Fresh Homebrew: Moonspire (Commodore 64)

Exploration heavy shooters aren't very common on the Commodore 64 these days, and the freshly released and even more freshly boxed Moonspire is here to fix this horrible problem. It's a pretty huge game sporting 264 screens of clever action and atmospheric graphics spread over six levels, a lovely soundtrack, three weapons, a ton of options, and a very intriguing premise. The game was developed by Dušan Milivojević and Ari "agemixer" Yliaho, and published by RGCD.

You can buy a complete boxed and very impressive copy of Moonspire here, and have the game on a cartridge with manual and everything. A cheaper, downloadable version is available on itch.io.

Fresh Homebrew: Heroes & Cowards (C64)

Heroes & Cowards, Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power if you will, is an impressive, brand new fantasy adventure for the Commodore 64 by Brubaker, Sebastian Broghammer and Steve Kups. It sports an intriguing plot, lovely graphics, and --hopefully-- excellent gameplay, and involves everything from unwilling heroes and nasty magicians to broken pentagrams and medieval worlds.

The game is available complete with its manual as downloadable purchase over at itch.io. A vastly more collectible, boxed, physical version of it on 5.25" disk is available here.

Fresh Homebrew: Nightmare Busters (SNES / Super Famicom)

A brand new game for the SNES and Super Famicom, the impressive Nightmare Busters by retro hardware masters Super Fighter Team, can finally be pre-ordered complete on a proper, boxed cartridge with its full colour manual. The game, an arcade platformer apparently, already looks absolutely stunning, sports an imaginative cast of characters and will be the first physical release for the platform in the United States since 1998.

You can find out more about Nightmare Busters here; it will be playable on both the PAL and NTSC SNES and, of course, the Super Famicom.

Fresh Homebrew: Cascade (Genesis/Mega Drive)

Happy new year everyone! And if you are an owner of one of Sega's excellent 16-bit game machines and do enjoy puzzle games with dice in them, well, it's just started off in a very happy way indeed. Cascade, you see, is a brand new dice-based puzzler set in space by specialized retro developers Super Fighter Team and it's out now for both the Sega Genesis and the Sega MegaDrive.

The game comes on a proper cartridge complete with manual and box. It will set you back $50 and is obviously available for gamers worldwide. 

Fresh Homebrew: The Incident (NES)

The Incident will be a Sokoban clone for the NES with an extremely detailed plot by Khan Games. What's more, and as a testament to the indie/homebrew passion, it will make itself available in a lavish box containing the game cart, a CD with the soundtrack, manual, t-shirt, a plush block, stickers and a variety of extra goodies. 

Said limited edition of the game (all 23 copies available) is currently being auctioned right here.

Fresh Homebrew: Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island (C64)

Demented adventure game Leisure Suit Leo returns to the Commodore 64 with the highly promising Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island that can be grabbed both in downloadable format and as a lovingly boxed game on a 5.25" disk. This lovely new take on the 1997 adventure runs on PAL C64s and C128s, comes with all sorts of goodies and requires a disk drive and either a joystick or mouse. Also it looks lovely, lavishly boxed and will cost you 25 euros. You can order one of the few available copies here.

Fresh Homebrew: Sacred Line (Genesis)

Watermelon and Sasha Darko have developed and launched a brand new and rather exciting game that will happily run on both the Sega Genesis and MegaDrive: Sacred Line. It is a horror choose-your-own-adventure affair sporting some impressive sights and sounds and starring a truly intriguing private detective. Also a game that seems to have nailed the atmosphere.

Sacred Line is available in limited quantities and comes on a lovely cartridge accompanied by a manual and a box insert. 

Fresh Homebrew: Larry LLFLL (NES)

With Nintendo's infamous censorship policy defining the better part of '80s console gaming, it's no wonder that Sierra's classic Leisure Suit Larry games never appeared on the NES. Until now that is, as indie/homebrew studio KHAN Games have finally finished their excellent looking port of the original Larry game: Larry LLFLL or Larry and the Long Look for a Luscious Lover.

The seemingly wonderful adaptation of the classic adventure has everything we all loved in the original, a refined interface and will run on your NES regardless of region. This means you'll actually be able to use the iconic joypad to buy a ribbed, oddly flavoured, yellow rubber, gamble and try to find love. 

The Larry LLFLL cartridge will set you back an incredibly reasonable $50 and will come complete with dust sleeve, full colour manual, box and on board flash memory to save your games. Also, it looks fantastic.

Fresh Homebrew: Uridium (MSX)

Having appeared on the CPC, Spectrum and C64 since 1986, it was about time classic shmup Uridium made it to the MSX courtesy of dev team Trilobyte. And it's a mighty amazing conversion too; one you can download for free or preorder on cartrdige. The (numbered) cart will come in its very own plastic box, complete with cover, documentation and extra in-game content.

Fresh Homebrew: Shapeshifter (ZX Spectrum)

Brand new from Cronosoft for the ZX Spectrum: Shapeshifter. An intriguing homebrew puzzler coded by Ian Munro you can buy on a tape for your humble 48k Speccy via the Conosoft online store.

Fresh Homebrew: Atlantean

Don't think I've seen a new game for the TurboGrafx-16 and/or the PC Engine in ages, but apparently the wait was worth it. Behold Atlantean! A stunning horizontal shmup for NEC's classic power house sporting four underwater worlds, full chiptune soundtrack, parallax scrolling, bosses, bonus levels and more. The game is available on a homebrew cartridge in an appropriately hand-made case and will set you back $60 plus shipping. 

Fresh Homebrew: Bill's Tomato Game

Addictive yet frustrating puzzler Bill's Tomato Game was released roughly two decades ago on the Amiga, but the planned, official Sega 16-bit port never materialized. Until a few years ago, that is, when a homebrew port hit eBay and high prices and promptly disappeared again.

Well, this time around you too can have a chance of owning a Sega Genesis/Megadrive cartridge of the thing if you simply hop over to this thread and order your very own, very collectible and very lovably boxed (and numbered) copy of Bill's Tomato Game for $75/$85/$90. Better hurry up though, as this is a limited run.

[via the excellent RetroCollect]

Fresh Homebrew: Knight's Chance (Neo Geo AES)

According to the excellent Retro Collect, the lucky owners of Neo Geo AES consoles who also happen to have several hundreds of dollars just sitting there can grab a brand new game for their console: Knight's Chance. The game was also released last year for the MVS and is a collection of gothic-esque gambling games that costs $500.

Fresh Homebrew: Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set 3 (Commodore 64)

The time has come for Retro Treasures to start properly covering new, indie/homebrew releases for vintage systems; releases, of course, that come in proper, physical boxes and feel delightfully retro -- not just downloads. Kicking off the Fresh Homebrew series of posts is none other than Psytronik's 2014 Shoot 'Em Up Destruction Set 3. A fantastic shoot-'em-up collection for the Commodore 64 which offers six new, full games that come complete with Oliver's Fray cover artwork and all the bells and whistles of a modern release.

The collection is available on 5.25" disk (deluxe or budget) and on tape for the C64.

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