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 by marco's retrobits ZNAKE is a very simple Snake/Worm/Nibbles - like game for the ZX Spectrum. It is his very first complete retro-game, coded back in 2005 in C and built with z88dk . Within the Retro Snake Game Jam , held in 2023, he took the opportunity to revamp the project and clean up the program, in order to remove some redundancies and make the code compatible with more recent z88dk version. Play, here Source: https://retrobits.itch.io/znake

  Autor: Adrian Pilkington   Falken’s Maze     Se pueden descargar los juegos del repositorio de github o en itchio ZX81 Slicer   Fuente: ZX81 hoy

 by Crazy Piri Easter gift for the CroCoFest'23 Help the rabbit in the 30 challenging levels The final version will be available for the Amstrad CPC very soon     Source: https://crazypiri.itch.io/frutti

 by Massimiliano Arca     PARA2023: a ZX Spectrum game ============================= By Massimiliano Arca, 2023 The Story ========= Our hero is parachuted from a helicopter onto a small island in the middle of the ocean, from where he will - what else? - save the world. Unfortunately, strong oceanic winds make it impossible to safely direct the flight (fall?) to the target, and an evil enemy has suspended numerous flying mines. The parachutist will have to try to counteract the winds, avoid the mines, and eventually land on the tiny target to complete the mission. Will he succeed? Video: Source: https://bunsen.itch.io/para2023-by-massimiliano-arca

 by Honoppe         Source: https://bunsen.itch.io/10-lines-princess-by-honoppe

  Adaptación del relato breve de H. P. Lovecraft "The Picture in the House" para ordenadores ZX Spectrum Dareint : " Estoy desarrollando un relato corto para ordenadores de ZX Spectrum que será una adaptación del relato de H. P. Lovecraft "The Picture in the House" escrito en diciembre de 1920 y publicado por primera vez en julio de 1921. Le falta muy poco para terminarlo y la intención es que vea la luz tanto en castellano como en inglés ". Fuente: https://dareint.itch.io/la-tormenta/devlog/508135/la-tormenta-en-desarrollo

A principios de la década de 1990, había una empresa de software llamada Crystal X que vendía juegos de la desarrolladora " home " Angela Swinbourne, una mezcla de juegos de estrategia y acción.  David Crookes compró recientemente un dispositivo Kyroflux para revisar muchos de sus discos antiguos, con la esperanza de encontrar títulos que aún no se habían preservado y bingo, entonces surgió la empresa citada... ¿Qué tenemos en el disco?  En primer lugar, tenemos Cloaker y Pacifist, que son dos buenos títulos de estrategia. Mantis es un simple juego de estilo Lunar Lander/Maze, y P.Z.P es un extraño ambientado  en el espacio. Descarga, aquí Fuente:  Crystal X - Amstrad CPC games preserved - Games That Weren't (gamesthatwerent.com)

Only a few copies were ever sold of adidas Championship Football in France by Ocean Software. A handful of copies were known to exist, but were yet to be preserved. This changed on the 22nd March thanks to Galahad, with yet another great preservation effort. Over at the English Amiga Board, Galahad revealed that the game was secured via Paul Badham ( @MrBads_Games ) who brought the game on Ebay with the hope that it was the Amiga edition (but thinking it probably wasn’t). Turns out it was, and was bought for the cheap price of £4.99!  After some negotiations, the game was kindly passed over for preservation, and which you can now play for yourself. More details can be found at the  original EAB post about the recovery , and details about the game itself on  Hall of Light’s entry . The download can be found below. Unfortunately the Atari ST version is still at large, so it is hoped that some day this too will surface. With thanks to  Codetapper  for the heads up....

    Vuelve Inufuto a la carga con CRACKY, un juego muy arcade de su estilo y con un desarrollo multiplataforma, marca de la casa     Descarga diferentes versiones, aquí Fuente: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/cracky/

    In this side-scrolling insect shoot-em-up, originally released in 1990 for the Amiga, take on the role of a robotic fly, tasked with saving the world from hordes of mutant cybernetic killer insects. 50 platforming levels await, across 10 diverse worlds, plus bonus levels and more!      Originally released in 1990 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST computers, this side-scrolling platformer/shoot-em-up hybrid from prolific British developers Gremlin Graphics Source: STEAM

 by Haegar of Synergy     SOLI PONG by Haegar of Synergy 2023 Commodore Basic 3.5 - Commodore C16/C116/plus4 The Game                          Soli-Pong is a small 10 line game in basic for 1 Players. You control your racket    Source:  https://bunsen.itch.io/soli-pong-by-haegar-of-synergy

 by Bago Zonde     # Roguelike 10 This game was written for the Basic 10-Liner Contest 2023 in the PUR-80 category. It's written for Commodore 64/128 computers. ## Aim of the game As in all rogue-like games, your aim is to explore as many randomly generated dungeons as possible, not get slain and find as much gold as you can carry! Source: https://bunsen.itch.io/roguelike-10-by-bago-zonde

 by zxpope   TEN-LINE MINIMAL LUNAR LANDER ============================= IDEA ---- The simulator objective is to land the spaceship on the word MOON. The ship has two engines P and Q, in the left+up vector and in the vector right+up. The engines allow to overcome the lunar gravity and move left/right the ship.  Landing is valid if the speeds vertical and horizontal are close to zero. Source:  Minimum Lunar Lander (ZX Spectrum) by zxpope by BASIC 10Liner (itch.io)

