Category: Retro Gaming
If you follow CSDb releases, you saw that yesterday three new games were released for the Commodore 64, with Halloween as the common theme. They are simple games, but they have a lot to offer in fun time playing them. Death Saw Challenge The first one is Death Saw Challenge from The New Dimension. Although set in a fixed screen,…
If you follow us on Twitter (or @CommodoreBlog. @RetroGamerNatn, @Al82_Retro), you might have seen some teaser images of the upcoming Commodore 64 game ‘Wild Wood’ and its astonishing graphics. If you, like us, want to follow its development closely and buy the game when it is released, now you have a single source of information via the website https://www.wildwoodgame.co.uk/. Wild…
Almost by accident, yesterday I came across Digger III: The Saint’s Ascension, a new game released for the CoCo3 with 512K RAM. Heavily inspired (clone?) on Lode Runner, Digger III is a platform game where you have to run across each level collecting gold and avoiding the enemies. After you collect all gold, a door will open, and you need…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Vince Weaver was already news here on ViTNO when he showed us the excellent Myst demake for the Apple II using double lores graphics. Now he has done again, releasing an impressive proof of concept of The Secret of Monkey Island running on the same Apple II computers. It all started when Vince decided to play the Secret of Monkey…
Mashdy Games has just released Pitkat is a new puzzle game for the Atari 2600. The game is available as a free download (link at the end). The game is based on Pitman for the Gameboy, which was based on a game created for the Sharp MZ-700. This Atari 2600 version was created by Marco Johannes, Dyfed Hitchings, and Sharemhel…
Retro Gamer Nation‘s Louie Dimovski has come again to help the Commodore 64 enthusiasts. His monthly round-up series gives us the best summary of game releases and upcoming games for the platform. The October 2020 video release is up where you can find more about games like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, Stoker, Alien Neoplasma, and many more. All that…
To promote NESmaker and grow its userbase, The New 8-bit Heroes held a game development competition during the summer. The 2020 Byte-Off was a month-long game development competition where NESmaker users create brand new demos for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Now that the competition is over, all the game demos are now available. You can play them directly in…
Survival Messenger – The Adventure, is a new illustrated text adventure game for the Commodore 64. The premise is that you find yourself lost in an island and you have to find your way out without dying – I assume that last part is goes without saying! The classic gameplay is enriched by a nice modern touch. You have at…
Independent retro development studio Green Boy Games release their 8-bit point and click adventure Where Is My Body? on Nintendo Game Boy today. If the name of the studio or the game seems familiar, that is because we featured in one of our Community Showcases back in July! In the game, a hand becomes conscious due to the experiment of Dr. Pentagon….
