Retro News Roundup

Retro News Round-Up – January 2015

This month’s retro gaming round-up includes Chip’s Challenge on the NES, online multiplayer for the Mega Drive, and Pong installed on a traffic light. Yes, really.

 

This episode’s links:

Lemmings – The Ports book:
http://www.freewebstore.org/castlebooks/Lemmings_-_The_Ports_Book/p2820079_12771586.aspx

More information on the book A Gremlin in the works:
http://agremlinintheworks.co.uk/

Auction for unreleased NES version of Chip’s Challenge:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171572734485?clk_rvr_id=756771117597&rmvSB=true

Online multiplayer for the Mega Drive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6OeJYWAJ6c

How to play Toy Racer for the Dreamcast online:
http://www.crosshill.org/dcserv-org/?p=65

Outrun on the Force Dynamics 401cr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYCgUj6jlU

The Indie GoGo campaign to install Pong machines on traffic lights: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/actiwait-a-smart-traffic-light-button

Pre-order a copy of It Came From The Desert for the Mega Drive:
http://desert.cinemaware.com/preorder.htm

Order a Blinking Light Win for your NES:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/113891498/blinking-light-win-resurrecting-your-nes

Order the Super 8-Bit:
https://www.tindie.com/products/low_budget/nes-super-8-bit-video-game-system-complete/

Indiegogo campaign for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega

Download the new firmware for the GDEmu:
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/go-go-gadget/

Stocking Filler and Save the Trees for the Vectrex:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/232631-xmas-cart-2014-vectrex/

Santatlantean for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16:
http://www.aetherbyte.com/aetherbyte-santatlantean_for_pc-engine_and_turbografx-16.html

Love Dungeon for the Commodore Amiga:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=76240

Did It Come From The Desert? for the Commodore Amiga:
http://aminet.net/package/game/data/comedesert-data

Jam It for the Commodore 64 (it’s not actually been released yet though – sorry about that!):
https://www.throwbackgames.net/

More details on Ameba for the Dreamcast:
http://amebaofficial.com/

Fan translation patch for Dragon Force 2: Kamisarishi Daichi Ni on the Sega Saturn
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2181/

Fan translation patch for Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere on the Playstation:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2307/

Fan translation patch for Chaos Seed: Fuusui Kairouki on the SNES:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2181/