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Image: ThalamusIf you owned a C64 back in the day, then you might be familiar with Summer Camp (1990) and Winter Camp (1992), two titles published by Thalamus and coded by the late John D. Ferrari. Ferrari was already something of a legend in C64 circles at this point, having produced The Human Race and Hollywood or Bust. However, his two sports games created a new legion of fans, thanks in no small part to the introduction of Maximus Mouse, a cute mascot character. Given that Ferrari was working in an era where many C64 games were sold at “budget”…

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Image: Ocean SoftwareOcean Software’s 1991 Commodore 64 port of TAD Corporation’s run ‘n gun arcade platformer Toki is getting an unofficial fan remaster, it’s been announced. Davide Bottino — a pixel artist, game creator, and retro journalist for Zzap! Italia — is behind the remaster of the port and has recently been sharing some incredible new footage of it in action over on his Twitter, posting a first test featuring some of the newly updated character sprites. Bottino has been working on the remaster now for 20 months and originally announced his plans to work on a remaster of the…

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Image: Damien McFerran / Time ExtensionFor an entire generation of British gamers, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum remains a legendary machine. Host to hundreds of classic games and a hugely important stepping stone for many European developers, the rubber-keyed wonder’s influence cannot be understated – so it’s little wonder that there’s a lot of interest in Retro Games Ltd’s latest micro-console system, which is based on the Speccy. A near-perfect replica of the original system, The Spectrum costs £89.99 and uses emulation to run 48 pre-loaded ZX Spectrum titles. It outputs to your TV via HDMI and has multiple USB ports…

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Image: SegaThe i-Mode port of Sega’s arcade classic OutRun has just been preserved, according to the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo. The announcement was made over on BlueSky and Twitter, where RockmanCosmo stated that an individual named Yuu had managed to dump the game (using the debug cable method outlined here) from a Taiwanese F905i phone, along with another i-Mode title — a Shadow the Hedgehog auto-scroller named Shadow Shoot. Both games were originally released via Sega’s Sonic Cafe service, which was a Japan-exclusive mobile service active from 2001 to 2007, with OutRun landing on the service back in 2001 while…

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