RetroHomebrew

Some of the #roguelike entries being developed for the fortnight! itch.io/jam/roguetem...

Eikasia by Timothy Graham A traditional roguelike where a demon has trapped you inside an image. Plot twist: YOU choose the image!

Humbly presenting EIKASIA

A #roguelike game like no other, where a demon of Greek myth entraps you in an image dungeon, and you are the one who chooses this prison. Will you reach the higher truth?

Download for free on Mac, Windows, and Linux now

timothyjgraham.itch.io/eikasia

Finally: "PET Invaders" - Public Beta!
My personal take on Space Invaders for the Commodre PET.

Link to online-emulation:
masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pe...

Beta testers and feedback welcome!

#commodore #petscii #mos6502

A Green PETSCII image of a three-story house, with a tree out front, a fence around back, and a porch. The top right reads "ADVENTURE -BY JOHN O'HARE"; the bottom reads "HIT ANY KEY TO BEGIN"

Adventure 3: Haunted Mansion (PET, 1980) (Source.)

Looks like we have another ancient #NES / #Famicom ROM that has just saved from status of lost-media.

"Splatter World"
By Namco, 1993.

It has now been dumped online and can be played on your favorite flash cart of emulator!

#gaming #retro #retrogaming #retrogames #fcm #Nintendo #halloween

SUCCESS!!! WOW!!

echo is an information gathering spell. it operates on topology, so a sealed room right next to you will remain unknown.

#soon #pixelart #pixel_dailies #keyboardzombie #1bit #gif #animated

Greg Newby

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Black and white Apple II image with A BAD SMELL COMES FROM SOUTHEAST. A HAIRY OGRE IS COUNTING MONEY HERE.

It looks like there is some current Discourse about games being art

My contribution:

graphics: a surgeon, wearing pink gloves and light aqua blue surgeon's clothing and face covering and a light strapped to the top of their head. they are holding up a shiny scalpel. text: excellent! you have drugs for anesthesia. i will give you a new face! you are being operated on. [press any key]

asylum, screenshot, dos (1985) www.mobygames.com/game/56196/a...

SPHERE by Programmer Takeshi for Nintendo's Family BASIC has been preserved by @ozidual.bsky.social. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/10/s...

Whether 8-Bit, 16-Bit, or Battle Royale, It's Always Super Mario Bros. The original Super Mario Bros, which turns 40 this week, is lucky: it got several remakes over the years that retained what makes it great.

The NES is 40 years old today, and so is the North American release of Super Mario Bros. I wrote about its various forms over the decades for @endlessmode.bsky.social: each a little different, but always vital, and always Super Mario Bros.

No One Can Know About This: A Podcast Where We Play Every Final Fantasy Video Games Podcast · Updated Weekly · A podcast where we play every Final Fantasy, using recordings from actual play sessions mixed with commentary from our future selves.Hosted by Jeff Eckman and Ry...

The boys from @nockatpodcast.bsky.social finally covering Final Fantasy III? Don't mind if I do... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

I have created a bot that posts the finest* ANSI art that can be found in the bowels of @archive.org. Please consider following it for hourly 1990s text mode portraiture.

*whatever randomly fell out of discmaster.textfiles.com

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

1-bit pixel-art image of the logo from Game Boy narrative horror "Underlier: Deeper; Darker"

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker". The player character returns to the research facility after a short hiatus... but where is everybody?

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker". The player character realises that the crew must have gone *below* Suited up, heading down...

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker" Down here it's both of those things... Who's that?

Shameless #horror / #halloween -themed #selfpromo (Week)Day 4 🎃

#1-bit top-down #eldritch (?) #walkingsim for #GameBoy - first in an ongoing series

There's something down there... 🫧

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gbstudio #pixelart #chiptunes

Link: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/underlier-de...

Magic Locus: Ziggurat by Esper Pinion WIP 1-bit puzzle crawler

After about 2 years of on-and-off development, I am finally releasing a public build of my game, Magic Locus: Ziggurat!
#itchio #godot #dungeoncrawlers
esperpinion.itch.io/magic-locus-...

Oooh, pretty sure I had that! 👀

Keitai Archive Logo. Text: "Keitai World Launcher, GitHub repo with preservation tools, archive.org repo with games/media (updated every quarter, no commercially-available games), searchable resource database, contact form for removal requests"

Introducing @keitaiarchive.bsky.social, a website for Japanese feature phone game preservation resources. As keitai game preservation grows, we want our tools and preserved abandonware media to be as accessible as possible. Read on for more information! (1/6)

F-Zero Beginnings Added https://www.romhacking.net/news/3269/ #romhacking

Mole Mania DX is out now!
Enjoy this classic Game Boy puzzle game in full color for the first time in 30 years!

Get it at www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy/mol...

#MoleManiaDX #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #RomHacking

BubbleBack: The Story of Forward to the Past 2 by Sloanysoft ZX Spectrum platform game inspired by Bubble Bobble

Well it's taken a few years but we have finally made it. It took quite a bit to get it over the line in the end, but Lee Bee has done a phenomenal job on the music

BubbleBack, our sequel to Forward to the Past, now available for free on Itch.

Enjoy!

sloanysoft.itch.io/bubbleback

#ZXSpectrum

The Forest and the Trees by Jill Murray An upcycled game about finding ways to move on and finish art.

I took a Bitsy game I never finished, about a maple syrup heist, and turned it into a poetic memoir about finishing things, for a @gamepoems.bsky.social submission. I'm told it will be shared this weekend at the Winchester Poetry Festival in the UK, which I'm excited about. Takes ~5 mins to play.

what I do best :D a space sim in 73x40px 1bit color.
#pixelart #art #gamedev

#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #pico8

Bubble Symphony is the 1994 sequel to Bubble Bobble.

I went from 320x224px and 256 colors to 128x128px and 15 colors. Only achievable by very tight pixel art technique

10 games to get to know me:

* Bomberman II (NES)
* Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
* F-Zero (SNES)
* Phantasy Star 4 (Genesis/MD)
* Laserscape (C64 homebrew)
* Oil's Well (Atari 8-bit)
* Pengo (arcade)
* Final Fantasy Renaissance
* Contra: Revenge of the Red Falcon
* Metroid Planets

All the best.

This weekend on the Obsidian Arcade:

Friday 9/19 - Ultima I - C64
Saturday 9/20 - Retro Retrospective: EPYX

Join us as we complete our playthrough of a CRPG classic followed by a night of exploring the amazing library of C64 EPYX games! Streams start at 8:30 PM CST - www.twitch.tv/obsidianarcade