BrewOtaku #006

BrewOtaku is "The Homebrew Gaming Magazine" covering new games for old consoles, handhelds and computers. Dead ones live longer.

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As usual we cover a lot of various homebrews, mostly created or (re)published within the time range of December 2024-January-2025.

76 pages, A4 — four  pages of advertising.

News-Corner:

News-Corner: 20 pages of Homebrew-Headlines! Mentioning over 120 fresh released titles!

Sorcerer Kid Adventure (MSX), Titan Ufo (MSX), Fast Food (GBC), Blasting Robots (LNX), PixFight (NES), Santa’s Fall 2 (C64), The Pretzelves (C64), Geometry Battle (PSX), Ryōshi Shinryaku (LNX), Skies High (DC), Chuck Norris Superkicks (GBC), Hitokiri (C64), Dragonfire (GBC), Sam.PR Explorer (MSX), Rhino Express GBA (GBA), Scrubby Scramble (NES), Bereft (C64), Carzilla (LNX), Pleasuredome (GBC), Final Spook (C64), Rat Splat (GBC), Kirai (NES), Frogs (ST), Rintivoorh (OCS), Bombero (CPC), Revenge of the Grinch (OCS), War Marbles Legacy (GEN), Spaceship Yastuna (LNX), Crystal Place (CPC), Tank in a Dungeon (ECS), Binary Battle (MSX), Feliz 2025 (GEN), Casino Pokies (CPC), Skynet Road to 1984 (ZXS), Soko Banana: Tinsel Island (NES), Golf Dash Extended (C64), Sonik GemDash (GB), Robo Race (MSX), Maze of the Robots (ZXS), Molotov (MSX), Light the LEDs (OCS), Worship Vector (DC), Unbound Fate (GBC), Jumping Llama (MSX), Weights and Crates Deluxe (C64), Snowy and the Candy Canes (GBC), The Storied Sword (DC), Take It Racing 3 (GBC), Christmas Crisis 1 (NES), Galacard Advance (GBA), Pepper Buster (CPC), Q*bert (MSX2), Poppie Land (MSX), Snake Boxer 5 (VCS), Happy Bat (AGA), Welcome Hawk (Demo) (GB), Fuji Tetris 68k (ST), Umi Colors (VCS), Big Drill (DC), Robo Escape (LNX), My Pet (VCS), Dream Ride (DC), Bunnito’s Feast (AGA), Fish (VCS), Racing (MSX2), Jungle Trouble (GBC), 21 Grams of Soul (CPC), Alpha Man (C64), Sapermania (OCS), The Eternal Sleep (DC), Underwater Memories (GBC), Christmas Match (COCO), Beach Box (DC), Saboteur! C16 (GBC), Tony: Montezuma’s Gold (ST), Order of Titan (DC), Xump 2 (LNX), Old West (VCS), DuckHopper (XLXE), Throbbing Headache DX (ZXS), Bounce Quest DC (DC), The Last Escape (DC), Kolotoc (CPC), Ninja Hashiru (VCS), Don’t touch my Eggs (CPC), Heartlight (ZXS), Rainbow Defender (VCS), Schreckenstein 64 (C64), Murph’s Big Puddle Fishin’ (DC), Grub-o-Grotto (LNX), Fernandino (GBC), Plane Lazy (ZXS), A 20 Second Platformer (Chapter 2) (GBC), Moji Space (MSX), Hafoc Tor (ZXS), The Atomic Cathedral (XLXE), Lost Days 0: Queen’s Dream (SAT), Snowmen Arrive on Mars (VCS), Bbomb Bbot (LNX), Defense Horizon (XLXE), Dead Metal 3 (AGA), Avery Breakout (XLXE), Casey’s Gold (VCS), No Future XL (ZXS), Santas Present Drop 4: Grunch’s Revenge (OCS), Furore (LNX), Bubble Bobble (XLXE), The Artefact (ST), Hammer Smasher (GBA), Sequence (GBC), Cosmic Blaster (OCS), Lost Eclipse (GBC), Elf-n-Squirrel (VCS), Tracker Hero (ECS), Fruit’Y (LNX), Kommando Urbex 2 (CPC), Starship Madness (DC), Racquetball (VCS), Cube Droid Holiday Special (MSX2), Black Hole Descent (DC), The House of Mystery (VCS), Pacific Air War (V20), Sybil: Halloween Defender (OCS), Escape From PETSCII Castle (PET), Rogül (XLXE), Eternal Meteors (XLXE)

Homebrew Reviews: Soiled Iron (C64), Drop of Abu-Cymbel (MSX), End of the World (C64), Catbox (MSX), Trick Truck (DC), Ami Robbo 2 (OCS), Captain Ishtar 2 (C64), Fire Fighter Tobik 3 (XLXE), Elite (V20) & Defuseball (DC), Encounter HD (ORIC), Sky Shapers (AGA), DCA3 (DC), Yoomp! (OCS), Lunatic Fighters (GEN), Doom64 (DC), Alien Intruder (DOS), Wizonk! Magic Arena (OCS), Mighty Steel Fighters GGP (CPC), Santa’s Work Out 4 (C64), Dungeons of Gomilandia (CPC), Return to Anctrayl (NES), Super Star Wars Holiday Special (GEN), Bearded Fantasy (ZXS), Double Dragon II (SNES), Cave Dave (GBC), Crimson Ties (GB), Tarzanete (CPC), Echoes of Atlantis (ZXS)

Stories: faSTEr (STE), VNEN — SMD Visual Novel Engine, Kikstart II (ZXS), Lotus Turbo Challenge Series (OCS), Dr.Future Remix-Special, EverDrive N8 Pro (Famicom Hardware)

Interview: Jonathan THOMAS (Chicane)