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PAX is a series of gaming conventions dedicated to supporting and celebrating video and tabletop gaming. Over the last weekend, the Australian edition of PAX was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. While the convention features booths from major game publishers and independent developers, panels from video game industry insiders, LAN parties, tabletop gaming and competitions, it was the Classic…
We revisit and review the classic 1996 robot-crushing RTS game by The Bitmap Brothers!
There is no backstory to Shadow Switcher, its all about game play, and boy does it ever deliver! Your objective is simple, go around a single screen level, collecting rings while avoiding evil zombie robots and carefully navigating through electric fields and locked gates. Collect all the rings and you will find that the exits open up, ready to take…
The Commodore 64 is not known for its turn based strategy games and its a genre that appears to have been neglected in the era of current generation titles. Carl-Henrik Skarstedt and Protovision are looking to change all this with the upcoming release of Space Moguls, a modern day homage to the cult classic M.U.L.E. Space Moguls allows up to…
We play Super Trolley on the C64 and discover whether a game based on stacking supermarket shelves can be any fun!
TheC64 Mini launched in late March 2018 in PAL territories and instantly provided many ageing adults with great gaming memories from their youth. Upon its launch, TheC64 Mini received a mixed reaction. Many people enjoyed the convenience of the form factor and the convenience of being able to hook it up to a modern day TV without any fuss, while…
We take a look at this curious, seaside-themed collect ’em up based on the classic puppet show.
Does this ‘all-in-one’ Commodore 64 solution live up to its hype? The VITNO team has received their board and spends a couple of days of putting it through its paces. The 1541 Ultimate series of cartridges, including the Ultimate II+, has become a standard for the modern day C64 enthusiast, providing a highly reliable and versatile file storage solution. Its…
In this edition of Retro Revisited, we look back at one of the most infamous titles of the mid 90s, as well as the media circus involved in it’s creation.
Sort of by accident I’ve create a BASIC game for the ZX Spectrum, very simple concept and not very long. But this article is not about the game, but about the experience. To review the excellent board Dandanator from Retroshop (article will come up soon), I’ve set up a ZX Spectrum with the board, but also a cassette tape on…
