Okeydokey, there's three new reviews have just been added. We've got a conversion of Spectrum classic Sabre Wulf to the Commodore Plus/4 (or indeed any machine in the series with 64K) for those who fancy a spot of exploration and something that looks a little like Ghosts 'n' Goblins for the Atari 8-bit called Ghastly Night.

Finally there's More Tea, Vicar? which is a scrolling shoot 'em up for the Spectrum with a silly storyline about tea being outlawed and clergymen acting as smugglers. Anyone fancy a cuppa...?

Jonathan Cauldwell has just released Arcade Game Designer 4, the latest instalment of his powerful but easy to use development tool which opens up developing Spectrum games to pretty much everybody - the results from the previous releases speak for themselves but, as the man himself said in the news post to the Oldschool Gaming forum, "this is the tool you really wanted back in the 1980s".

  • External link:   Arcade Game Designer forums

The now annual RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition was launched a few days ago. For those who haven't followed the previous installments, the rules are pretty simple; each entry has to run from just 16K of cartridge ROM. Previous years have seen some excellent games such as Molusk, C64anabalt and Jar's Revenge. In fact there's already four entries announced including Max Hall's Cosmic Ark and Rocket Smash, both of which we've been quietly following during development. More information, a list of entries and the complete competition rules are over at the RGCD website.

  • External link:   16K Cartridge Competition at RGCD

Released for the PET by Mr Nop (who also wrote Oil's Well), Ladybug is an implementation of the coin-op game of the same name. That means collecting items using the rotating doors to aid in avoiding nasties.

  • External link:   Ladybug (download) at Oldschool Gaming
  • News source:  Format War forums

Just a quick update to put three more reviews online; for the shoot 'em up fans out there we're looking at some fifteen metre high battle robots in Mecha 8 on the MSX and there's a spot of time-based blasting courtesy of Paul Kooistra's Dead on Time for the Amstrad CPC. And speaking of Amstrad hardware, fans at the more masochistic end of the platforming action scale might want a peek at Rick Dangerous 128+, which adds improved graphics and the screens that were missing from the original CPC version.

Pix is CPCWiki forumite EgoTrip's go at producing a Nonogram-style puzzle game on the Amstrad CPC. For those who haven't previously played Picross or any other implementation of the idea, it's sort of like a cross between doing the crossword and using a character editor!

  • External link:   Pix at the CPCWiki forums

Gem Chaser has recently been released via the Xbox 360 indie service by developers Electric Wolf and there's already a Spectrum conversion available from Bob Smith. The game is all about collecting diamonds of a matching colour before changing that colour and going back for more.

  • External link:   Gem Chaser at Bob Smith's website

Paul Jenkinson has just put out a new platformer developed with Jonathan Cauldwell's Arcade Game Designer. Toofy's Winter Nuts (fnarr, fnarr) is, ironically considering the current layer of snow around Oldschool Gaming towers, about Toofy collecting nuts in order to survive the upcoming winter.

  • External link:   Toofy's Winter Nuts at the WOS forums