Author: Louie Dimovski
There is no backstory to Shadow Switcher, its all about game play, and boy does it ever deliver! Your objective is simple, go around a single screen level, collecting rings while avoiding evil zombie robots and carefully navigating through electric fields and locked gates. Collect all the rings and you will find that the exits open up, ready to take…
The Commodore 64 is not known for its turn based strategy games and its a genre that appears to have been neglected in the era of current generation titles. Carl-Henrik Skarstedt and Protovision are looking to change all this with the upcoming release of Space Moguls, a modern day homage to the cult classic M.U.L.E. Space Moguls allows up to…
TheC64 Mini launched in late March 2018 in PAL territories and instantly provided many ageing adults with great gaming memories from their youth. Upon its launch, TheC64 Mini received a mixed reaction. Many people enjoyed the convenience of the form factor and the convenience of being able to hook it up to a modern day TV without any fuss, while…
Does this ‘all-in-one’ Commodore 64 solution live up to its hype? The VITNO team has received their board and spends a couple of days of putting it through its paces. The 1541 Ultimate series of cartridges, including the Ultimate II+, has become a standard for the modern day C64 enthusiast, providing a highly reliable and versatile file storage solution. Its…
Retro Games Limited has just announced that the long awaited functionality to be able to load game images onto TheC64 Mini from a USB stick will finally become available via a firmware update to be released on Monday 8 October 2018. TheC64 Mini originally launched with limited capabilities when it came to being able launch your own images, requiring you…
The NeoGeo multi video arcade system (MVS) and its home game console variant, the Advanced Entertainment System (AES) were released by SNK back in 1990. The AES was one of the most expensive home video game systems released but it still garnered considerable demand in Japan due to the systems ability to deliver a true arcade experience to home users….
Collectorvision is pleased to announced that they have opened up pre-orders for two new games for the Intellivision platform – MoonSweeper and Mad Bomber. Moonsweeper is a shooter game that has previously been released on various other vintage systems including the Atari 2600, Colecovision, C64 and ZX Spectrum. The action takes place in space and on the surface of satellites…
Earlier this year VITNO provided coverage on new game for the ZX Spectrum, titled Scuttlebutt, which could be best described as a toilet themed version of the classic Game & Watch game Oil Panic whereby you must catch poo falling from a hairy backside situated on the ceiling of a living room. Six months on, developer Karl Hörnell has ported…
Alf Yngve, the accomplished game designer behind numerous SEUCK based games (such as Border Blast 3, Bank Run and Forgotten Forest to name a few) has checked in with the VITNO team to provide an update on his upcoming game Precinct 20: Dead Strange for the Commodore 64. Precinct 20: Dead Strange will be a horror themed game that will…
The Last Ninja became an instant classic for the Commodore 64 back in 1987 with high production values, isometric viewpoint, top-notch music soundtrack and ninja clan theme. However, fans of the game will recall that once Armakuni (temporarily) vanquished the evil shogun, Kunitoki, and collected the sacred scrolls, the game ending kind of fizzled out and was perhaps the most…
