ReVival

Finally ReVival is back! We have been conspicuously absent for several months but here we are again with a hot issue, chock full of beautiful and good things. The homebrew video gaming planet is expanding! Given the news on Vectrex and Colecovision, you will understand that it was difficult not to give them more space than others, especially since the titles are excellent, be it Sundance, Vector Pilot or Puzzli, we would like all homebrew productions to be at this level!

However the Dreamcast, GBA, Atari 2600, Astrocade and other Lynx and Jaguar are not to be outdone and also show that they are ready to fight back, with news certainly less abundant but equally interesting to study and practice!

The content of issue 45 is already quite packed and will continue the hard work began since our issue 29. You may not have noticed, but 15 issues of ReVival have already been translated into English. Not bad, he?

We hope you are fully satisfied with the current formula. Feel free to give us feedback and mention ReVival around you. Because you understand it's our passion and we prefer to use 100% of our meager free time for testing, writing and letting you discover the video gaming pearls on a maximum of machines rather than spreading ourselves too thin in communication, even if we agree that it is essential for homebrew video gaming to get the representation it deserves.

Any participation is also welcome, especially when it comes to articles written natively in English. Think about it!

We'll conclude by thanking our partners outside of France: Good Deal Games, Fury Unlimited and 16/32 Systems. Thanks for their support and action to promote homebrew video gaming, since all three offer a fully packed catalog in this area.

Good retro gaming and our best wishes for 2012 to all ReVival readers!

A long wait for this issue but it's for a good cause:

- A new layout splitting the news to group them alongside the tests of a given machine and create some sort of mini-thematic features.

- Better printing quality and still in full color!

We hope you will appreciate these obvious improvements.

These aesthetic refinements, while significant, should not hide the content provided. It is very rich and always sticks as close as possible to the news, much intense and loaded.

Homebrew is something that still does not falter with the incomparable joy of buying a brand new game for old machines, some of them almost forty years old!

ReVival puts all his energy to satisfy its old readers as well as the most recent ones. Feel free to send us your comments and criticisms so that we continually improve what is the magazine for the homebrew video game homebrew enthusiasts because, yes, it is 100% directed to this area. Collection and retro are still covered in our articles, which highlight all aspects of gaming, including its packaging, its history, anecdotes, etc.

Here comes the third full color issue of ReVival. We hope you like this new format.

Contents are becoming increasingly complicated to design because of the constant stream of new homebrew that comes from all directions. Oh that agonizing choice to foreclose or postpone some titles for a future issue!

Sectis is on the cover of this issue 42 because it deserves it, even if not perfect. However, it is not every day that a major production lands on Vectrex. And it's also a way to show that, at ReVival's, we have a keen interest in this machine!

We continue the Zaku adventure on Lynx with a joint interview of the two people behind this jewel and we stay in the shooter with Fast Striker on MVS, coupled with some questions and answers by Tim Hellwig, one of the main architects. "Fortunately" The Void on Colecovision just breaks the insane quality of these two productions.

We catch some of our delay with excellent titles such as Dux and Last Hope Pink Bullets on Dreamcast, Jr. Pac-Man and Lead on Atari, SuperFly DX on Jaguar-CD, etc.

And we know how to find for you an unknown game out of nowhere - or at least greatly ignored - in this case Neo Pang on Neo-Geo CD.

In short, eclecticism is once again de rigueur and let's meet as soon as possible, certainly during February 2011. Know that we put all our passion and much of our free time in ReVival (in its French version as well as in its English one), and it is only because of this that there is no more than 4 issues per year. It would be impossible to ensure editorial and quality translations.

Have a good read!

ReVival continues its exhausting work and proudly assumes its status of the tireless voice of homebrew video gaming. Since issue 29 - first issue to have been made available in English - we covered a lot of ground to eventually reach our 13th edition!

Thanks to color in all our pages, you will not see ReVival as before, even the more so – fortunately – that these cosmetic changes are not made at the expense of the quality of articles. And, ultimately, the price is little changed! This issue 41 is also improved with a few changes to the original layout, including the technical specifications for tests. Nice work again signed Griffon, our designer.

The news has really been incredible for months. The number of ongoing projects and releases exceeds all expectations. Staying informed and being able to play all these titles is a constant frantic race.

That is also what leads us to give the best of ourselves, and we hope that you feel it when you browse our 44 pages that ooze the passion that drives us.

