Spanning over 7 years in development, Super Mario Brothers for the Commodore 64 is finally available. This fan made port of the Nintendo Entertainment System is brought to us by Zeropaige who has stated in this log file that ‘ This is a Commodore 64 port of the 1985 game SUPER MARIO BROS. for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System….
We go hands-on with Fat Pug Studio’s pixelated shooter
A huge collection of Infocom’s Text Adventure games is now available in their source code form on Github. Thanks to Jason Scott efforts, 45 games are now at anyone’s reach to be dissected, including popular titles like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Zork, and Planetfall. The games were all written using ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) which will make hard…
With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced. If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On! This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of…
Feel the AMIGArama rage as we go on a wild Rampage, climbing towers around the city in this weeks arcade action packed show!
Coming as Commodore’s lingering death rattle was in its final throes, Wunderkind’s only release would be the run ’n’ gun platformer, Ruff ’n’ Tumble. With the highly regarded Renegade on publishing duties, Robin Levy, Jason Perkins and Jason Page’s cutesy yet violent delight would release at the tail end of 1994 and give Amiga owners one of their final hurrahs. …
The other day I saw on Amazon a new book for the Commodore 128 entitled “Vintage Commodore 128 Personal Computer Handbook: 2019 Survival Edition” that was released last March and immediately added it to my wishlist (yeah, I stopped buying books months before I will have time to read them :) ). Today I saw an announcement on Facebook from…
Cloud game streaming services seem to be all the rage these days. With the likes of Microsoft, Google, NVidia and Sony pushing the development of their respective cloud-based gaming platforms, it seems that we’re moving ever closer – for better or for worse – to the reality of gaming-as-a-service. While these corporate heavy-weights are focusing on modern, triple-A gaming, you…
Dan Wood and Ravi Abbott host the amazingly popular Retro Hour Podcast, as well as having awesome YouTube channels of their own. AJ and Joerg talk to them about how they do it, keeping retro fresh, and we trade some fun podcasting stories. (Interview starts at 24:50) https://scene.world/retrohour
UPDATE: April 9th – The price is now £1, which is still a good price for what it is. Just received my TPUG newsletter and was glad to see another great news. After the “The story of Commodore 64 in Pixels” giveaway we posted last month, Fusion Retro Books is back, now selling for £1 (USD 1.30) the Amiga counterpart:…