    The game is classic ' crap game ' faire, and would sit happily on Cassette 50. It has no loading screen, but a nice BASIC intro screen which make good use of a couple of well designed UDGs , and there is even a bit of a beeper tune.    You play Keeper Joe, and you must capture a monkey 'ninja' that has escaped. However the intro warns of 'complications'. What could these complications be, I wonder? Source:  https://jbizzel.itch.io/cscgc2023

    Slicer game, can you survive in one piece? Action  By AdrianPilko The aim of this small game is to reach the bottom of the screen, avoiding the constantly moving bars. Good luck! Source:  https://adrianpilko.itch.io/zx81-slicer

    Title: Super Ory 2 – Enigma Genre: Adventure, puzzle Author(s): Orazio Cacciola and Cristiano Polenta Medium: ROM 512KB Hardware requirements: MSX2   As sequel to Super Ory , Orazio’s Super Ory 2 – Enigma , is an adventure game with puzzles along the way. In this MSX2 game you’ll guide Ory, the hero of the story, on a journey through a wide variety of different vistas. Source: MSXdev23

  By Copper France SIMON This is very simple Simon game for the Amstrad CPC Source: Basic 10Liner Contest

 by Eric Carr Author:   Eric Carr Language: FastBasic 4.6 Platform: Atari 8-bit Category: EXTREM-256 Source: Basic 10Liner Contest

  The Classic Adventurer is a bookazine dedicated to the golden era of text adventures. With visually stunning design, it contains meticulously researched articles with some of the biggest games and names in the genre Buy Special Edition 2023, here Free PDF Source:  The Classic Adventurer

By retropoke  Author: Philippe Moulin (retropoke) THE GAME : - It is 4 games in 1 that can be played with the JOYSTICK or the keyboard. - 100 A L(HEURE Avoid cars and do not drive in fields - ALPHABET RACER - Use the 4 arrow keys or the joystick to move around   Collect the letters of the alphabet in order   With each stage, the game becomes more and more difficult - TAQUIN CLASSIC - Use the 4 arrow keys or the joystick to move the letters   Reconstitute the alphabet in order as on the real game of TAQUIN - RETRO SQUASH - Use the [LEFT] and [RIGHT] arrow keys or the joystick   Bounce the ball to score maximum points   At the beginning, you are allocated 10 balls Source: Basic 10Liner Contest

  Zerouno Games presenta el nuevo sello Retro Golden Age, que recopilará videojuegos de plataformas clásicas. El primer pack incluirá los títulos para Steam: Goody , Operation Alexandra y Livingstone Supongo. Tráiler: Los tres juegos estarán disponibles en una compilación llamada  Boomer Pack  a un precio de  14,99€  o  5,99€  por separado el próximo  viernes 31 de marzo  en  PC|Steam . Fuente:  Goody y Livingstone Supongo: los clásicos de Opera Soft vuelven a la vida (cuatro.com)

  Un beat´em´up con sabor a vieja escuela The Toxic Crusdaders return for all-new, all action beat´em´up for one to four players. Grab your mop, tutu and attitude, and get ready for clean up the mean streets of Tronaville, one radioactive goon at a time! Fecha lanzamiento, 2023 Fuente: Steam

Platform and arcade ZX Spectrum by Sequentia Soft  30 pantallas son las que forman el castillo del malvado Sjkaldi y el bosque del árbol Yggdradil. El mapa del juego para explorar, se compone de plataformas, pero también hay enemigos con los que tienes que luchar. Cada enemigo tiene sus puntos vitales. Por ejemplo, puedes bloquear flechas enemigas o golpes de espada con tu escudo. Luego con tu espada podrás acabar con ellos. Bosque, lava, pinchos, trampas, cuevas, piscinas de agua, salas de castillos, llaves, palancas, etc. El juego parece tener una estética muy clásica, pero  ambientado en los mitos nórdicos. Compra, aquí Fuente:  STORM OVER VALHALLA 

 by ignacobo Un nuevo Tetris, para el ZX Spectrum, y desarrollado en Basic Puro Tetris4px is a classic tetris clon, but it moves 4pixels at a time, instead of typical Basic by-character movement. It has in-game music, playing one beep note every 25frames. It can be played by 1 or 2 players at the same time. 9 Different textures available for the pieces, blended using Over 1. It is programmed in pure Basic for ZXSpectrum 48kb issue3 Contestant at Bytemaniacos "Concurso Basic 2023"  https://bytemaniacos.com/web/?page_id=3998 Fuente:  Tetris4px by ignacobo (itch.io)