If we had told, several years ago, there would be ample scope for such a publication filled with only new games on retro consoles, we would have been called crazy!

Ghostblaster pushes the limits of the ColecoVision, Insanity just rekindle the flame of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 Mean Santa shows Santa Claus in far-from-flattering light, Zaku explodes with a thousand lights on Lynx and 3D X-Sector will make you forget that there are other machines on Earth that the Vectrex!

In short, eclecticism is again de rigueur and everyone should find their happiness.
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ReVival is now is a really nice new all colour format - well worth checking out

Here is the new issue of Revival, ready to accompany you during the long winter evenings. Many, indeed many, news announced or already there as evidenced by an interminable "In Brief" feature. Up to the point that it is very difficult to be comprehensive, and to be sufficiently responsive to order all these games as quickly as possible to be able to chronic them as soon as possible in Revival. Since in addition some titles are in very limited quantities, you must admit that being the champion of homebrew video gaming requires a constant search, exhausting but always exciting!

The high homebrew activity of the last months inevitably brings a lot of testing. Note that the Jaguar is getting a little healthier with the controversial MadBodies but above all with all the development related to the activities of the Team Jagware joined recently by Reboot with a promising shoot'em up. And in the interview "du jour" you will find Richard Ciervo, Mr. Rotary Tempest 2000 on Jaguar. Dux on Dreamcast was released over the past few months and we will present it in detail in our next issue. Ghost 'N Zombies is a real UFO on Colecovision and its author should not stop there. Finally, let's not forget Juno First, a small gem of programming on the Atari 2600.

Exerion 2 was also recently discovered on Nintendo NES, so we wanted to compile a detailed portrait of this underestimated title based on the original arcade version, and addressing its unofficial sequel Exerizer.

Revival 41 will come with the spring (let's bet on May) and will, be assured, chock full of good things that only homebrew development can bring to us, gamers, simple hobbyists, enthusiasts or collectors or all that at once. We can already announce Dux, Ghosblaster, Mean Santa, 3D Sector-X and much more!
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Comes with a special Adventurevision booklet for free!!!

Revival has still only one goal: be the voice of homebrew development, without abandoning however the strong relationship with retrogaming and video games collection.

And our aim will not change soon as the news continue to arrive by waves on a wide range of systems with, as a peak, the game Wind and Water: puzzle battle for Dreamcast and two choice compilations for the Atari Lynx portable system.

In two completely different ways, these games show different aspects of the homebrew scene. On the Dreamcast, one is trying to be as close as possible to commercial games of the Sega era, both in terms of packaging and intrinsic quality of the game. And if the first homebrew attempts, by The Goat Store, were nice, a company like Red Spot Games makes huge efforts to show that such projects can be economically viable, a unique fact in the homebrew scene, tending to be usually more confidential. And the next Dux (by Hucast.net) on this machine should only confirm that. But Yastuna vol.1 for Lynx is completely the opposite. Here the game is free to be downloaded, duplicated and placed on cartridge! Fadest, the author, insists that it should be respected, and it is… to his credit.

From our point of view, these two facets of homebrew are both as respectable and connect on the fact that the homebrew scene is vibrant, made of people wanting to create games, discuss, exchange, push the limits of the console, have fun. Then, what harm can be there to want to make a living from it and/or to make the largest number benefit from it, without making limited edition? One thing is sure: a freeware with such quality on Lynx and a near-commercial game with an unbeatable price on Dreamcast, we ask for more every day!

Revival 39 is not limited to these two major productions, reviews a maximum of new games and takes the liberty do a round-up on the news about the 8-bit Sega consoles that some Korean adapters should make you want to discover. And a small interview, almost ritual now, about a newcomer on the Colecovision homebrew scene: Collector Vision.

And we hope you appreciate the extra magazine, 8 pages dedicated for the amazing Adventurevision.

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Here is the 38th issue of ReVival in its English edition. And it is no less than, already, the tenth issue! We thank all the faithful readers in the world and of course, Good Deal Games for their unfailing support.

On the content side, it's once again a lot of news, tests, reports, interviews as well as a large feature: "All in the box!". It assesses the packaging aspect of homebrew games on all consoles.

Besides, the Nes console (Famicom) is in full expansion and the Colecovision is well revived. Both are at the top of the news these latest months. But the others are not forgotten for all that: the great Vectrexians is at last available, the 3DO treats itself with a two-title compilation, the Atari 2600 continues between discovered prototypes and actual homebrew news, etc.

