The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…
The end of the SEUCK Game Competition 2015 has arrived, and the results are in. Presenting its winner (drumroll), Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller. Here is the final result: 1. Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller – 171 points 2. Gigablast by Alf Yngve – 158 points 3. T-UFO by Errazking – 157 points 4. Snatch McBlagger – 156 points 5. S-F-S by…
Retro Games Collector website has published a super detailed guide written by Graham Axten teaching how to build an Arcade stick for your Commodore 64. The project even includes a secondary button useful to play some of the cartridge games that were made for the doomed C64GS console. You can check the article and get started on your new DIY…
After Steve Jobs passing, the market was flooded of movies and books about Apple’s co-founder. The best known movie is ‘Jobs’ with Ashton Kutcher, but Steve Wozniak, who everyone would agree knew Jobs closely, doesn’t seem to like it. “I think that there were a lot of weaknesses about the ‘Jobs’ movie, the one with Ashton Kutcher, a lot of…
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge will be holding the ‘Arc-Aid: Cambridge’ event on Saturday 13th June, with the aim of bringing together members of the online arcade community to repair and restore some of the museum’s arcade machines. Engineers from across the country will gather to open arcade cabinets, extract circuit boards, solder, prod and probe until the…
The strangely titled ‘Lindwendture Project’ is a new Commodore 64 adventure work in progress by master coder Enthusi and graphics genius Oliver Lindau. I have been watching this game for some time now on the German Forum 64, and also on Oliver Lindau’s Facebook page where it was announced way back in February. To be honest I didn’t take much…
An interesting hack version of Super Mario Bros on the NES has been released. On this version Wario takes over instead of Mario, and the visuals are also following its new protagonist ‘style’. The patch is available to download in the link below but you will need a rom image of the original Super Bros rom, It is a bit…
Oceano is an Amstrad deep sea submarine maze game made in AGD by EgoTrip and he has also ported it over to the Spectrum too. Amy decided to explore the seas in search of 20 fabled power crystals that have long been lost in the ocean. However there are robotic fish guarding them, and acidic bubbles that can damage her…
I’ve just found this link posted on Apple II Enthusiasts Facebook group, where Christopher Phin writes about his passion to buy vintage computers (mostly Apple in his case). It is a very entertaining and light reading, and at least for me, it reflects very precisely what I feel about vintage computers. The author said his in his 30’s which explains…
As mentioned earlier here, 64bites.com is a website run by Michal Taszycki that will run weekly screencasts, teaching you budding programmers out there how to write intros, demos and games in 6502 machine language on your favourite breadbin, the Commodore 64. The website at the moment has some teaser lessons using BASIC, but it is now officially announced that the full…
