April 27, 2012

An Illustrated History of Shmups .

July 7, 2011

IT8BIT is retro game art and stuff.

June 9, 2011

The 8 and the 16 Comparative screenshots of 8- and 16-bit games. [via]

June 1, 2011

Spelunky is a randomly generated platformer with retro graphics and a deceptively simple premise: enter the cave, get treasure, save the girl. In practice, it's incredibly difficult. It's also pretty addicting.

At the moment, Spelunky is Windows-only, but it's heading to the X-Box Live Arcade soon.

April 17, 2011

Now this is genuinely neat-o. The World's Biggest Pac-man is a giant HTML5 game of Pac-man, for which users can contribute mazes (sadly, logging on Facebook is necessary to add your own maze to the big picture, but at least you can play without logging on). All the mazes (as I write this, 6925 of them) are connected, allowing you to use the exits on the side of one maze to enter another one. The overall playfield is... large.

April 5, 2011

Do you make retro games? Or just like messing around with 8-bit sound effects? Then Dr Petter is your man! Download the tiny (50kb) app, hit randomize, and get old skool. There's even a Mac version! Check out his games and other projects while you're there -- some neat stuff to be had.

February 21, 2011

Game Boy on a Oscilloscope Useful? Not really. The latest 20th century hardware blend? Yes. Includes a description of how it's done.

January 29, 2011

Sarien.net - The Full Story What started out as a retro chat environment became a full scale iPad game catalog without the AppStore that recieved an official Cease and Desist by Activision and finally become an authorized game portal with a bright future

January 24, 2011

Spikes Tend to Kill You is a super-fast retro platformer. And it's fun!

January 15, 2011

Retromash is a flash-game mashup between Space Invaders and Tetris, kinda. 8-bit retro goodness.