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Exhibition 'Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games' until the end of May, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

[youtube sdKrnmyQREQ nolink] It is happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since last January the exhibit ‘Play the Game: 40 years of Video Games’, an interactive exhibition that explores more than 40 years of video games through a dynamic visual tour of consoles and games that marked an era. The exhibition can be visited for free between 14:00 to 20:30 from…

RGCD 2014 C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition Results

RGCD has released on CSDb a C64 Electronic Magazine with the results of its 2014 16KB Cartridge Game Development. The first three games are: p0 Snake Tiger Claw Voivod Attack They mentioned in the mag Introduction section that it was hard to judge the entries, due to the overall quality of the games being so high. There were 17 submissions…

The MagPI Magazine Reviews Three Retro Gaming Packages for Raspberry PI

The MagPI, now under the Raspberry PI Foundation umbrella, has just release its issue #31, and one of the featured articles is a review of three emulator packages for Raspberry PI: RetroPie, Raspicade and RiPlay. These are the article’s verdicts for each package: PiPlay – PiPlay offers a good collection of emulators that are easily configured to work with many games…

Commodore 64 version of 'The Sword of Fargoal' cracked by Hokuto Force

Hokuto Force has released yesterday a new cracked version of ‘The Sword of Fargoal’, a dungeon crawler created by Jeff McCord and released by Epyx in 1982. Sword of Fargoal is noteworthy for being one of the first microcomputer games to introduce elements later used by so-called roguelike games, such as dungeons that are randomly generated for each session of…

'The Sword of Fargoal' cracked by Hokuto Force

Hokuto Force has released yesterday a new cracked version of ‘The Sword of Fargoal’, a dungeon crawler created by Jeff McCord and released by Epyx in 1982. Sword of Fargoal is noteworthy for being one of the first microcomputer games to introduce elements later used by so-called roguelike games, such as dungeons that are randomly generated for each session of…

Living Computer Museum promotes first Movie Night

If you live in Seattle (US) area, you might be interested on going to the first Movie Night at the Living Computer Museum. The film is a documentary titled “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II” and is quite entertaining and informative. It will be taking place on the first Thursday of March, and just like evening…

Supercart 60-in-1 [Easyflash]

Released by: SAMRelease Date: 26 February 2015 Download: SUPERCART-Fixed.zipWebsite: CSDb

Pets vs Aliens Prologue – Colourful New Game for the ZX Spectrum

Using the author’s own description, “Pets vs Aliens is a rather experimental story-driven “lullaby” board game for the ZX Spectrum that was recently released on World of Spectrum forum. The storyline is narrated in rhymes following the style of a classic children’s book although combined with a more exciting sci-fi theme. That’s a somewhat weird combination for a computer game,…

Short film features an amazing CG Commodore 64

[vimeo 66599774 nolink] Sometimes we just want to watch something pretty, without a reason or lesson to be learned. That is the case here, with this video create by Brian Sørensen as his graduation project. The video is a full CG shortfilm set in a pseudo 1980s environment, where a nostalgic theme is emphasized through the display of old computer…

On this Video, Commodore 64 is the Star

[vimeo 66599774 nolink] Sometimes we just want to watch something pretty, without a reason or lesson to be learned. That is the case here, with this video create by Brian Sørensen as his graduation project. The video is a full CG shortfilm set in a pseudo 1980s environment, where a nostalgic theme is emphasized through the display of old computer…