Category: Featured Article

Aviator Arcade II (Commodore 64) – Full Game Review & Developer Insights with Mark Hindsbo

RGCD is gearing up to unleash a great new vertical shoot-em up game, Aviator Arcade II, for the Commodore 64.  The backstory to Aviator ArcadeII is that an unknown militarised terrorist unit has occupied the peaceful city of Suburbia and you have been called in to fly your state ofthe art attack helicopter into the city limits in to neutralise…

Review: Portal (C64)

Portal goes 8-bit in Jamie Fuller’s C64 tribute to Valve Software’s puzzle game!

The emotion of having it boxed!

Its early 90’s, Christmas time and it’s cold outside, you are staring at the shop fronts in your favorite part of the high street, the part with the blinky and attention seeking computer shops, it crossed your mind in one of your philosophical concerns, that if there is going to be paradise etc, can it be something like that? I…

Feature: 10 Awesome C64 Arcade Conversions

We look back at 10 of the best arcade coin-op conversions for the Commodore 64!

Developer Spotlight: Mika ‘Misfit’ Keränen (RodMan, Cheese & Onion, Pentagorat)

Residing in Northern Finland with a wife and three daughters, Mika ‘Misfit’ Keränen, obtained his interest in computer programming when his parents bought him a Commodore VIC-20 and he started to learn BASIC at a young age. His first gaming effort would be a text adventure for that very same machine. Little would he have know then that he would…

Shattered Dreams: Broken C64 Games

Glitchy, buggy, or just plain broken, we look at C64 games impossible to complete

Retro Revisited: Jumpman

We look back at Randy Glover’s remarkably innovative platform game from 1983!

Collector’s Corner: TK-95 – The Brazilian ZX Spectrum, but better

  Last year, when I went to visit family back home, I brought a CP-400 II, a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. When I went back this year, my objective was to acquire an MSX computer, which in Brazil were represented by the Gradiente Expert and the Sharp HotBit. With that in mind, I started my research, trying to find a…

Review: Barbarian+ (Amiga)

We put Raster Wizard’s 2018 remake of the classic hack n’ slash arcade game under the microscope!

When “Loading” was not actually that bad as we thought it was

It’s autumn around the end of 1980’s, just after the school season has started, but your mind is not at school but somewhere else. You look at the wall clock every now and then. Meanwhile thank god, there are those breaks that you can finally talk with your classmates about something really interesting. You won’t believe this mate, yesterday I…