A fallen warrior is woken from the eternal slumber of death and tasked with ridding the land of hordes of foetid, rotting aberrations summoned by the evil Lord Vroll. Reluctantly, the grizzled and battle weary Bathoryn dons his armour and grips his heavy sword once again, and turns into the blistering wind. Thunder and lightning […]
Archive: November, 2016
8Bit Music Power CD & Magazine Preorders Open
You may recall 8Bit Music Power, the chip tune music album that was released on a Famicom cartridge earlier in 2016. The slightly bizarre (yet effortlessly cool) format made the album a bit of a niche item and probably turned many people off, seeing as you need either a Famicom or a Retron 5 (other […]
Unreleased Atari Jaguar Prototype ‘Thea Realm Fighters’ Discovered
The Atari Jaguar very nearly played host to a port of of Midway’s Mortal Kombat 3, and rumours suggest that it was actually finished before being cancelled. Unfortunately, the hole left in the system’s library by the disappearance of John Tobias and Ed Boon’s highly acclaimed 2D brawler was only partly plugged by copycat titles […]
Burning Rangers
There aren’t many fire-fighting games out there, and very few futuristic ones – but that’s exactly what Burning Rangers is. As a member of the elite rescue force of the same name, Burning Rangers tasks you with putting out fires, rescuing civilians and occasionally blasting out-of-control robots until they stop moving. Of course, since this […]
Apple MacBook Pro Touch Bar Hacked To Run Doom
Almost every gaming platform powerful enough to cope with the sprite-based id Tech engine plays host to a port of Doom. Not only that, pretty much any piece of hardware with a screen and microchip can be made to run a version of id Software’s genre-defining shooter, such is the adaptability of the code. Just […]
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 37: Amiga Memories
The Amiga is one of the most popular home computers. It easily overtook its competitor the Atari ST and with good reason. With many standout games from all types of genre as well as an amazing demo scene showing off what music and video the Amiga was capable of, it’s hardly surprising it has so […]
French game industry
Hi guys, I’m looking for interesting articles, interviews, books, movies related to French retrogaming industry. If you could recommend some materials about Coktel Vision (especially Goblins series), Infogrames (North & South, Jumping Jackson..), Delphine Software (Another World, Flashback).. Preferably in English, but I can learn some French too. 🙂 Thank you a lot for your […]