Prince of Persia on the C64 Oct 20, 2011

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Tags: Amiga, C64, Games, Retro gaming, Video games

This is so awesome.

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Review: Ninja Senki Dec 27, 2010

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Tags: Retro gaming, Reviews, Video, Video games

A few days ago the indie game Ninja Senki was released after a year of development. In short, it’s a Ninja Gaiden inspired (a lot of pages say Mega Man but I don’t agree with that) retro platformer that looks very late 1980s and also has that late 1980s difficulty.

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Introducing My Latest Projects Sep 22, 2009

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Tags: API, Game programming, Programming, Retro gaming, SDL, Source code, Video, Video games

… Or, How to Procrastinate Productively.

I decided to make one of my current projects open source and post them on Google Code just for fun. The project is a toolchain that I’m using to remake Thrust. In reality, I decided to divide the project into two separate projects: the actual game engine and related tools, and a music editor that uses the engine.

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Thrustlikes Jun 18, 2008

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Tags: 8-bit, Asteroids, Atari, C64, NES, Nostalgy, Retro gaming, Reviews, Video, Video games

Probably my most favorite video games are thrustlike games — games that relate to Thrust similarly how Rogue relates to roguelikes. Here are some of the games I consider the best examples of this genre.

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ROM CHECK FAIL Apr 10, 2008

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Tags: Nostalgy, Retro gaming, Reviews, Video, Video games

ROM CHECK FAIL is quite possibly the most original game I have seen in a while. That’s saying a lot considering the game is a mishmash of classic arcade and video games. The main idea is that, for example, at one moment you are playing Zelda and after a few seconds the game randomly switches to Super Mario Bros. Or Asteroids. Or Spy Hunter. While you might still be Link or the tank from Space Invaders.

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