  Tras casi un año y medio de ausencia, volveremos a disfrutar del evento más Retro y Ochentero de la Ciutat Comtal : La RETROMANIACS ARCANDREU . Los próximos 15 y 16 de Abril , el Espai Josep Bota del antiguo recinto fabril de la Fabra i Coats en Sant Andreu de Palomar (Barcelona), celebramos la cuarta edición. Este evento es de Retrogamers para Retrogamers , y también de aficionados a los Videojuegos y al Pinball en general. Este año le rendimos homenaje a Dragon’s Lair que cumple 40 años y del cual os estamos preparando una buena sorpresa.  Más información, aquí Fuente: Retromaniac.es

 by Sander Alsema     --- Rings Of Saturn --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2023. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 Source: Basic 10Liner Contest

Desde hace un tiempo, loa amantes del deporte Rey y del Retro, tenemos una fecha marcada a fuego en nuestro calendario: 23 de diciembre de 2023 Según la cuenta oficial en twiter del nuevo PC Fútbol, esta es la fecha de lanzamiento prevista para PC Fútbol 2024, una nueva revisión del clásico de Dinamic Multimedia que encandiló a los futboleros a finales de los 90   De momento, el juego se puede adquirir en preventa a un precio de 25,95 € en versiones para Windows, Mac y Linux y con unos requisitos, técnicos, acordes a los que tenía el original, es decir, poco exigentes para las máquinas del momento y poder llegar la máximo posible de público. Otro hecho, muy destacable y considerado, es que se está contando con los usuarios y los Clubes, a través de sugerencias y encuestas para el desarrollo del proyecto por parte de  Una Partida Más SLR , creadores de PC Fútbol 2024. Podéis ver una entrevista a Héctor Prats (cabeza visible de Una Partida Más SLR) en Vandal , donde cuenta...

 by Ben James     Platforming in parallel worlds Control 2 characters in parallel worlds at the same time. Keep an eye on both for hazards. Get them to their exits at the same time. Made for Trijam #210 Source: https://benjames171.itch.io/twisted-pair

 by Copper France     SPACE INVADERS This is Space Invaders for the Amstrad CPC! Keyboard left and right arrows are used to move the laser and SPACE to fire. The goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens to earn as many points as possible. Source: Basic 10Liner Contest

 by Sam Pedigo     Curious 10 liner game: 1 PRINT "YOU ARE IN A BASEMENT AND MUST FIND YOUR WAY OUT": PAPER 5: INK 2: BRIGHT 1: INPUT A$: IF A$="FIND A LIGHT SOURCE" THEN PRINT "YOU FIND A FLASHLIGHT": INPUT A$: IF A$="LOOK" THEN PRINT "YOU LOOK AROUND, IT IS BRIGHT NOW. YOU CAN SEE A KEY HERE.": INPUT A$: IF A$="TAKE KEY" THEN PRINT "YOU TAKE THE KEY": PAPER 1: PRINT INK 2;"THERE ARE MEN IN THE HOUSE;\o\..\o..YOU MUST FIND A WAY OUT" 2 INPUT A$: IF A$="OPEN WINDOW" THEN PRINT "YOU OPEN THE WINDOW AND LEAVE TO GET THE COPS. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WO-,NO YOU GOT SHOT..": PRINT INK 4;"GAME OVER" 3 IF A$="FIND A WEAPON" THEN PRINT "YOU FIND A KNIFE, IT IS RAZOR SHARP": INPUT A$: IF A$="KILL " THEN PRINT PAPER 2: PRINT INK 3;"THE KNIFE IS NOW COVERED IN BLOOD FROM THE BODY. YOU HIDE IT." 4 PRINT "YOU LOOM OVER THE LAST TARGET, YOUR EYES WI...

 by Stefan Hasenhütl     CPCMiniPac is a game based on Pac-Man. The aim is to eat all the points without getting caught by a ghost.  It runs on an Amstrad CPC-6128 and is written in Locomotive Basic 1.1. Source:  https://bunsen.itch.io/cpcminipac-by-stefan-hasenhutl

 by Marco's Retrobits     Day At The Animal Races is a BASIC 10 liner version for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K computer of the VIP Animal Race gambling videogame The original game was programmed by Brian Astle for the CHIP-8 interpreter running on the COSMAC VIP computer and published in the RCA COSMAC VIP Game Manual in 1978. BASIC 10 Liner video game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum by Marco "Marco's Retrobits" Varesio: https://retrobits.itch.io Source: https://retrobits.itch.io

    Title: Pearl Rain Genre: Puzzle Author(s): Patrik’s Retro Tech Medium: ROM 32KB Hardware requirements: MSX1, 16KB     It’s raining pearls, hallelujah! Patrik’s Retro Tech surprises us with a colorful puzzle game in which you are to shove pearls around, and also blow up some walls here and there. Even disco balls are involved, which even more makes the MSXdev Team want to jump that stage and rock out to Donna Summer. Or maybe even to Pearl itself ! As an actual summer holiday is still far from us, this game will help you survive this grim and frostbitten season for sure! In Pearl Rain , you’re seeking to find immense wealth and divine knowledge. In order to accumulate this, you have traveled to a sacred location where pearls fall from the sky, leaving them for you to collect. In the game itself, this means having a 9 x 9 matrix Smörgåsbord of deliciously retro-colored pearls at your disposal, and you’ll have to line ’em up to match three or more...