#0.3 From The Archive

2nd November 2023

I’ve been on a weird one for Burger Time in recent months so some gorgeous spooky Burger Time inspired action is right up my street. Presenting Guardgrave. (Itch) (thanks for the tip off)

DooMZX is a top down Ansii/Ascii game based on Doom. Always love folk doing this sort of thing. (Itch)

The Trial Of Kharzoid, tasty looking adventuring + Arkanoid on the NES (Itch) (thanks)

Quick reminder that The Games For Gaza bundle has a week left. (Itch)

Cosmically spoopy C64 stuff courtesy of Darkland 2 (Itch)

An early Spectrum fave of mine gets a belated GBA port, Matthew Smith’s Styx. (Itch)

A work in progress remake of the much loved C64 game, Alley Cat. (Itch)

Bit of a maze themed week, this week. Next up, Wizard Of Wor remade. (Itch)

Continuing the theme! Rogueish, for the unexpanded Vic 20. The stuff people squeeze into the Vic always gets me. (Itch)

Related/unrelated. One of the other Rob’s on Super Monza GP2 for the Vic. What a thing to exist. Blimey. (YouTube)

Obligatory Bitsy game this week is the lovely, branching, The Time Capsule (Itch)

Tales From The Arabian Nights gets the Pico-8 treatment. Nice. (Itch)

And here’s Pixelmusement going through the original. (YouTube)

Berzerk Recharged is out next week and I’m hoping for the best, you know considering Berzerk is one of my favourite games. (Website)

And to wrap up this week’s digest, Terrahawks! (Twitter)

6th - 9th November

I’m deep in IGF judging so haven’t got round to playing the demo of Roman Sands RE:Build yet, I don’t even have the words to describe it beyond “holy crap, look at that”. It’s put together by a really strong team and I’m massively excited for it. (Steam)

Saturnalia makes a long overdue arrival on Steam this week. It’s an absolutely stonking, weird, sinister, survival horror game. One for the horror fans out there. (Steam)

Ambassador, with all this Burger Time you’re really spoiling me. This time, for the C64. (Itch)

Lovely article on Hampstead, the old Melbourne House “it’s a bit racist, bless” adventure for the Speccy. (Rosebush)

Are we still calling these Broglikes? The Waking Knot looks wild. “A psychedelic, improvisational tactics game” is rather underselling this. (Website)

Talking of psychedelic, a few folks have sent me links to Nidus, a twin sticker which is out next year. It’s got an absolutely incredible style to it. You have to see this. (Steam)

Galactic Glitch, also due next year, has some grand Pompom vibes to it. I’m still sad that the brilliant Mutant Storm Empire never saw its PC release so I’ll take this. (Steam)

One last one for next year, Minishoot Adventures is beautifully cartoony twin stick stuff and I just love how it looks, tbh. Hopefully the game is as good. (Steam)

Punch Chess. It had me at the title. This one’s for the 2600 but runs in a browser too. (Itch)

Minestorm is one of my favourite things of all time so I’m always down for a remake. This one’s called Storm Mined. (Itch)

A Gameboy Color version of Cuthbert In Space, for all your not-quite-Jetpac desires. I’m starting the campaign for a Cuthbert revival here. (Itch)

Hextype Mechapop is a *checks card* prototype for a Typing Of … Missile Command game with a techno witch theme. I love videogames. (Itch)

Spare a few minutes for Kim Justice’s quick look at the 1980 arcade game Vortex. (YouTube)

IndieRetroNews reports on a reimagining of Wizball for the Atari XL/XE, Zauberball (IndieRetroNews)

Stunt Car Racer for the Apple II. That’s got to be cheating. 48k, c’mon! Ref! Link’s in the description, btw. (YouTube)

I get very excited at the prospect of a new Pumpkin Games game, I’m still playing the crap out of Glitch Angels! Look at this so far though! Cor. (Mastodon)

Berzerk Recharged should be out by the time you’re reading this. I’m still hoping it’s turned out good, natch. (Deku)