All this is a testimony that ReviVal continues, in a nearly metronomic fashion, to offers to you all the news of homebrew video games. And, believe us, it is a permanent quest: being on the look-out for new developments, interviewing programmers, testing each game from A to Z and extracting its essence (i.e., the maximum of information and anecdotes related to this game), offering summary features, etc. In short, having content as eclectic as possible. We hope you'll enjoy again the 38th issue of ReVival, and we'll meet again for the issue 39, coming with a small additional secret booklet! You won't be disappointed!

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That's unbelievable! Aren't you sick of always hearing about these consoles that have been dead for so long? Aren't you tired of reading detailed tests, anecdotes, history, plenty of news, reviews?

And you're right! And the 37th issue of the never-ending ReVival saga will not tell you otherwise!

It's once again a flood, with the tests of a maximum of games on Atari 2600, 7800, Colecovision, Nintendo Nes, Nec PcEngine (Turbografx-16), SegaSaturn, Vectrex, Videopac, Sega Mark-III. In addition, we offer you a history of an uncommon Tabletop named Colorvision, and an interview of Martijn Wenting, one of the more active developers on Vectrex currently. And the interview of the Packrat Video Games company, made during the CGE2k7, and that we couldn't insert in the previous issue, because we were running out of space.

And we have our work cut out, given the nearly industrial quantity of new arrivals these last weeks. A real treat!

All the team and myself wish you a nice reading with us.

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After the relatively long wait for ReVival 34, this issue 35 comes much more quickly! Every one put themselves out with much concurrent work, writers as well as the layout artist, to offer, as usual, exclusive content. And fully packed, most of all! Lucifershalo went, egoistically, we must say, to breath in the air of the famous American CGE 2k7, and concocted an exclusive report, with a multitude of information around alternative video game and retrogaming. Mind you, it does fill a good part of this issue, which makes it a bit special. And while he was there, he brought back in his sack some news to test on numerous machines. Did you really think he was the kind to come back empty-handed? :-)

However, the rest is not to be sneezed at, with its usual dose of tests around an AtariVox on Atari 2600 feature, as well as the latest games released on machines such as the Dreamcast and NeoGeo CD.

In addition, on the oldies and collector items front, we start to draw your attention on the Japanese version of the Master System, and its close cousin the Sega Mark III. Notably because these games were released only there, and they use a rotary kind of paddle. You will be surprised by the quality and playability of the titles using this device!

Issue 36 will be published in the spring, because there are numerous things we couldn't fit in this issue. It's always like that with ReVival, and you must be used to it by now! We would already have made the magazine monthly, if only days were more than 24 hours!

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After the relatively long wait for ReVival 34, this issue 35 comes much more quickly! Every one put themselves out with much concurrent work, writers as well as the layout artist, to offer, as usual, exclusive content. And fully packed, most of all! Lucifershalo went, egoistically, we must say, to breath in the air of the famous American CGE 2k7, and concocted an exclusive report, with a multitude of information around alternative video game and retrogaming. Mind you, it does fill a good part of this issue, which makes it a bit special. And while he was there, he brought back in his sack some news to test on numerous machines. Did you really think he was the kind to come back empty-handed? :-)

However, the rest is not to be sneezed at, with its usual dose of tests around an AtariVox on Atari 2600 feature, as well as the latest games released on machines such as the Dreamcast and NeoGeo CD.

In addition, on the oldies and collector items front, we start to draw your attention on the Japanese version of the Master System, and its close cousin the Sega Mark III. Notably because these games were released only there, and they use a rotary kind of paddle. You will be surprised by the quality and playability of the titles using this device!

Issue 36 will be published in the spring, because there are numerous things we couldn't fit in this issue. It's always like that with ReVival, and you must be used to it by now! We would already have made the magazine monthly, if only days were more than 24 hours!
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Exhausting! So much news to present, so much new games to test, one has a hard time finding time to play. You must admit that having to force oneself to play beats the limit, doesn't it? But, as always, it's for a good cause: ReVival readers', of course! We had planned, similarly to the Colecovision feature of the previous issue, to make a huge Atari VCS 2600 feature, with tests of all main new games of these last months. The problem is that there are so much of them, and they keep coming! Thus, we had to split this feature in several parts, and that's why in issue 35 you'll find an AtariVox feature, as well as tests of other VCS2600 games. That's why also Kristof Tuts' (Vectrex) interview will not be published in our pages, but only on our forum! Hence (that's our remorseless marketing strategy), you will have to pay a visit to it? Clever, isn't it?

