For the 25th anniversary of Boulder dash 1, First Star Software has released Boulder Dash vol. 1, a remake on Iphone and Itouch with updated graphics or the old school graphics.

The game costs 3,99€ for the 80 original levels plus 4 bonus levels, check Boulder Dash vol. 1 on Youtube.

Super Bruce Lee by Tony Rocket is another remake of Bruce Lee.

You can see Super Bruce Lee on Youtube.

Color Lines is a G.P.A. reflexion game yet to be released. But you can download its toolkit to add your own graphic skin to the future release.

There is a nice remake of Knight Lore for MSX2 created by Manuel Pazos (Guillian) and Daniel Celemín (LordFred). This remake features :

• Different palettes for day and night
• In game map that shows the player location, visited rooms and objects location
• Improved music (adding some reverb)
• Torch animation (can be disabled by pressing ESC while booting the game)
• Bug fixing of the original game
• Intro scroll showing the 'Mist tunes'
• On turbo R, the R800 is enabled to prevent slowdowns

Go on the RetroWorks website to get this remake and more :

• The game ROM (48K)
• A full game map using screenshots of this new version
• A user manual in PDF format
• Packing designs (cartridge label and box)

You can see a video of this Knight Lore remake on Youtube.

An update to a 2004 news, The Mercenary site is about the Mercenary games by Novagen Software and its remake MDDClone. This remake exists in several languages, last version is from January 2007. Only Mercenary 1 exists for the Amstrad CPC, the next versions were for Atari ST and Amiga.

I just added a new feature for the Amstrad CPC games database, you can now see video game footage from Youtube on each game page, see for yourself just below (javascript needed) :

Batman the movie

Or just browse the database for more game memories.

CPCGamesCD is a live CD by MiguelSky with emulators and the NVG Amstrad game collection. It has been updated :

• Includes frontend, new CPC Loader 2.4 by Troels K.
• Includes NVG games update 11.04.2009
• Includes Snap-Pack by MiguelSky (3576 images)
• Added new version 6.2 of JavaCPC emulator
• Includes Linux version of CPCLoader 2.4 and emus update
• Includes Maps folder of NVG and support for that
• Includes Links to T.A.C.G.R.

Arkos and Les Sucres En Morceaux are working since several years on an adventure game called Orion Prime. Its developpment is coming to an end, so to let you wait a little bit more, you will be able to find a teaser on the game web page.

217 Euros for a Super Pack Gun Stick (Ubi Soft) on Ebay. I hope the buyer will enjoy what he bought.

A new version of the Magical Drop game is available on CPC Mania. Some new features, and the correction of the keyboard management with a CPC+.

CPC Mania has converted Magical Drop for Amstrad CPC, based on a 1995 Data East arcade game.

Kevin Thacker has made a conversion of Balloonacy, a C64 game. The complet game will be sold by Cronosoft . You can donwload a démo of the game for tape and disk.

Elite was one of the best Amstrad CPC games, and Elite II on PC was a good game too. Frontier 1337 is a port for Sony PSP of Elite II, which I couldnt try at the moment though.

Groops is an Amstrad CPC reflexion game by Binaries Sciences, and a nice one. A new version without non important bugs will be out soon.

CPC Game Reviews has converted another ZX Spectrum game on Amstrad CPC : Area 51 by Jonathan Cauldwell, a platform game.