Tetris Mix - 1980's Tetris classic comes over to the Pico-8 as a first preview!

One of the most popular games of all time was a tile-matching, block rotating puzzle video game first released in 1984 which became a huge hit on the Gameboy in 1989.  It just had to be the classic 'Tetris'; a game that caused many people to spend hours playing to the point of addiction. Although we've had numerous clones over the years some of them good and some of them rather bad, today's

Thrust 30 - A truly awesome version of Thrust aims for a Greenlight success

Earlier this month we did a big feature of HayesMaker's Thrust remake known as ' Thrust 30 ' for PC, Mac and Linux. It is a 2D vectored game that celebrated the 30th anniversary of Jeremy Smith's "Thrust", which puts you in control of a fast moving ship that could blast away defences, take out power stations and tractor orbs from deep underground and out into space. Well you'll be pleased to

Dreamworld Pogie - A 'new' old game by The Oliver Twins gets a Kickstarter

Well this news came as a complete surprise to us, as once again The Oliver Twins has found a game in their rather large and mysterious attic, Dreamworld Pogie. Now many of you may remember Wonderland Dizzy being found as a source code and graphics on a once long lost floppy disk, that needed a ton of work to get it to a final state. But I bet you haven't heard of Dreamworld Pogie! That's

Thrust 30 - Hayes Maker Games celebrates the 30th anniversary of Jeremy Smith's "Thrust"

I'm sure many retro gamers will remember Thrust, which was first published by Firebird Software Ltd and released in 1986. It also originally came on a multitude of systems including the Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Electron, Vectrex, and ZX Spectrum. In fact it was such a popular game, over the years we've had many remakes and

PicoFox - Fly your Arwing in this Pico-8 demake of an iconic SNES game

Day in day out we get the latest updates from around the world of games being released, or are in development. But when it comes to this gem of a Pico-8 game which is also playable in your browser, it is a rather special breed indeed. This is a demake of the classic 1990's SNES game ' Star Fox/Star Wing ', developed by electricgryphon for the Pico-8 and renamed as ' PicoFox '! It  has 3 levels

We Missed You! - Have you ever wanted to play as a Hermes driver? Now you can!

Something for everyone today as a new Pico-8 game caught my eye and puts you in control of a courier van out to cause as much carnage as possible before making a delivery. Titled as ' We Missed You! ' and developed by Rhys for the LD33, you must smash your way through the town to deliver a package, but this must be done when the person is at work or when they are not looking. So basically the

PIC-Oh Mummy! - Classic 8bit game comes to the Pico-8 with a difference!

One of my favourite Amstrad games ' Oh Mummy! ' has surfaced again, and this time on the Pico-8 as PIC-Oh Mummy! developed by Hokutoy, but in his own style. Oh Mummy in my opinion was and still is one of the best games on the Amstrad from 1984 and it was created by Gem Software and published by none other than Amsoft, a well known publisher for the Amstrad computer. It had fun gameplay

PAT Shooter - A chaotic blaster for pico-8 and PC

Back to the Pico-8 games today and this one is called PAT Shooter, developed by Benjamin Soulé. A rather old game compared to the more recent ones we've been featuring, you play as a tiny space ship that has to destroy many waves of enemies for an ever high score or you'll end up dying and having to start all over again. Not only is this game available on the Pico-8 but you can play it in your

Undercopter - Cave exploring with a depleting fuel supply

It's damp, chilly and wet outside so what better way to spend the day than inside playing some free games. This is ' Undercopter ' by Xanthus, a remade game for the Pico8 whereby you are piloting a tiny green helicopter deep underground in a very large cave system. Your task? To survive and collect everything before your fuel supply runs out for a high score. Just be careful of enemies while

194-8 - Arcade inspired shoot em up available for the Pico-8!

Some more Pico-8 news today and one that is closely inspired by the shoot em up '1942' by Capcom released in 1984, is the latest version 1.0 of 194-8 by LeDjinn for the Pico-8 and your PC playable in a browser. In this game you pilot a green plane with a gun and a powerful beam weapon, that has to destroy many waves of enemies to reach and destroy the end boss for a level completion. Just be

Wizardish - Pico-8 Dungeon Crawler gets a major v2.0 update

Only just last month Eduardolicious with music by 0xabad1dea, released the updated old school retro dungeon crawler ' Wizardish ' for the Pico-8, with a browser based version also available. It was developed as a Wizardry game in his own style using 80's graphics that gave you the feeling of walking through tight tunnels while battling strange beasts, and collecting loot all with up to four

The Internet Archive adds over 10,365 Amiga titles to its ever growing list!

Way back in 2014 we mentioned some of the best websites to play classic retro systems online. Systems such as the CPC, NES, MSX and loads more were completely playable directly through your browser. One such site called "The Archive" had a massive game list from the 1970's through to the 1990's, all emulated in JSMAME containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and

Invader Overload - Space Invaders just became even more wicked on the Pico-8!

Now here's a blast from the past, a game based on probably the oldest mentioned game on our site ' Space Invaders '. Released in 1978 as an arcade shooter developed by Tomohiro Nishikado, your task was to defeat waves of aliens and earn as many points as possible, while trying to avoid being shot at or touched by the slowly lowering waves. This game however ' Invader Overload ' which is based

TRUN - MSX game based on movie Tron looks cool as!

In 1982 many of us had the pleasure of seeing the awesome science fiction film Tron! It pulled not just a computer hacker, but even the viewers into a digital world full of trippy colours, 80's computer graphics and fast paced digital motorbike destructive racing. Well fast forward to the end of last month and VG Source in collaboration with thepetsmode and Frankitu released the Tron clone '