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Homebrew review: Twin Dragons

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Pascal Belisle

Broke Studio is best known for manufacturing homebrew games for retro consoles, but they’ve also created original titles. Twin Dragons is their debut project, and it’s a fun, beautiful, and occasionally frustrating gem! It’s easily one of the best homebrew platformers out there. The story is simple: an evil wizard steals an egg to become…

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Homebrew review – Traumatarium

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Pascal Belisle

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Traumatarium. The graphics are excellent. Is reminded me of the “choose your adventure” book I read when I was young. Judging by the title, I was expecting to plunge into a dark fantasy tale where the player is on the verge of going mad facing the horde of…

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Glory Hunter GB Homebrew Review

Posted on March 8, 2025June 22, 2025 by Pascal Belisle

Glory Hunter is an action adventure RPG for Game Boy. It has lots of elements you would expect: you explore a huge map, you meet all sorts of original NPCs and you crawl through dungeons and fight bosses. The game is certainly fun, but it seems to be missing something. Let’s see. Glory Grinder The…

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A bigger update!

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Pascal Belisle

Hi folks, I finally launched my kickstarter campaign this weekend. It has been an intense experience. The game is 95% finished. I’ve been working on the game full time for the last two years. I cannot afford a third year without income so that’s why I launched my campaign at this time. I made a…

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Homebrew review: The Kubo Trilogy

Posted on October 5, 2023October 7, 2023 by Pascal Belisle

I recently received my copy of Kubo 3, a game about a gun slinging cowboy turtle made by a kid and published by Limited Run! Yes, a cowboy turtle game made by a kid! With the help of his father of course. When you are a young aspiring game developer and your father happens to…

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Homebrew Review: Jim Power The Lost Dimension

Posted on April 15, 2023April 16, 2023 by Pascal Belisle

I didn’t know what to expect when I loaded Jim Power into my NES. My jaw dropped when I saw that intro cutscene. For a brief moment, I was that ’80s kid again, coming home from the rental store with Ninja Gaiden in hand, inserting it in the NES, being blown away by its cinematic…

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Homebrew Review: Micro Mages

Posted on December 30, 2022December 31, 2022 by Pascal Belisle

Micro Mages is certainly a flagship title in the NES homebrew library. It ran one of the most successful Kickstarter campaign for a homebrew game, received a lot of praises and is still very actual. So, is the game worth all the craze?

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Homebrew Review: Witch n’ Wiz

Posted on December 26, 2022January 2, 2023 by Pascal Belisle

Thanks to the holidays, I took some time to play some homebrew games. And high on the list was Witch n’ Wiz by Matt Hughson. I was waiting for my Limited Run collector’s edition to come in. And it came. And I played. And it was a blast!

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A small update

Posted on December 20, 2022December 29, 2022 by Pascal Belisle

I thought I’d share a little update. I finished the core engine back in November, and began the level creation phase. I will make as many levels as there is memory available. I’m too lazy to do the math and see how many precious bytes I still have left, but even then, each level vary…

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Homebrew Review: Rollie

Posted on November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 by Pascal Belisle

Rollie is a typical 8-bit platformer with a fun bouncy ball mechanic. It was designed to fit the early NES cartridge limit of 40 kilo bytes, so it feels like an early NES title, with all its pros and cons. The game concept is great in theory, but is lacking a bit in execution, probably…

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