Category: Freeware

Mickey and Donald Game & Watch, ZX Spectrum

A building is on fire. Donald Duck is on the roof trying to put out the fire as it climbs up the building. Goofy is working the water pump, but if Mickey does not keep after him, Goofy goofs off. The hose is patched in two places. When a big volume of water is pumped through the hose, the patches…

Tiny Nightmares, ZX Spectrum

Tiny Nightmares is a game for the Spectrum 48K, based on the masterful 2017 indie game Little Nightmares, the work of Swedish team Tarsier Studios, developed for PS4 , XBox , PC and Switch. Tiny Nightmares is very far from the original concept of the Swedish game, since its mechanics, often based on the setting and psychological terror, are difficult…

Polymer Picker, BBC Micro

Your local coastline has become polluted with discarded plastic, which is harming the aquatic wildlife. Dive in and collect the rubbish, before the fish consume it and die. Each level contains eight items to collect. You then proceed to the next level. The fish are initially harmless, but later levels require you to avoid the fish if you can, or…

Flimbo’s Quest, Work in Progress. Atari XL/XE

Flimbo’s Quest is a 2D platform game published by British publishing house System 3 (later renamed to Studio 3 Interactive) for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST and Amstrad CPC. A ZX Spectrum version was produced but never released. The game itself was developed by Laurens van der Donk in the Netherlands who was involved in the DemoScene being in…

Batmanolo against the mutant attack on WeepingTown, ZX Spectrum

The evil Doctor Jose Antonio Malvado is trying to turn all the citizens of WeepingTown into mutants! Help Batmanolo stop him! Your suit is ruined but you can recover it for a little while and be more resistant, jump higher and throw your weapon to discover hidden rooms or paralyze enemies. Gather all the mutagen that’s spread all around WeepingTown,…

Oubliette 4 – Apple II Puzzle Game

To celebrate the return of Vintage is the New Old, our friend of the program and creator of the VITNO is Back logo, Daniel Henderson, has created a free Apple II game for the readers of the site. Oubliette 4 – Sir Edward Goes Forth is a puzzle game involving keys and gates and you must help Sir Edward get…

Excellent Shoot’em Up game for the MSX available for free

SHMUP! Kai was released two years ago by Imanok, one of the most talented MSX developers out there. Now, he decided to make the game available for free. If you look at the gameplay video below, you can see that SHMUP! Kai is a game at the same level as Zeta Wing for the Commodore 64 or many commercial games…

Hyperdrive – A new shoot’em up for the Amstrad CPC by Juan J. Martínez

Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000. The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixel scroll at 25 frames per second, not often experienced on the Amstrad CPC. Hyperdrive implements the power-up system seen in Uchūsen Gamma (MSX, 2019; by the same author)….

Classic C64’s Dig Dug gets special enhanced version by Hokuto Force

Hokuto Force has released an enhanced version of Dig Dug, one of my favourite games for the C64 (I’ve played a lot on the arcades back in the day, to be honest!). In addition to the NTSC speed option, the team took the time to fix some bugs in the original game and focus on features that would be appreciated…

2022 ‘Craptastic’ 4kb Compilation is now available!

Reset64 Magazine has been promoting the Craptastic competitions for many years and has already become a tradition. The 2022 compo has produced many excellent small games for the Commodore 64 since ‘Craptastic’ certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny, wacky, far out, and silly. The theme simply implies that the compo was just…