As I like to say, we are living another golden era for the retro computing and gaming enthusiasts, and one of the things that prove that to be true is the incredible number of events happening every year across the Globe. To keep track of that many events, many initiatives are in place on Facebook and some of the most…
Kick-Off II is one of the most difficult football (or soccer, if you’re NTSC) games to master. Oliver Stender and Frank Fuhrmann have done just that, though, and their skill has lead to them being two of the highest ranked players to take part in the Kick-Off II World Cup — championships that are still being held today. AJ and…
We announced a while ago that Bitnamic Software has recently (re)released a ZX-81 game called Treasure Quest (with the original title “Em busca dos tesouros” em Portuguese which would translate to “In the search of the treasures”). The game was developed by Tadeu Curinga da Silva when he was 16 years old. The new version is an update from the…
Joe Blob is a small game created by Ronan McEvoy in 1989 that was never officially released until now. Felipe Veiga, Pedro Pimenta, Mario Viegas, and Andre Leao, all members of the Espectroteam and also Planeta Sinclair website got together and with the help of Andy Green, have created a remastered version of Joe Blob to be included in Woot!…
When reflecting upon the state of the new gaming scene for 8-bit home computers, we have our fair share of platformers, shooters and puzzle games but fighting / beat’em up games have been far and few between. Well Bitmap Soft, along with Puddle Soft, want to change all this with their announcement of the Beat’em Up Dev Comp 2020 for…
This is been around for a couple of days on Facebook and Twitter, so you all might have heard of the sad news of the passing of Chuck Peddle, the electrical engineer that was the main designer of the ubiquitous 6502 CPU and the Commodore PET, among other great inventions and products that helped to shape the computer industry. The…
The hottest retro gaming related product for the 2019 Christmas period, THEC64 has finally arrived with the hope that it can satisfy the C64 enthusiasts insatiable need to provide a modern day retro computing solution without sacrificing too much of what made the Commodore 64 great. The successor to the 2018 released THEC64 Mini, THEC64 is a C64/VIC20 emulator presented…
Last year’s largest popular C64 game vote competition is back as the 2nd annual C64 Gamers’ Choice poll is now open. The C64 Gamers’ Choice Award 2019 is held by Retro Gamer Nation (RGN) and sponsored by Rhayader Computers (your one stop shop for retro game themed mouse mats, mugs and other retro related material all made to a high…
It’s nearly Christmas, so we thought what better way to celebrate the end of 2019 than with a cool competition! Yes that right, we are holding a competition with Future was 8bit to win a C64 SD2IEC and a Fast cart! The competition is being held on our second Twitter account @CommodoreBlog. To grab a chance of winning, please read…
Having just started shipping the full size THEC64 to backers this week, those with the mini variant have been asking as to whether the smaller emulator will be receiving some of the firmware enhancements found on the big brother. Well, Mini owners can rejoice as Retro Games Limited have pushed out a new firmware update for both the full size…
