Category: Commodore 64
Retro Games Ltd, the company that manufactures the TheC64 (I never know if I should add the article before that name!), has announced a game development competition that seeks the best game for the Commodore 64 and VIC-20. The first place will be awarded a brand new THEC64 with an additional boxed THEC64 Microswitch Joystick. The runner up will get…
If you follow CSDb releases, you saw that yesterday three new games were released for the Commodore 64, with Halloween as the common theme. They are simple games, but they have a lot to offer in fun time playing them. Death Saw Challenge The first one is Death Saw Challenge from The New Dimension. Although set in a fixed screen,…
If you follow us on Twitter (or @CommodoreBlog. @RetroGamerNatn, @Al82_Retro), you might have seen some teaser images of the upcoming Commodore 64 game ‘Wild Wood’ and its astonishing graphics. If you, like us, want to follow its development closely and buy the game when it is released, now you have a single source of information via the website https://www.wildwoodgame.co.uk/. Wild…
Protovision is pleased to announced that Planet X2.1 for the Commodore 64 is now available from their webshop. Planet X2.1 is an enhanced version of Planet X2, considered to be the first real time strategy game for the C64 in which you are out to destroy the alien enemy bases to allow for future human colonization of a planet referred…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, Stoker, Alien Neoplasma, and many more. All that…
Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
Pedro Planas is a computer game retro composer and a YouTuber from Caracas, Venezuela. Not only he shares his passion for video and computer game music, but also gives us an inside about what is going on regarding the retro scene in his country and why it became harder in the last 11 years for the video game companies to…
Sarah Jane Avory has announced the immediate availability of her new game, Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64. Zeta Wing is a shoot’em up inspired by the arcade game Gemini Wing. Sarah managed to squeeze in a C64 astounding graphics and incredible parallax effects. The game also features: 7 challenging stages, each with their own graphic style. 3 difficulty settings:…
We’ve been posting many articles and tutorials about Punyinform, a C64 library that let you create Text Adventure games for the C64 using Infocom’s Z-Machine. In order to play those games on a computer, you need an interpreter and that is where Ozmoo comes about, a Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 written by Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg in…
