Category: Commodore 64
With the huge number of projects happening nowadays, it is hard to keep up with all available to make your life with your Commodore machines easier and more fun. We try to post news about many of them, but this only helps if you see the post or search for it. What about learning about things for your Commodore that…
The eagerly anticipated Monstro Giganto for the Commodore 64 is back on pre-order after RGCD had sold out of its initial release round of cartridge copies within one hour. Monstro Giganto is a beat’em up style of game featuring large monsters going one on one in epic fighting battles. Developed by the Pirates of Zanzibar, the graphics within Monstro Giganto…
Have you been burnt by the 2015 keycaps Indigogo of Phase5 from Austria like us and many others? Jim felt the pain as well and went out creating his own C64 keycaps project. Having a long history in developing hardware for Commodore computers (C64 AND Amiga!) , if there is somebody who can pull this off, then this guy with…
Fresh from our vaults:A historic interview with Gary Penn, a video games industry veteran and former games reviewer for Zzap!64. Fun fact: The first Grand Theft Auto game would have been ended up cancelled without his efforts as a creative director at DMA Design (later Rockstar Games).Enjoy!Link: https://scene.world/garypenn
We’re back with another book review! This time Merman takes a look at ARCADE IMPERFECT – a book by Jerry Ellis and Andrew Fisher, published by Golem Books in 2021 with cover artwork by Oli Frey. Over 250 coin-op games get their tribute here along with some interesting facts. Each game gets a page review, detailing the original arcade game,…
Bitmap Soft have made a major move by producing their first cartridge release on the label – Freaky Fish DX by DESIGN/chaos. Freaky Fish DX is a fun arcade style game that sees you play a giant bubble blowing fish trying to protect the other little fishes in the sea from a dynamite wielding fisherman. The basic objective is to…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
A recent update by Bas Scheijde (aka Acied) has revealed that his Commodore 64 port of the puzzle arcade game Puzzle Bobble is being readied for an end of April release [updated]. Puzzle Bobble provides a tile matching style of game play where you use your pointer device at the bottom of the screen to aim and shoot bubbles up…
As of today, remute, the known musician, DJ and retro release music album creator on consoles, disks and other outdated media, joined “Scene World” as PR Assistant to help creating more penetration towards social media and awareness in the retro community of what they are doing.
For those outside the Atari XL/XE World to understand, #FujiNet is a modern peripheral for Atari 8 Bit computers. Conceived as a network adapter, the device quickly expanded its capabilities to become an SIO peripheral emulator. With it, you can access BBSes, retrieve Atari disk images from remote servers, create and/or play network-enabled games, store disk, cassette or cartridge images…
