New games for old machines
A calendar of new games for old machines: homebrew and indie releases for NES, Game Boy, Mega Drive, C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Dreamcast and more. Currently tracking 60 releases on 21 platforms.
This week (2026-10-12 – 2026-10-18)
- Lucky Drop!
A falling-card puzzler: build poker hands, chain them for points. World Tour, Endless and Time Attack modes; runs on real hardware.
- Nemeshit
A crude-humour side-scrolling shmup: a shrunken pilot blasts his way through a human body from one end to the other.
Upcoming
- Earthion
A new horizontal shoot-em-up from Ancient: defend a ruined Earth from invaders. The 16-bit cartridge is still to come.
- Sword of the Apocalypse
A cinematic 16-bit action game with fluid combat.
- Afterschool Adventurers Club
An adventure about a school club whose tabletop RPG sessions turn dangerous after a group of players vanishes.
- Bill the Dog
An arcade-style platformer for the NES, funded through a pre-order campaign.
- Donut Dodo (N64)
A rebuilt port of the single-screen arcade platformer, adding a marathon mode and offline achievements. Dreamcast port next.
- Elansar
A Myst-style point-and-click puzzle exploration game set on a mysterious island.
- Halcyon
A sci-fi exploration game: drive and upgrade a tank across the surface of a hostile planet and dig up its secrets.
- Monster Chess
Gothic fantasy chess with animated monster pieces, battle animations and FM music.
- NightVein
Fast top-down hack-and-shoot action across enemy-packed maps.
- Tactus
A rhythm roguelike dungeon crawler where every move lands on the beat, using the Rainbow cartridge for extra audio.
- The Year I Wrote You
A personal narrative adventure about a relationship, a breakup and the letters written afterwards, told through dreamlike levels.
- TORGMAN Adventures Part.2
A Mega Man-flavoured action platformer: six stages and six bosses that nod to well-known NES moments.
Just released
- Void Angel: Absolute Victory
A boss-rush shmup: five celestial machines, three phases each, against a pitch-black void.
- BlissFire
Arena action RPG starring a small robot with an arm cannon and an oversized sword; level up and knock enemies flying.
- Flowers of Azathoth
A calm "cosmic terrarium": play a moth carrying pollen to breed 81 strange flowers under a dreaming eye.
- BOLT – Escape from the Factory
A flip-screen platformer: a unicycling robot collects 114 energy cells across 20 rooms to escape a factory.
- Neon Snake
Snake reimagined in a glowing 3D cyberspace, with a chase cam or classic top-down view.
- Bio Blade: A Star Odyssey
A space action game written in C with SGDK: help Saya save humanity.
- Rocket Raid
A Missile Command-style defence game for Sega CD / Mega CD: time your blasts to protect the cities.
- Razing Core
A vertical shoot-em-up for the Master System and Mark III: an alien Core drags your ship into a war over Earth.
- Green Land
A quick pick-up-and-play board game for the Atari Lynx in a numbered collector’s box. Month based on reports of August shipping.
- Beltrunner
A score-attack asteroid-belt game where you keep a countdown alive; also on PC and Wii.
- Red Tanks
Top-down tank shooter: wipe out red tanks or clear every pellet, while managing limited ammo.
- SagaCrystal: Quest for Pie
A short, simple RPG for the Mega Drive.