Whenever you activate the game Snake on your shiny Nokia phone, have you ever paused to think who programmed the game or if the mobile phone is the game’s first platform? No, I didn’t think so.
Well, I did. Not because of curiosity, unfortunately. It’s because I programmed a game just like Snake in Basic language back in the early 80s on my rusty Apple IIc.
“Wait! You mean to say you’re the creator of the first Snake game?”
Duh, no. What I mean is, “I was around 10 years old at that time, and I had been studying how to write different …read more

I wonder what Rick’s middle name is? I guess he doesn’t have one…
Ok, loyal readers that I’ve treated terribly over the past few months. Have you ever finished this damned game? Call me a wimp if you must, but Rick Dangerous has to be one of the most flippin’ difficult games of all time ever!

Chris Benjaminsen, a fellow who appears to be some kind of genius, has struck gold with this thing. Using the power of the Internets he has devised and deployed a retro gamer fan’s time-wasting paradise: Online. Multiplayer. Asteroids.

The inimitably intrepid British Gaming Blog delivers the goods once again, with news that an emulation fan by the name of PSMonkey has successfully installed an N64 emulator on Sony’s handheld.
More and more consoles are getting emulated on the PSP, and it seems N64 is underway now. PSMonkey has got Mortal Kombat to work on his emulator, and will be releasing it soon…
How soon though? And how popular will this prove to be? At least PSP owners will finally have some decent games to play (Zing! I’m on fire!)!
Peep this here video:

On the YouTube page for this video there is …read more

James over at Retro Thing has written an interesting piece about the $179 wonder handheld from Korea; Gamepark’s GP2X.
We’ve all heard some good (and bad) things about this little machine, and we’ve all heard about efforts to make homebrew gaming possible on said device, but while my back was turned the homebrew scene on the GP2X has gone stupid crazy.

As listed in James’s article, the following systems now have emulators on Gamepark’s machine:

SNES
Mega Drive
MAME
Commodore 64
Atari ST

All in all it appears to be shaping up to be a very worthy competitor for the homebrew enthusiast’s platform of choice… It’s fun pwning …read more