Author: Louie Dimovski
The Future Was 8-bit (TFW8b), predominately known for producing SD2IEC devices and the Penultimate+ Cartridge for the VIC20, has recently launched a new ‘9.99 Range’ of cartridge games featuring a number of in-house and user created titles. Initially catering for the Commodore VIC20 and Commodore 64 platforms, the ‘9.99 Range’ launched with the following titles: Cheese and Onion (VIC20) Nibbler…
Aspiring new software publisher for retro computers and consoles, Double Sided Games, is gearing up for its debut Commodore Amiga release, Black Dawn Rebirth. Black Dawn Rebirth is a dungeon crawler game with RPG elements set in a futuristic sci-fi / horror environment. The backstory to the game is that you are on a routine mission to investigate a planetary…
Nonogram puzzles seem to be all the rage at the moment and this is no different with the Commodore 64 gaming scene. Early this year, we saw NoNo Pixels submitted as an entrant to the RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition by Space Moguls and now talented coder Carleton Handley is all set to provide us C64 fans with a high quality…
Having had a busy week with their recent announcements that they will be handling the commercial publishing of Mars (C64) and ALPHARAY (Plus/4), Psytronik Software, in conjunction with RGCD has just confirmed that the nonogram puzzle game GRID PIX, developed by Carleton Handley, will be coming soon for the Commodore 64. For those not familiar with what a nonogram puzzle…
A conversion of Chopper Command, initially released by Activision for the Atari 2600 way back in 1982, has been released for the Commodore 64 (C64) and is now available to download for free. Chopper Command is a two way horizontal scrolling shooter set in a desert environment whereby the player controls a military grade helicopter with the objective to protect…
Psytronik Software have announced that pre-orders for the commercial release of ALPHARAY, their incredible new release for the Commodore Plus/4 and expanded Commodore 16 home computer, will be open this Sunday. Developed by the team that brought us Pets Rescue for the Plus 4, ALPHARAY is a visually impressive horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up that sees you power-up your Alpharay…
The 4MHz team are excited to announce that they have commenced development on Malasombra, an action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Set in legends and fairy tales, Malasombra is an ambitious project carefully designed to provide gamers with an epic adventure, featuring an exciting story where nothing is what it seems. The backstory to Malasombra sees you…
Psytronik Software has just announced that they will be publishing a new Commodore 64 game, Mars (aka Marte), developed by the team at Sputnik World. Mars will see you take on the role as a mission commander leading a crack team of 8 crew members on a mission to the Red Planet. You will need to keep the health of…
Double Sided Games is pleased to announced that they are now taking pre-orders for their upcoming Commodore 64 game, Vegetables Deluxe. Vegetables Deluxe is a match 3 style puzzle game, developed by Mike Richmond, with the objective to swap adjacent vegetable shapes to form lines of three or more in a row. When this occurs, those shapes are destroyed and…
Following last year’s launch of the 1/4 scale replica of the original PAC-MAN arcade cabinet, Numskull Designs has announced that it will once again team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment to release Galaga as the second installment in its Quarter Arcade range. Generally considered as one of the world’s most innovative arcade shooters from the early 1980s, the official fully…
