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Imperial Mahjong by CargoSoft

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CargoSoft is very proud to present you its new game: Imperial Mahjong.

Imperial Mahjong is a reflexion game based on the Chinese game called Mahjong Solitaire, in which the player must make all the tiles disappear by selecting pairs that match.

The game features several technical achievements, including the use of two outstanding new graphic modes:

  • the EGX (Extended GraphX) that displays 16 colors in 320*200 instead of 4
  • the EGX2 that displays 4 colors in 640*200 instead of 2

A full list of these achievements will be published, but once again we don't want to spoil the surprise! For the same reason, we will not show any screen shot for now, for you to discover the game by yourself.

Please run the game on a real CPC! The graphics were designed to run on the real hardware. It is much, much, much more beautiful on a real CPC old.



Heroes Rescue, a new Amstrad CPC platform game on 13th August

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Heroes Rescue is a new game which will be released in two days on 13th August. It is coded by Javy Fernandez (Defecto Digital Studios).

There will be 20 levels :

  • 5 levels TMNT
  • 5 levels Marvel
  • 5 news levels the Simpsons
  • 5 news levels Futurama




Jewel Warehouse by EgoTrip, a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC

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Jewel Warehouse is a platform/reflexion game for Amstrad CPC written by EgoTrip. It use the development framework CPCTelera.

I havent finished it yet, but it is fun to play. Difficulty isnt too hard.

There is also a Nintendo DS version of Jewel Warehouse.

Another video of Jewel Warehouse finished by GiorVarm.




Demo available of Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz

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After Adios a la casta, here is a demo version of the platform game Adios a la casta 2 by 4mhz, a spanish team. They also wrote Sardina forever.

Adios a la casta 1 and Sardina forever are available in a physical package on 4mhz's shop.






Pang adventure on PC, console IoS and Android

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Pang Adventure by Pastagames is availabel for a low sum on PC, console, IoS and Android.

Solo game and multi in local network only.




Way of the tiger and gamebooks

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Until now for me, The way of the Tiger and Way of the Tiger II: Avenger were just 2 video games by Gremlin Graphics. But in fact, they comes from 6 gamebooks (la voie du tigre ou way of the tiger for more informations) written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson :

  • Avenger! in 1985
  • Assassin! in 1985
  • Usurper! en 1985
  • Overlord! in 1986
  • Warbringer! in 1986
  • Inferno! in 1987

A seventh book was written in 2014 by David Walters and also a prequel, available in paper at Megara Entertainment following a kickstarter project.

The prequel et the 7th book are available in english and french, the 6 original books in english only at the moment.

There may be digital books by Tin Man Games, but still not available (should have been 2014 and 2015).

If you liked gamebooks, you can download Lone Wolf one Iphone and Android.




Beta of a new Amstrad CPC game by 4MHz

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Adios a la casta (beta v0.99.3b) is a new spanish platform Amstrad CPC game by 4MHz. A video by Metr81 is available on Youtube.





Hewson Consultants, a book and some 8bit music

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Hewson Consultants, created in 1980 by Andrew Hewson, did publish several good games on Amstrad CPC like Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus, Firelord, Stormlord and Cybernoid, but not only.

Available on their site web, a book (epub or not) as pre-order, and 11 incredible tracks from 10 classic Hewson games, remade by legendary artists (reduction of 40% with the code retrogamer on Bandcamp).



An updated remake of Future Knight par John Dimi

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A remake of Future Knight by Johndimi is available (original game out in 1986).

This PC version has a map design which doesn't follow the original game but rather designed from scratch. Some game mechanics are improved, like the ability to move while jumping, having an inventory, faster gamespeed, etc...

The game features 7 levels. There are enemies to kill, items to find and use, keys to unlock doors, traps to avoid, shortcuts to take, new weapons, and bosses to exterminate.



A new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland by ESP Soft

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ESP Soft just released a new spanish adventure game : el misterio de la isla de Tokland. It is written by 6128 and use the game engine el DAAD.

It is based on the book of the same name by Joan Manuel Gisbert. With one year of learning spanish (and a dictionnary), the game is playable even if I didnt go very far at the moment. Thanks for letting me working my spanish this summer :-)

Download and more informations on the syntaxical engine on ESP Soft.




Andrew Oliver (Oliver twins) full interview by Xyphoe

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At the Play Blackppool 2015, Xyphoe interviewed Andrew Oliver (Oliver Twins) during 1 hour and 22 minutes ! Dizzy and Amstrad CPC featured of course.




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