Author: Louie Dimovski
A new firmware update for TheC64 Mini is now available from Retro Games Limited website. Version 1.0.8. is slated to include firmware optimisations and improvements to THEC64 input response times. Hopefully, this means elimination of the joystick input lag that is plaguing many users of the mini emulator. Retro Games Limited also re-confirmed their planned commitment to deliver a firmware…
Bounder, the classic 8-bit bouncy platform game originally developed and published by Gremlin Graphics back in 1985, is now available for iOS platform via Apple App Store. The iOS version of Bounder includes the C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions all lovingly re-created to a high standard so it looks, feels and sounds like the original computer versions but…
Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…
Nintendo has announced that their Nintendo Switch Online service will be launching in September, with the key feature of providing access to a library of NES games adapted to the Nintendo Switch with online compatibility and voice chat, via an official smartphone app. Nintendo has stated that 20 classic NES titles will be available at launch, with the following 10…
It has recently been announced, on the Lemon64 forums, that Ste’86 and Excess are working on Speedball 2 Ultimate, an incremental improvement to the classic Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe developed by the Bitmap Brothers back in 1990, for the Commodore 64. While the actual game-play mechanic for Speedball 2 looks like it will remain unchanged, Ste’86 and Excess are looking to…
The 2018 Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition is currently underway, organised by The New Dimension (headed by Richard Bayliss) who are known for producing a library of freeware games for the Commodore 64. The current iteration of the SEUCK competition has been running for a couple of months now with three entrants (The Last Hugger, Atom Heart & Valkyrie…
The Commodore 64 gaming scene was provided with a pleasant surprise when, in late March 2018, Alexander Martinelle from Cogitare Computing announced that he was about to release a unique style platform game titled Counterweight Kate. In Counterweight Kate, you take on the role of a little girl (Kate) who wakes up one night to find that her toys have…
Amstrad CPC owners who are fans of platform shoot’em up games likes Turrican and Metroid, may have been looking at Steel Ranger for the C64 in envy over the past few months wondering when they would get to receive an equivalent quality title for their beloved machine. Well ESP Soft has provided Amstrad owners with a great response in the…
Knight Lore is an isometric action adventure game originally published in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game for the ZX Spectrum. Being the third game released as part of the classic Sabreman series, Knight Lore is generally considered to be one of the most seminal games to be released in the 80s vintage PC era and is often citied as…
The Sydney Hunter franchise, first published by Collectorvision in 2012, is a series of Mayan-themed platformers that have been released for various retro and modern platforms. Collectorvision has finally gotten around to publishing their first Sydney Hunter game for the Commodore 64, in the guise of Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe. You play the role of the great adventurer,…
