Here’s a celebration of homebrew gaming grabs for you! The word “homebrew” has come to mean “making games at home“, and – in modern times – this has become a hobby/pursuit for many budding coders, game-designers, artists and musicians.
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Castlevania Special
Konami‘s classic Castlevania series is a well-known and much-loved collection of horror-themed games that spans from 1986 to the present day, although some may feel that the series has been neglected in recent times.
Castlevania began its existence in the form of the Famicom Disk System game, Akumajō Dracula, and has undergone many iterations, across almost all video game systems, including in the arcades, on handhelds, and on home computers and consoles.
Here’s a list of all the official Castlevania games ever made. Plus a selection of some of the best fan-made games and hacks.
In celebration of a landmark video game series!
GameCube Special
The Nintendo GameCube was initially released in Japan and North America in 2001, and Europe in 2002. It is a sixth-generation video games console, with a 32-bit IBM PowerPC CPU and an ATI “Flipper” GPU.
The GameCube was praised for its controller and high-quality game library, but criticised for its lack of multimedia features, and lack of third-party support compared to its competitors (PlayStation 2 and XBox).
Happy New Year 2024
As 2023 draws to a close we wish you a happy new year for 2024!
Best Wishes,
The King of Grabs
The King of Grabs is six years old
Today, 21st December 2023, is the sixth birthday of this website.
So happy birthday to us! 🙂
We hope that you continue to find this site enjoyable and informative.
Thank you for your support,
The King of Grabs
FM Towns Special
The FM Towns is a Japanese personal computer, designed and manufactured by Fujitsu from 1989 to 1997. The “FM” part of the name means “Fujitsu Micro“, while the “Towns” part is derived from the code name that the system was assigned during development, “Townes”. This refers to Charles Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, following a custom at Fujitsu of naming PC products after Nobel Prize winners.
10 Best Marble Madness Conversions
Atari Games‘ classic Marble Madness has been converted to pretty much every home system known to man (apart from those that it hasn’t been ported to, but then again: what have the Romans ever given us?), and here’s our list of the best…
10 Best Paperboy Conversions
Atari‘s classic arcade game, Paperboy, has been converted to a wide variety of different platforms. We recently played through them all to see which were the best, and here’s our list…
Q*bert, ColecoVision
The 1983 Parker Bros. release of Gottleib‘s Q*bert was a reasonable success on the ColecoVision.
Frankenstein Special
Simply: a collection of games based on the infamous 1818 Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
