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Savage Princess! The name strikes fear into the heart of even the bravest knight! Take the role of Princess Ava as she rescues herself from her kidnappers!

Explore the castle, solve puzzles, and kill your enemies in this new game for the ZX Spectrum! Brought to you by the creator of “In the Walls of Eryx” and “The Wicker Woman”, this game is sure to warm your retrogaming cockles!

Princess Ava wakes up, groaning at both her headache and the realisation she’s been thrown in the local drunk tank again. “That barbarian still owes me a pint” she thinks, remembering the fight that resulted in her current predicament. But slowly it dawns on her: this isn’t the local drunk tank, it’s a dungeon. She’s been kidnapped! Outraged, she breaks free from her shackles and swears to punish those who would attempt to do her harm…

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About

Smarty is an 11-year old schoolboy whose grandfather is a wise and creative scientist. Smarty likes to spend his free time in Grandpa’s laboratory experimenting with all sorts of ideas and gadgets. Smarty has a dog called Slurpy who is his best buddy â€" besides Grandpa. Smarty also plays the saxophone but he often finds daily practice less interesting than something else.

One day Grandpa makes a huge breakthrough in his lab. The dream machine he’s been obsessed with for years finally works! With the machine, Grandpa has the ability to enter other people’s dreams. He’s planning to use this power for helping all those suffering from sleep disorders.

But then unexpected bad things start to happen. Dr. Nightmare â€" Grandpa’s arch enemy and a less capable but dastardly inventor â€" breaks into the lab and steals the dream machine while taking Grandpa hostage. Then, Nightmare uses the machine to take both himself and Grandpa into the dream world where he aims to use the machine to control people’s dreams and ultimately gain control of people’s lives.

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After departing Colony 7, Grelox receives a distress call. The Xicus system has been stricken with a deadly contagion and an urgent plea has gone out to collect the rare vegetation from nearby planets in order to formulate a vaccine. Reluctantly, Grelox turns her ship around and heads for the nearest planet…

Grelox: Contagion is a puzzle/action game where you have to maneuver blocks, hit switches to open gates, and avoid the roaming monsters while collecting all the plants on each level.

It consists of a whopping 100 levels across 10 different worlds and features an auto-save and level select. Controls are redefinable and joystick optional.

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For generations, there have been many failed attempts to recover the magical Chalice that was stolen from your once happy and prosperous world.

Now guarded by an ancient alien race, it’s up to you to take back what is yours, restoring peace and harmony once again!

As the hero in Mr Hair’s latest adventure, you must bravely journey through this treacherous world, searching for the stolen energy cells that provide power to the Kingdoms key chambers to release the Chalice.

Not everything is as it appears in this alien landscape, you must be cunning, you must be determined and you must even be willing to transform yourself into THE FLY to be able to reach the unreachable.

You are the last hope to bring back the magical chalice and save your world before it’s too late.

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It’s Earth year 2992. Humankind is one of two factions battling for control of the multiverse.

After a long time of peace throughout the Universe, the enemy faction, led by Prince Kalkux, have developed faster and more powerful spaceships, allowing them to start achieving important victories.

The human race has started to lose faith in their survival. Ships with artificial intelligence were not clever enough to handle new enemy ships. Remote flight via quantum entanglement was not reliable in other universes.

On the brink of despair, humans develop a new and faster ship, the “REDSHIFT” class, with a key innovation: a human pilot would be physically present in the ship.

Your mission is to take control of Redshift to expel the enemy from key galaxies and universes.

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Jim has set out to explore the caves of the Blimey Mountains in search of the “Coins of Doom”! He needs to gather all the coins in order to complete his mission. You have 60 seconds to complete each level to collect the coins and evade the “Cylon Ghosts”. Keep an eye on your time, the more time you have left adds to your score.

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It’s the far future racing event of the ’90s! Race you Slip-craft through 16 exciting locations, from famous Earth cities to the exotic distant dimensional rifts of Bubblerun, Farfields, and Weird in this intense single-player drifting speedfest!

Enjoy two game modes and play the game you want too.

Grand Prix Mode
Time Trial Mode

There is also some secrets for you to discover â€" more on that soon!

Story

It’s the year 2220 and all forms of sport are outlawed, but adrenaline junkies compete in illicit fast-paced races across the known worlds. Racing their illegally modded vehicles at breakneck speeds through tight winding tracks, competing for fame, glory, and of cause for the money. Driven by your insatiable desire for riches, you will now join these criminal racers in the forbidden circuits of Slipspeed!

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Battle with gravity across 40 obstacle-filled caverns as you aim to become the elite lander.

Along the way you will have to dodge lasers, navigate through EMP zones, and slide through moving doors, making good use of warp portals and bonus pickups as you go.

This Commodore 64 game is inspired by the original Lunar Lander and a 6502 tutorial by Oldskoolcoder.

Neptune Lander Elite was also named C64 game of the year for 2020 by Freeze 64 Mag

Caveman was originally released in 1982 as a Tabletop game, in which you play a caveman trying to steal dinosaur eggs without getting caught. Arlasoft has recreated a blast from the past game on your retro computers. This game recreates the large multi-coloured display so recognisable from those Grandstand tabletops.

