MAGFest Demoparty is the demoparty that happens within MAGFest, short for "Music And Gaming Festival", a big event just south of Washington DC dedicated to video games music and games in general. We now have the results and all the releases ready for you to peruse. Thanks for the organisers for being so reactive!
This weekend, the self-titled "last party of the year" took place in Darmstadt, Germany, and we are now able to let the public in to tour the new construction. Some top-notch releases as usual, so get dug in, and add some screenshots, write some comments, or just gander at the wonder of it all. :)
The annual Atari scene event took place for the 11th time this year. According to the statistics the party had 254 visitors and there were about 132 releases. Again main-organizer Grey and his team managed to gather the core of the active Atari scene to release a huge load of stuff for all kinds of Atari systems. Like every year he managed to get special guests like R.J. Mical (creator of the Atari Lynx) via videocall to the party.
Portuguese demoparties have historically been few and far between (as far as we can tell from the worldwide demoparty map compiled by Conspiracy from Demozoo data) so any new one feels precious. Inércia 2019 took place last weekend in Almada and all releases are now available, including a port of the cult (in Portugal at least) Portuguese ZX Spectrum game "Paradise Café".
That's right, the first edition of CAFe was way back in 1999 on its home turf in Kazan, Russia. Over 150 releases were presented this year to celebrate the event turning 20, but it certainly wasn't all about quantity with plenty of releases being a pleasure for the eyes and/or the ears.