500 programs and are well on their way to adding many great C64 hits to their ever growing library!

The Beast Of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition - Coming this November!

Throughout the last few years we've featured a number of text based adventures, games such as the upcoming unnamed Pirate themed C64 adventure, The Pawn Remastered, The Marlo Files Remastered Edition, and Goblin Towers to name but a few. But there's another game that's due to be released in November, and that is The Beast Of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition; a remastered version of a game released in 1988, by Linda Doughty for the ZX Spectrum

Introducing Foreign Frugglers - a Free Retro Pixel-Art Web Game

Ultimo Games has just released a fun retro-inspired shooter titled Foreign Frugglers. The masterful pixel-artist Timo Visser has created a simple yet fun arcade style game that's free to play in your web browser.

Bio Evil 4 - Resident Evil 4 demake as a platform shooter

Delunky and Metro Cop aren't the only games to come out from the Demake 2018 competition, as we've just come across a game called ' Bio Evil 4 ', which from the look of it, is a demake of the early 2000 capcom third person horror Resident Evil 4, but is completely free to play in your browser supporting keyboard and controller inputs.

Spelunky demade on the Pico-8 as 'Delunky'

The original Spelunky released in 2008 is an action/puzzle platform game, where you play as the Spelunker who must explore tombs and other locations looking for treasure, (and love!) avoiding traps, blowing up scenery and enemies while escaping with as much loot as possible. It was and still is such a great game that Johan Peitz released his own version as a demake for the Pico-8 called ' Delunky '.

Metro Cop - Virtua Cop demake available now!

If you remember pointing a plastic gun at the Arcades or at home towards the TV blasting away enemies on the screen, then chances are you would've played the many lightgun games available at the time such as Time Crisis or even Time Gal. Well if you have then you'll be pleased to know as of this moment you can download HelpComputer's rather special game of ' Metro Cop ' which is a demake of the classic Sega arcade game Virtua Cop, and made for the 2018 Demake Jam!

Super CLASH Bros - A mad retro smash up gets a new build

Can you believe this? A talented developer by the name of Clash Dev Ato, has only gone and made a Smash Bros inspired game freely available on Gamejolt and itch.io! Well the game is clearly a tribute to the much maligned Super Smash Bros , one of Nintendo's flag ship game franchises. Super CLASH Bros is a fan-made crossover game featuring a battle mode and adventure mode with many famous characters kept very accurate to their original games!

Down Ward - A Gameboy Inspired Platformer is Available in Early Access

Created for the GameBoy Jam 4, Down Ward is a glorious black & white side scrolling platformer by Fisholith. Available now as an early-access release, it is available for Windows and HTML5 In-Browser form, and will have an eventual Steam & Mac OSX release.

DeepSID - Browser SID emulator with thousands of playable tunes!

A short news article for this evening even though it's a damn good one. As we've come across a tweet on Twitter from Jaz Rignall regarding a browser SID emulator that has been developed by Jens-Christian Huus and released freely available on the internet as 'DeepSID'. This rather nice ear blasting extravaganza is easily usable online in your browser and features 1000's of Sid tunes that can be selected and automatically played through Chrome, Firefox or even Internet Explorer.

Breakout Hero - Arkanoid/Breakout style game is now available to play

Ready your paddles retro gamers, as a new Arcade Pico release is now available to download and play on your Pico-8 or via browser. Developed by Krystian Majewski from Lazy Devs Academy with music by Gruber Music, comes a new game called  Breakout Hero with an inspiration to Arkanoid and Breakout that can be played by all with sound effects and bonuses a' plenty!

Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom - Pico-8 port of Pondsoft's C64 casual game

One of the most common uses for the Pico-8 game creation tool is for people to re-make classic games from the 8-bit era using P8's differently limited set of constraints, or to DE-make more modern games from 16-bit and later platforms. But Spaceman Splorf: Planet of Doom is something slightly different... it's a port of a modern release on C64 so it actually represents a true port, made at around the same time as the original, and it's really well done!

Comanche 1/2 - A technically marvellous Pico-8 heli-sim

For our third installment of "What's new in Pico-8" we have a treat. Would you believe someone has created a full voxel terrain engine in the diminutive fantasy console? Well someone has and unsurprisingly it was user electricgryphon, with a de-make/fantasy prequel to the venerable Comanche series of helicopter sims.

Tomb of G'Nir - A Pico-8 platformer of epic hardness

Pico-8 is not without an abundant supply of platform games, being that it was made almost specifically to make them. Celeste was one of the first and has served as the basis for many since as it's usually a new Pico-8 users foray into modifying a game engine. In the second pico-8 roundup feature, Tomb of G'nir takes hat model and shifts it up a gear.. or ten!

Syctek - A Pico-8 arcade cabinet shooter

In the first of three "What's New in Pico-8" roundup features we have Syctek - A simple to play, hard to master addictive vertical SHMUP. Designed for an arcade cabinet and meant to spawn hi-score rivalry among you and your friends.

Sheep it Up - Baaaaah new Gameboy cartridge game goes online for FREE!

It's strange to think that not long ago I found my original Gameboy, which was lost for all those years with only memories to go by. Thankfully after finding it and looking out for more games, I was pleased to hear that games were still being developed for it such as this one ' Sheep it Up ' by LudoScience and Catskull Games. The idea behind this arcade game is rather unusual, climb as high as you can by hanging yourself from flying velctro straps while trying not to fall.

Handheld History launched via The Internet Archive!

A long time ago in New York in a local store on my way to eating a lovely Pecan Pie it was the very first time I ever saw a 1980's Nintendo Game and Watch with a little guy that had to put out a fire. Sadly I was never able to buy one of them and it wasn't until now that I heard many of those famous LCD style games had been re-released via The Internet Archive that are playable online via your browser and MAME.