Category: New Game Announcement
Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called…
In this episode, we talk to Alex Brown, coder in the team that is creating the brawler “Metro Siege”, the first of its kind which works on a vanilla Amiga500 and includes multiplayer online crossplay (Amiga, web browser, Steam PC). We talk to him about the technical finesse and firsts the game is putting its toes in, while being a…
Have you ever tried gamebooks, AKA Choose Your Own Adventure books? You read a paragraph of text, then you get to choose what the main character should do next, and turn to different pages depending on what you choose. If all goes well, you reach a good ending. More likely, you don’t. A number of gamebooks have been published, most…
In our new episode we are talking about Club Koala by Play for Fun Games – an Al-powered 3D simulation game which lets players build their own islands and create a fully customized gaming club based on their designs and interests, without the need for complex programming skills. The public beta version of the game will be released later this…
It was only last year when long time retro gaming enthusiast Craig Hackney (aka IrataHack) released his debut ZX Spectrum gaming title, Castle Escape. Featuring a small and courageous knight called Wee, Castle Escape saw you take control of Wee as he tried to escape a haunted castle filled with deadly inhabitants while collecting gold coins along the way. Well…
Jonas Hultén made it possible to see one of my favourite Atari 2600 games on the VIC-20. In case you have been trapped in a mine all this time, in H.E.R.O., your mission is to rescue trapped miners from underground caves. There are 20 levels to play, and you will be considered a professional hero after these 20 levels. For…
A long awaited Japanese-style RPG was released for the Commodore 64 on 26 October 2021: Briley Witch Chronicles, by Sarah Jane Avory. It’s a huge game, taking up more than 600 KB. To play it on a C64 you’ll need a 1 MB EasyFlash cartridge. Of course you can run it on Vice, and the Vice-based The C64 Mini and…
Infocom released Zork 1, 2 and 3 in the early 80s. They were all made to be playable on the home computers of the day using a disk drive. As some of you are aware, they also created a cut-down version of Zork 1, called Mini-Zork 1, which was just small enough to fit into memory on a C64, so…
Carleton Handley is almost ready to release his new game Runn ‘n’ Gunn for the Commodore 64, a beautiful action platform set to be released on January 29th. Based on the released footage, the game shows action-packed levels and a beautiful dark environment. You play a super soldier made after fusing Willie Runn and Wally Gunn, two average soldiers. They…
Our own @CommodoreBlog on twitter tagged me about this game and I am glad I saw it! If you like Lemmings, you gonna love Planet Balls. In this new puzzle game for the Commodore 64, your job is to guide the balls to the exit of each level either adding or removing blocks. The game has even a back story:…
