UZEBOX

The Uzebox community is officially launching its first game coding contest! We aim to stir interest in peoples to realize games and ideas sleeping idle in a corner of their brain! The contest will offer prizes and eternal gratification by having their names all over the place on the Uzebox site! Follow this link to checkout the rules and register.

Dominik Kristen (aka KILO) while learning C, released his first game “SubMarine”! It’s a re-creation of the classic submarine hunting games that appeared on pretty much all older computers and consoles. The forums post is here, the game’s wiki page and roms are here.

The holidays are near and Hartmut Wendt has a gift for the Uzebox community…his latest game! Pipes is an original game in the style of “Pipe Mania” or “Pipe Dream” developed by The Assembly Line back in 1989. The forum post is here, the wiki and ROMs are here and there also a neat video on youtube!

A couple Starter pack kits are in stock again, just before Christmas! All parts, a PCB with pre-soldered AD725, a 256Mb SD card, 2 SNES controllers and an A/V cable are included.  Check the Uzebox Shop. Very few will be made, so hurry up!

Jim Croskell (aka Roukan) has just published his first game Video Poker! Play against the house in the classic  ”jacks or better” on the Uzebox! The forums post is here and the wiki game info page is here.

The new enclosure kit for the EUzebox is available now! It’s made of extruded aluminum with milled ABS end plates . Details available in this forums post. You can buy it from hwhardsoft website.

Christian Garbs just released his first Uzebox game: Uzepede, a port of the Centipede arcade classic! Rules are simple: shoot anything that moves and don’t get hit!! The forums post and roms are here, the wiki page is here.

It’s now official, the Uzebox & EUzebox will be at the Gamescom 2012 in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom is the biggest trade fair for video games and digital entertainment in the world! Hartmut Wendt will be there with Christian (another Uzebox fan from Germany) from friday to sunday (15.08. – 17.08.), so if you are in the area, be sure to go and visit them! http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/en/game … /index.php

This weekend, Harty will show off his latest EUzebox as well as give a speech at Lange Nacht der Computerspiele 2012 held in Leipzig, Germany. The event lasts around  the clock and really is a smorgasbord of all kind of retro stuff: games, music, consoles and more. If you are in the area, pay Harty a visit…no excuses, it’s free admission! Check out the event’s website (via Google translate).

Happy Easter

Hartmut Wendt has released his latest creation, a game aptly named “Happy Easter”! Have your bunny catch as many eggs as possible while avoiding rotten ones and…grenades! The forum post is here and the game’s wiki page is here.