We had a road trip accross the pennines to Chorley on Saturday. We finally got to see the comedy legend John Shuttleworth (OOF!) He was absolutely brilliant! His merch was even funny! I bought his book and a wooden spoon (?) which he signed! Top man! #johnshuttleworth #oof #raisetheoof #legend

The game industry has been family to me when it’s come to my mental health, traumatic events, being an overwhelmed carer, & more. Support that’s saved me… as part of a dream career! I went on @gothbosscat.bsky.social’s podcast to talk about building a career in games when life is complex. You can!

So .. What's your Donkey Kong? #retrogaming #donkeykong

Still playing with this, but going in no particular direction. It's just fun seeing the Melkhior's Mansion characters come to life on the PlayDate. #melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

October 17th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=McB4...

Another new find. An invoice from Martin Galway for the Galaforce 2 music and sound effects - BBC Micro / Acorn Electron. Dated 2nd October 1988. It cost me £115 incl. VAT which was a great deal - mates rates! He wrote a brand new music driver ( player ) for this game and did an amazing job!

Trying out a new chippy. Hope it’s alright, looks a bit ropey from the outside.

Meta just emailed. I made 2.16GBP on MMM in August. Calling the Porsche dealer now.

??? #screenshotsaturday #zxspectrum #retro #brandnewretro puttycad.itch.io

Exporting portfolio shots of our work on "Mud and Thunder" for SE:R here at Rebellion. In the meantime, have some early blockouts from Design vs finalized Envo Art. #gamedev #art #gaming (Design - Chris Palmer. Environment Art by me)

Gif test...

It's here! The colour proof of FREEZE64 issue 78... ...and it looks good enough to eat! Coming soon to: freeze64.com/freeze64-iss... #Commodore64 #C64

FACT - The only remedy for that Back To School feeling is to spend 5 minutes nominating a studio, an individual, an inspiring person and the BEST GAME Made in The North for the Game Republic Awards. Here's the link to nominate ⭐https://gamerepublic.net/awards/⭐ #gamedev

Irl that's kinda happening. You've got less bright from the spectrum next and moar bright from the likes of Martin. bsky.app/profile/mart...

After a couple of well received issues of our free #ZXSpectrum magazine @breakspace.bsky.social, work is well underway for our 3rd issue, which will cover games released 1 July - 31 September 2025. We would welcome any feedback or fun letters to our letters page: [email protected] Cheers!

Here's a comparison timeline... 1. From the original Elite Games. (Published 1984) 2. My attempt at an update (Circa some 7 or 8 years ago) 3. My new attempt, as of (Circa this very morning) 4. The legend Lee Majors himself.

OK, this makes me very happy. Evercade has just announced the Llamasoft collection. 27 of Jeff’s classic games on a single cart, including VIC Gridrunner, Ancipital, Batalyx, Voidrunner, and Llamatron: 2112. YASSSSS. I hope the big man gets a few quid out of this. evercade.co.uk/cartridges/t...

Added a teacup pig to my #metahorizon pet agility game :D #petthedog #gamedev #meta #mhcp #screenshotsaturday @metahorizon.bsky.social

Despite Amazon constantly mucking about with the prices I'm still selling a few Retro Jotters... Can you guess which ones are the most popular?

Looking back through old stuff again - here's the covidiots on the train riding into Lockdown Town. #lockdowntown #pc #game puttycad.itch.io

Was looking through old things again... I think this was reviewed in a very early issue of Retro Gamer mag. #pottypigeon #retroremake They seemed to prefer the original but it was really fun to make this with me old pal Geekay. I put a few extra Gremlin Graphics characters in the background too.

Happy birthday to me. Go buy D*Fuzed (aka Quang Bang) KTHNXBAI incube8games.com/en-eu/collec...

I don't think you're ready for Jackie Chan's 80s fashion.

