Cover of Siemb Chronicles: Arkos the TraitorESP Soft has released a new game called Siemb Chronicles: Arkos the Traitor. It’s based on events from two previously released games – Dinamic’s Game Over, and Galactic Tomb – another game from ESP Soft.
In Game Over, Arkos faithfully served the evil ruler Gremla until he decided to revolt against her increasing lust for power. Now that she has been defeated, you, the hero of Galactic Tomb, have travelled to the planet of Hypsis, where Arkos is based, in a mission to overthrow him.
As previously mentioned on this site, Novabug held his second charity fundraising stream for Macmillan Cancer Support on YouTube, auctioning 20 copies of Yellow Belly’s new platform game Bug’s Quest for Tapes, with every penny going to the charity. The target was £664, but it was easily smashed, with a total of £2,500 raised! One bidder even donated an utterly astonishing £464!
Novabug's Bug's Quest for Macmillan fundraiser on YouTube
Amtix! magazine relaunched
Cover of issue 1 of AmtixCPC Micro Action
Chris Wilkins of Fusion Retro Books has relaunched the Amstrad CPC magazine Amtix! Originally published by Newsfield Publications from 1985 to 1987, Amtix! focused on games, but it was less successful than its ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 counterparts, Crash and Zzap!64, and it only lasted for 18 issues before merging with Computing with the Amstrad. Now Chris is planning to relaunch Amtix! as a quarterly publication called AmtixCPC Micro Action, with each issue containing 60 A5-size pages.
Novabug has uploaded a video to YouTube that shows what the physical copies of Yellow Belly’s game Bug’s Quest for Tapes will look like. All of these copies will be auctioned on a YouTube livestream that is scheduled to take place on Saturday 28th August 2021 at 21:30 BST (20:30 GMT), and all the proceeds will go to Macmillan Cancer Support. This is intended to be the only opportunity to purchase a physical copy of the game – once they’re sold, that’s it! However, images for use with emulators will be available to purchase at a later date, probably at the end of October 2021.
YouTube video showing the production of copies of Bug's Quest for Tapes
I have reviewed four games, and given that the English football season has now started, I thought I would include a couple of football management games (even though I’m not a fan of the genre):
Yellow Belly has released a promotional video for his game Bug’s Quest for Tapes, which you can watch below. It’s looking very promising, although some of the sprites shown in the later part of the video are of a somewhat, er... dubious nature!
Promotional video for Bug's Quest for Tapes on YouTube
Yellow Belly is in the process of developing a platform game called Bug’s Quest for Tapes, and it’s getting close to completion. It’s based around Novabug’s YouTube livestreams where he tests and plays a few cassettes from his collection of Amstrad CPC games every Saturday evening. In Yellow Belly’s game, you control Novabug and you have to collect as many tapes on each screen as you can.
Once the game is completed, the plan is that Xyphoe will play and attempt to complete it on one of his YouTube livestreams every Friday evening, and if you would like to purchase a physical copy of Bug’s Quest for Tapes, Novabug will be auctioning twenty copies on one of his livestreams, and all proceeds will go to Macmillan Cancer Support. In the meantime, a few screenshots of the game are shown below.
