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Bug’s Quest for Tapes


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

Robert Small has reviewed two games:


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

Robert Small has reviewed two games:

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Robert Small has reviewed two games:


Bug’s Quest for Tapes


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.

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Incidentally, the British astronaut Major Tim Peake stated in an interview in The Guardian newspaper that Tomahawk on the Amstrad CPC is his favourite computer game. Cool!

Robert Small has reviewed two games:


I have rewritten my review of One Man and His Droid and given it a higher rating. It was originally one of the first reviews I wrote for this site, and at the time I didn’t really understand how to play it! Now that I do, I can appreciate it better and give it a fairer rating.

Screenshot of Dr Roland
Screenshot of Dr Roland
John Lobo has released a new game called Dr Roland. It’s a clone of the Nintendo classic Dr Mario that was originally submitted to the 2020 #CPCRetroDev Game Creation Contest. However John’s entry was disqualified, probably due to the organisers of the contest being worried about potential ligitation from Nintendo. If you’ve never played Dr Mario before, it’s quite similar to Tetris or Columns; you have to manoeuvre falling capsules and destroy viruses by aligning them so that there are four elements of the same colour in a row or column. Dr Roland can be downloaded from itch.io for free.

Robert Small has reviewed two games:

Robert Small has reviewed two games: