Category: Homebrew Games News
Fans of the current Commodore 64 gaming scene are blessed to have passionate game designers such as Trevor Storey to provide great re-interpretations of classic 8-bit games that provide great gaming enjoyment in the modern day environment. Today we take a look back at one of Storey’s more successful collaboration projects with coder Achim Volkers, Darkness, originally distributed by RGCD…
Several months ago, we were excited to preview Dawn of Kernel, the latest game in development for the Amstrad CPC 464 by Juan J. Martinez (Resucing Orc, Magica, Golden Tail). The game has finally been released to the general public, and we finally got some time to go hands-on with this nifty little flick-screen arcade shooter! In terms of system support, the…
Henrique Olifiers has announced on the ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter page that all the 2B boards will be in production starting next week! The 2B is the final version of the board, which receive some changes and adjustments from users feedback that are using the 2A. In the short update, Henrique also gave updates about the keyboard and the case….
RGCD, one of the leading publishers of current generation Commodore 64 games, has announced that they have re-released the fun blasting arcade style game, Rocket Smash Ex for the C64. Developed by John Christian Lønningdal & Saul Cross, Rocket Smash Ex is a single screen arcade game that requires you to reassemble and refuel your crashed rocket ship before running…
The C64 SEUCK (Shoot’Em Up Construction Kit) Compo 2018, organised by Richard Bayliss from The New Dimension has come to an end with all votes tallied and the winner announced. Bayliss was pleased to announced that the winner of this year’s competition is….Valkyrie 3 by Eleanor Burns. Eleanor Burn’s vertical scrolling shooter sees you fly your plane through 6 different zones, battling…
The ROM hacking community is often a source of interesting news in the homebrew gaming scene, so we were intrigued to learn of an English translation patch recently made available for Magic Knight Rayearth, a JRPG released in 1994 for the Sega Game Gear. The game debuted in Japan (including a red, branded edition of the console), and with no English…
RGCD and Psytronik Software are pleased to announce the release of Yoomp! 64 for the Commodore 64. Developed by Zbigniew Ross and featuring sound by Michal Brzeski, Yoomp! 64 is a Commodore 64 port of the Atari XE/XL indie arcade game Yoomp! where you bounce a ball through 23 three-dimensional textured tubes and collect as many points as you can…
Thalamus Digital Publishing are pleased to announce the digital launch of Hunter’s Moon Remastered for the Commodore 64. Hunter’s Moon is a strategic shoot’em up game originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, developed by Martin Walker with music composition provided by Matt Grey. The game received critical acclaim when reviewed by Zzap!64 and became one of the C64’s…
Marvin Hardy has unleashed a playable demo of Hellbound, a new title he is developing for the Commodore 64. Hellbound is a traditional single screen platform game that sees you take on the role of an angel who has been ordered to go on a mission in Hell, disguised as demons with heavenly powers, to recover lost innocent souls trapped…
Reset64 Magazine has compiled and uploaded a disk image containing all of the entries for it’s ‘Craptastic’ game development competition. Launched back in March of this year, the rules of the competition were simple: devs could create a game as bonkers or as brilliant as they liked, except that each entry must be no greater than 4 KB in size…