This game comes on a double cassette package, featuring the C64, VIC 20, CPLUS /4 and PET versions of the game.

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Subacuatic Deluxe is a Double Sided Game
It Includes:- Subacuatic (Side A) + Subacuatic Reloaded (Side B)

Story
Ferdinand W. Templeton is to marry the beautiful and rich governor of Alabama, Mary Lou Kapowsky.

During his stag party on a yacht out at sea he managed to lose his most prized possessions, four rare artefacts that were to be presented to his bride’s father! Fearing this will mean he can no longer marry the love of his life, Ferdinand must search the ocean for the lost treasures, The Mask of Chichonitzá, The Jewel of Ebro, The Sacred Scroll of Ahamaramu IV and The Pitimini Flower XIX.

You start with just 100 units of oxygen. Beware! Being underwater will slowly diminish your oxygen levels, as will touching the dangerous creatures and plants found beneath the waves. You can restore oxygen by returning to the surface to breathe or, alternatively, find submerged air bubbles to top up your supply.

You can shoot harpoons to paralyse your enemies temporarily but use them wisely as your supply is limited. Recovering artefacts earns you extra harpoons. Good luck â€" Mary Lou is waiting!

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Does the site need a refresh, a new look, the basic layout will be the same but the backgrounds and so on, what are your thoughts, maybe a rejig of the boards on here too?

Hello

2021 is coming and to start to bring a vibe back to RVG i am proposing a chat night bi-weekly on a Thursday night, this can be changed the majority request it.

The big kick off is on the 7th Jan, be there or be square - I am going to invite some people for Q-A nights too.

I can not believe how awesome is this.



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I am shocked to learn Curt has passed away, I have had the please to speak with him a few times during my dealings with Atari related things for RVG.  Curt has contributed massively to the retro scene and will be missed by us all.

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The Story

Acorns … Magic acorns. In the world of Pentacorn Quest, acorns are made of solid gold, have great power and magic, and are a cause of dispute between the forces of Light and Darkness. But while these two factions went to war, the acorns mysteriously disappeared.

The objective of the game is to find the five missing acorns. It is rumoured that they are hidden in The Crack, but whoever ventured to this place came back empty-handed. It is now up to you to find the acorns and deposit them in the sacred sanctuary, solving many enigmas in between.

Pentacorn Quest is a mix of platformer and arcade adventure, with eight different types of enemies to avoid, countless puzzles to solve and a magical world to discover.

More HERE https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/pentacorn-quest/

Hey all,

Phoenix Ware a subsidiary of Bitmap Soft, imagine Psygnosis and Psyclapse, ok we are not anywhere in that league but you get my point.

The aim of Phoenix Ware is to release compilations, budget titles, re-releases and some other wonderful game-related things we have not even imagined yet.

The style and feel of this label will be very much with an 80’s vibe, the games will all come with a templated design like those from The Hit Squad publisher BITD.

All games will have this template, at least for tape releases.

This is the first game to be released also.

About

You play as Hardy, your task is to find and neutralize all the space monsters that lurk around a multi-level maze. There are special elevators to help you move between the levels. You will first have to find the key for each elevator. But not everything is so straightforward: both are well protected. And in addition to the monsters themselves, you will find many obstacles of varying degrees of complexity: from the completely harmless bubbles that simply block your way to deadly drips that kill the very first time. Your main enemy though is time, which is relentlessly diminishing with every second … All you have in your arsenal is a laser gun and your faithful fast feet. Get a move on! And good luck!

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CPC Soccer might just be the best footy game available for your Amstrad!

Play in:

â€" Friendly: play with a friend or against the CPU in an exhibition match to show who is the best.

â€" CPC Cup: Only the best players can reach the top of the CPC Cup and prove that they are the best in the world.
Organise a World Cup tournament of 4, 8, or 16 teams and take charge of your team as you play against the CPU or your friends and beat them all to become the CPC Cup Champions!

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/cpc-soccer-internation-edition/

About

Meet Cocoa, the intrepid accident-prone, time-travelling Mini Lop Bunny, on his first adventure. Cast adrift through space and time, Cocoa’s Time Burrow materialises in the 15th Century. With no fuel to get home…and desperately short of parsley to munch, Cocoa needs to use his skills and wits to refuel the Time Machine, recover valuable artefacts and satisfy his ferocious parsley craving.

Aim

Cocoa’s Time Machine has transported his burrow to 1452 AD, but he’s used all his fuel in getting there.

He’s on a mission to recover priceless artefacts for his collection. But is easily distracted by Parsley â€" his favourite food. So, find the artefacts, refuel the time machine, munch parsley, and get home in time for tea…

?…if only it were that simple, his new timeline has recently suffered a pandemic, and panic buying has left the land short of many essentials. The King has a desperate problem…can Cocoa Help?

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After many years of abuse at the hands of bats and balls, the Brick’s have had enough. They have now declared war on the world of bats and you are one of the last hopes to hold back their army!

Gameplay:
On each of the 12 levels, you must smash enough bricks to open up the goal zone and then fire a ball into that zone to advance.
Dropping the ball won’t kill you immediately but if you miss it 3 times in a row you will lose a life.
You will also lose a life if hit by a kamikaze brick, laser fire, missiles, or the giant brick.

More here https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/bricks-revenge/