Indie Retro News: LittleBigPlanet on the C64? It's certainly possible! www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/litt... #retrogaming #gaming #c64 #games #commodore64 #littlebigplanet

Happy International Dog Day! Cyberdyne extensively studied the common Doberman with the hopes of creating a mechanical guard dog that could be mass-produced. Their research formed the basis of Skynet’s K-9 units, deadly Hunter-Killers designed to infiltrate Resistance hideouts.

I slept on this a bit, but here we are

Lovely review of Roguecraft DX by the awesome team over at Time Extension 🕹️❤️

This has been a little bit of a grind, something i'll talk about in a different post, but the Jurl logo has, somewhat, come home, it's Jurl for the Atari Jaguar #IndieDev #RetroDev #Retrogaming tonsomo.itch.io/jurl-atari-j...

Today I gave my little browser based Space Invaders clone a new lick of paint, just because! It looks a bit more authentic now. Free to play at bitglint.itch.io/retro-invaders #IndieGameDev #spaceinvaders #unity

FREEZE-ZX issue 02 Coming December 2025 Pre-order your copy TODAY from: freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXSpectrum #Speccy #Z80 #Sinclair

I want to make games faster but not with AI. I enjoy optimising my processes, and learning to make better decisions. So that I improve as a game dev.

Thanks to some kind words, my two #ZXSpectrum text adventure games are free for everyone this weekend! Give 'em a go why don't you! Also, some music is free too - have a listen while playing the adventures! Win-win! \o/ Hope you all have a fab weekend! *sheepyhugs* itch.io/s/159148/fre...

Just a quick little shameless plug/author update, if I may. I finally spruced up www.jamesbatchelor.me, so it's cleaner, ad-free, and more readable on mobile. Check it out! (And, as a reminder, www.wandless.co.uk still takes you that section of the site)

The Retro Hardware Discord channel is a very friendly place to chat with other retro hardware enthusiasts. We work very hard to make sure this is a positive and useful place for everyone. It now has 997 members! Want to join in? discord.gg/5fmPMzU

Here's the loading screen for Baby-Man 4 (Baby-Man VS Terminatots Pt 2) #screenshotsaturday #babyman #zxspectrum #puttycad #100TinSoldiers puttycad.itch.io COMING SOON

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYK... #gherbertgroundhog #zxspectrum #puttycad #psychicparrot

So the Amiga then. I've never owned one but always liked the look of them. Reading through the Amiga article in this month's RG & the games listed are pretty much all available on PC, Megadrive and/or Atari ST. I was thinking are there any top tier Amiga exclusives?

Thanks to @nanochess.bsky.social for testing on real hardware, the Jurl port to the Colecovision is released tonsomo.itch.io/jurl-colecov... #RetroDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming #Jurl

Crash (Sep 1985) - Popeye review READ: https://archive.org/stream/crash-magazine-20/Crash_20_Sep_1985#page/n71/mode/2up #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Last Five Concerts TerrorVision DuranDuran Taylor swift MTV EMAs 2024 Yungblud

Get ready for Day 2 of gamescom! Come by the 8BitDo booth and play the demo of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction!

These mini consoles are great & all but I can't help wondering how many will be played with once (or not at all) kept in a box & end up as landfill fodder when we all die & the next generation will have better things to concern themselves with than playing with their equivalent of a hoop & stick.

Linked-in be like: Job posted 5 seconds ago - 100,000 people have applied to this.

Announcement: I’m the lead composer for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction! You can hear a preview of the soundtrack I've been writing in the reveal trailer. Thanks @bitmapbureau.com / @limitedrungames.com for having me on such an awesome game!

here I'm building some levels based on kids designs with the level editor on the #lowteklightbook at 5x speed #gamedev #popupbook #projectionmapping

Thanks to The Times for “The 100 Best British TV Shows of The 21st Century” where The Office came out on top 👊

Yes, folks… the journey has begun! FREEZE-ZX issue 02 is officially in the works, aiming for a November 2025 release! You’re going to love the interview, which is a unique look into the development of Gremlin’s AUF WIEDERSEHEN MONTY. freeze64.com/freeze-zx-is... #ZXSpectrum #Speccy