This week a brand new game join the line up of Classic Mania Games: Retro Pitfall Challenge. It delivers to all retro-gaming fanatic a game with the same feeling of the classic Pitfall from which take inspiration. With its unique and difficult gameplay together with a fancy vintage graphic design it’s absolutely worth of your attention.
Tag: retro games
Formerly known as Project Ragelaw, the one-man development team Orangepixel has finally settled on an official title for his new game- Ashworld. Taking its inspiration from Mad Max, the arcade action and story of Ashworld takes place in an open world desert wasteland, which is broken up between 3 factions of characters- the good guys, the Ragers (bad guys who find pure enjoyment in acts of death and destruction), and Skellies (essentially nocturnal zombies).
Mexican teenager Rubí Ibarra Garcia has quite the problem on her hands. You see, a few weeks ago her father posted a video on his Facebook page inviting “everyone” to his daughter’s fifteenth birthday party. A few hours after it was posted, the video was shared on the region’s official Facebook page, where a few internet pranksters picked up on it, decided that the word everyone literally meant everyone, and proceeded to spread it across social media.
Kemco, infamous for their ever-growing catalogue of mobile JRPG titles, have released the English version of yet another of their vast RPGs called Fairy Elements. While the game costs $7.99 for the premium edition, as a celebration of the title’s launch the game is available for $4.99 for a limited time, and includes 1000 In-app purchase points.
Capcom has always had a love/hate relationship for mobile games. On one hand, they love releasing mobile games on iOS, but for some reason it seems they hate to do the same for Android. It seems Capcom is finally giving Android a real chance, as the first 6 games from the Blue Bomber’s 8-bit era are coming to Android in January of 2017. This isn’t the first time Megaman has seen a mobile device.
Hyunmin Ryu’s one-man indie development team, R2Road Studio, has brought us a Legend of Zelda styled, action-RPG game called The Fable of Ruby. Peaceful laboratory worker Ruby is beset by calamity on the job in a mysterious tower. In order to overcome this crisis she embarks on an adventure fraught with peril. Ruby must make her way through the tower, defeating monsters, collecting loot, and heroically saving the day.
Released by Vblank Etnertainment Inc, Retro City Rampage DX is a brawler that’s recently been released on to Android. In this game, players will assume the role of a thug who’s looking for work, and referred to as “The Player”. This begins in the city of Theftopolis, back in 1985, with The Player’s first job being a henchman for an organized crime outfit, which lasts until a particular bank robbery goes south.
Developer Esayitch released his throwback platformer this week, “Tower of the Wizard”. It’s an easy-playing homage to the Nintendo Gameboy side-scrollers of the early 90’s. The game is done in an 8-bit style which we’ve all become very accustomed to seeing on the play store lately.
Nitrome has announced the return of their stretchy dachshund Silly Sausage with his uniquely talented puzzle-solving skills. After his adventures in Meat Land, he’s set his sights on sweeter locations for Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert.
Newcomers to the series and old hands alike, the time to return to Monares has come. Released only 6 weeks after their port of the original, the “The Quest – Islands of Ice and Fire” expansion arrived today. Title truncated due to play store limitations, you can find it under “The Quest – Isles of Ice&Fire”, available for $3.99 on the Play store.