#0.7 From The Archive

9th February, 2024

Getting things started this week with the 10Tons With Tentacles of Demon Spore. Some strategic twin stick horror action tasking you with fighting ever evolving tentacle creatures and getting out of the mess alive. Demo up on Steam at the time of writing. [Steam]

Enjoyed myself doodling the cover art for this one, it’s Minion’s remake of Moon Cresta. I’ve been playing a fair bit of the …Cresta games on and off for quite a few months now, love ’em and Min does his usual quality job at bringing the game alive via the medium of Pico8 here. [Itch]

Future Knight DX is a remake of the CPC version of one of my favourite chonky games from Gremlin’s incredibly-long-boxed Ten Great Games collection. I went through a really hefty phase of hammering the original, nice to see it get some love. [Itch]

Another Missile Command, which is nice. This time round it’s a nice vector take on the classic. And yes, as documented in #12, I am still rubbish at the game. [Itch]

Forgot to mention Toxic Tomb last week so before I forget again, have an absolute blast with the latest from the ever brilliant Locomalito. Always essential stuff. [Itch]

Another in the long line of gorgeous looking new Spectrum games that folks are putting out there, Mushroom Soup is a ten level collecting and dodging game where you assume the role of a peckish goblin on a mushroom hunt. [Itch]

A short Pico8 Atelier fan game for your consideration, Atelier Pheobe. [Website]

I’m always up for a take on Hunt The Wumpus. Coincidentally, here’s another take on Hunt The Wumpus. [Itch]

Games look so good these days, it’s just rude really. Praxis Fighter X being a prime example. Speedy Pico8 shooting with a frankly gorgeous arcade aesthetic. [Itch]

Mr And Mrs Cockitup have thankfully stayed at home for this Amiga reworking of Breakthru. Brum brum! [Itch]

My chums over at Thalamus Digital have just released Starseed, a beautiful little arcade shooter for the Gameboy Color. Properly lovely stuff, nice work everyone! [Itch]

Classic stabby maze action in this rework of the brilliant Maziacs. [Itch]

A Bitsy classic to wrap up this week. A Field Guide To The Snails Of Scull-In-The-Mud. Still wonderful. [Itch]

16th February 2024

Bizarrely for me, a remake of a game I have absolutely no memory of it ever existing. So that’s me sorted for tonight. It’s Pippo, originally from Mastertronic in 1986. (Itch)

If you’re new to Rob lore, Scramble is the one game I’ve played more than any other. I absolutely love it. With that in mind, here’s a remake of the not-Scramble-honest but it totally is of Super Cobra, for the Speccy. (Itch)

Bugaboo, but the entire cavern is on a single screen. Can’t ever get enough of stuff like this. (Itch)

Bit of the old Pac-Man with Pac World, 6 worlds of dot snaffling, ghost avoiding, pill popping.(Itch)

Still a big fan of the original Geometry Wars look so Tanktronix Invasion is more than fine with me. Mentioned in #11 but in case you missed it. (Itch)

Matt Sephton interviews Kenta Cho. (Website)

Amidar, in Pico 8. Absolutely lovely stuff. (Website)

Not game related but I know some of you will be interested to read how to get olde style word art back in modern Word. I really want to see those bevels. (Website)

“Do you have what it takes to look at Steely Dan’s Walter Becker for one entire hour??” – it’s Look At A Picture Of Walter Becker For 1 Hour, for the gameboy. Also playable online. (Itch)

See also the wonderful Watch Ducks. (Glorious Trainwrecks)

Inspired by Folder Dungeon, Binary Battle is a filesystem styled dungeon crawler with an amazingly good look to it for the C64. (Itch)

Indie Retro News reporting someone’s working on a Knightmare game for the Speccy that, unlike the one that did come out, actually has something to do with Knightmare. Fix those ancient wrongs, folks. (IndieRetroNews)

You’re just going to have to deal with my fanboying over Cecconoid, I’m afraid. I love it. There’s an Amiga version in the offing of this fab Cybernoid meets Robotron and here’s Time Extension reporting on the upcoming physical release. (Time Extension)

Wrapping up this week with It’s Not Cold Yet. Enjoy and see you back here next week. (Itch)