Famicom: 8-Bit Music Power cartridge release.

If japan has a Nintendo Famicom homebrew scene, news of it doesn't often make it to the west. Whilst you may be familiar with Japan's Dōjin soft, most of these releases seem to be either on modern platforms or classic computers, without much activity on consoles.  That makes this music demo a bit of a rare beast and add the fact that it's getting a cartridge release and you've got something pretty special.

Although it was announced a while ago, 8-Bit Power now seems to be available to pre-order on Play Asia, for the not completely unreasonable price of $29.99 or £20.07, with what looks to be very nice retail packaging too.

Yet More CPC Homebrew 2015

Another two games from the CPC Retrodev contest on display here, this time it's the winner and runner up.
Space Moves is an absolutely rock hard run and gun game, presumably an unofficial sequel to the original Army Moves. Frogalot is a puzzle platformer type thing, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the classic Nebulus. Both are worth checking out if you're into the kind of low key fun that Amstrad CPC homebrew games offer.

Mega Drive "Mode 7" Kart Racer Demo

Inspired by the SNES's most well known and best loved racer, this Mega Drive kart racer work in progress demo looks fantastic. Although the Mega Drive/ Genesis had many strengths, it lacked the hardware sprite scaling capabilities of the SNES that were known as mode 7 graphics, meaning that Mario Kart like games were thought to be more or less impossible. Thanks to some clever coding though this demo proves that untrue, with a software scaling routine that looks almost as good as the SNES version.  Here's hoping that this gets developed into a full game. 

Amstrad CPC Homebrew From CPC Retrodev

A little video I put together featuring two of my favorites from the CPC Retrodev Competition this month. Despite not placing high on the rankings I love these two games especially RUNCPC, which has to be one of the best homebrews I've played this year. More Vids of games from this compo if I get round to it.

CPC Retrodev Game Creation Contest Results

The second annual CPC Retrodev competition results are in and no less than  35 games have have been entered this year, a pretty impressive array for a system that's often somewhat overlooked. Organised by the University of Alicante (where else?) this seems to be a really popular event in the CPC calender and to top it off all the games will have a cassette release at some point, though only last years games seem to be available at the moment.  I haven't had change to play all the games yet, but so far RUNCPC is my favorite, despite placing so low down the list.

More Commodore 16 Homebrew: Dork Dave And The Dirty Trick

After the Majesty of Sprites more majesty comes from the often overlooked ugly stepchild of the Commodore range, the Plus 4 in the form of Dork Dave. This new game is a somewhat Mario inspired platformer, that runs not only on the Plus 4, but the even more modest C16 model. It looks pretty neat and even features parallax scrolling!

Open Your Eyes to Abre los ojos Commodore PET 8032 Scene Demo

I really can't resist scene demos on obscure platforms and this one's a good one. Coming in first in the wild category at the Finnish Zoo demo party, a well deserved and also inevitable result as it was the only entry, it's an abstract glitchy avant-garde micro masterpiece. As far as I can tell this is the only recent release for this system, the Commodore PET 8032, a slightly upgraded version of the original PET all in one computer. It's good to see 'cos any computer that looks as retrofuturisticly cool as the this PET deserves something cool to run on it.