Author: Louie Dimovski
The Zzap!64 Annual 2019 Kickstarter has gone live. As ViTNO reported yesterday, Fusion Retro Books are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the first Zzap!64 Annual featuring 112 full colour pages of reviews, feature articles, interviews covering the glory days and the current era of the Commodore 64 gaming scene. With the official launch of the Kickstarter, we can now…
Fusion Retro Books are pleased to announce that are collaborating with Future Publishing to produce the Zzap!64 Annual 2019 and are ready to go to Kickstarter to help with the funding of costs associated with printing of the publication and compensation of content contributors. Zzap!64 was the magazine that every Commodore 64 owner went to for honest, frank reviews of…
Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death for the Super Nintendo (SNES) was originally successfully funded under Kickstarter back in May 2015 with all of its stretch goals unlocked. One of these goals was to port the game to the original Nintendo (NES) system. Well, Electric Adventures has recently started work on the NES port and have just provided Kickstarter…
MatteusBeus, a homebrew developer for the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis, has released a video showcasing his early progress on his development project for the platform titled Crypt of Dracula. Crypt of Dracula looks to be a dungeon explorer game with some detailed graphics and atmospheric music. The video preview goes through to show some great introduction scenes and…
Fans of the great racer, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, can look forward to a homage of the game with the upcoming Commodore 64 project, El Loco Challenge. Jammerc64 is in the process of coding El Loco Challenge as part of the Forum64 & Protovision Game Competition 2017. Posting his early work on Forum64.de, Jammerc64 stated “Game in general aims at recreating…
Talented game designer, Alf Yngve has built himself a reputation over nearly three decades for releasing quality vertical scrolling shooters for the Commodore 64. Yngve is generally considered as one of the leading innovators when it comes to getting the most out of the Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit (SEUCK), the game creation platform released back in 1987 that he uses…
Psytronik Software have re-released Realms of Quest Trilogy and Realms of Quest IV for the Commodore VIC-20 via their Itch.Io page. Both games are available on ‘Name Your Own Price’ basis, which includes the ability to download the game for free. Realms of Quest Trilogy and Realms of Quest IV are turn based RPG game featuring plenty of dungeon crawling….
Retro Games Limited has released firmware version 1.0.7 for TheC64 Mini. Unfortunately this firmware update does not include the promised Advanced Launcher that would allow a straight forward method to play roms from a USB stick or allow disc swapping for multi disk games. Retro Games have stated that version 1.0.7 fixes “an issue encountered on some two-player games when…
Exploring the the back catalog of Commodore 64 games released over the past decade, you will often come across the names of Georg Rottensteiner, Richard Bayliss and Trevor Storey being associated with many of classic hits of the modern C64 era. Soulless, Joe Gunn, Barnsley Badger and X-Force are shining examples that have had at least two this talented trio…
The Commodore 64 has had a healthy gaming scene for well over a decade with the strongest resurgence stemming from last year’s releases of Galencia, PlanetGolf 64 and Sam’s Journey, to name just a few, along with the fuss made around TheC64 Mini. To take advantage of this spike in interest, Software Houses have been conducting soft re-launches of some…