And yet, if there was only the Atari 2600, that wouldn't really be a problem. But other machines have no intention to allow the Atari to beat them. Vectrex, Colecovision, Videopac and Dreamcast all agreed to compete with new titles, some of which were thought to be lost (Vectrexians, for instance).

You'll understand we already know a large part of the contents of the next issue. And that until then, some new games will have been released. That's endless, and that's why it's so exhilarating to make each issue.

You do not imagine a single moment that, while you sprawl, reading this issue 34 with delight, others are slaving away, ruining their thumbs on theirs pads, bruised and exhausted, hoping to see the end of these fiendish games, and to be able to relate all that in details like no one else. No, you don't give a dam. And, finally, you're right, since all that matters to you is the pleasure of reading ReVival!

A good read to all of you. And a big thank you to all participants in this issue!

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All the editors of ReVival wish you a pleasant and happy Year 2007. The end of 2007 will coincide with 10 years of existence for ReVival! Already! Looking back, we think we had foresight being among the first to believe gaming on alternative consoles and retrogaming had every reason to exist. First, the reason of the heart, with the pleasure to continue playing on these machines. Then the historical reason, with the safeguard of this video-gaming heritage, still in its infancy, thanks to collectors. "Plain" reason, because it is not only the question of being content with a backward-looking aspect of things, but well and truly to go forward at the same pace development goes forward on these machines. We thus try to use the largest place for news, as can be seen in the Jaguar, Vectrex and Colecovision features of this issue, but also for the history of video-games, with a full feature on the first cartridge handheld console, the Microvision. All that sprinkled with tests of older games: how one can prevent give in to the charms of Attack of Mutant Penguins on Jaguar? No crazy 3D, no ultra complex commands requiring hours of practice. Eventually, people feel the need to come back to "basics", as shown by the current success of a machine such as the Wii, indeed offering a new experience, but based sometimes on simple concepts, and without wanting to go into the technological war at any cost. Granted, a lot of eyes turned toward this machine, but this shouldn't divert you from the interest of the other, so-called alternative, machines.
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From the French publisher of ST Magazine, comes Revivial....

A quarterly (?) in France , this is the first English version and it deals with the all the consoles that came before...

In this issue

Last Hope - NG Development Team, exclusive interview

Vectrex Goes Color: Spikes Circus, Star Fury

Arcade@Home

Atari 2600, 3DO, Dreamcast, Master System, Sega CD, PC-FX

Jaguar features - Catnip Cable, Project Apocalypse, GORF Classic, Fight For Life:Beta

Thanks to Dider Briel for translation from French into English
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From the French publisher of ST Magazine, comes Revivial....

A quarterly (?) in France , this is the first English version and it deals with the all the consoles that came before...

In this issue

Total Carnage on the Jaguar

Defender of The Crown on Intellivision, first images

Vectrex, Super Nintendo, Colecovision, PC-FX

Dreamcast - Cool hereers, Radirgy

Jaguar - Bomb Squad, Total Carnage

Thanks to Dider Briel for translation from French into English
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From the French publisher of ST Magazine, comes Revivial....

A quarterly (?) in France , this is the first English version and it deals with the all the consoles that came before...

In this issue

Cuttle Cart 2, the Atari 7800 is not cut short

Exclusive test of Duranik's bonus cartridge for the Atari Lynx

Chaos Control - Sega Saturn

4-Tris - Intellivision

Colecovision, Master System, Amstrad GX 4000, Vectrex and VCS 2600

More on Jaguar Development and 1st part on Atari VCS2600 programming

Thanks to Dider Briel for translation from French into English
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From the French publisher of ST Magazine, comes Revivial....

A quarterly (?) in France, this is the first English version and it deals with the all the consoles that came before...

In this issue

Kit BJL on Jaguar,

Home consoles tests - Sky Jaguar on Intellivision, Vecaves / Spikes Spree / Yasi on Vectrex, Gain Ground SX on Super CD Rom 2, Freefall on Nuon, I Cyborg on Vectrex

Tivipad Classic Arcade Flipper

Dreamcast

Portable consoles - Sorobangu on WOnderswan Colour, Loopz on Lynx, Elena / Eelectronica / C-Dogs on GP32, Neo Poke Kun on NeoGeo Pocket Colour

Interview with Johaness Graf of Duranik

Thanks to Dider Briel for translation from French into English
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