Tag: c64
Imagine a game like Legend of Zelda, Gauntlet, Demon Stalkers, and Druid. That is Wizard Saga for the Commodore 64. A modern comparison would be The Binding of Isaac as well, with a very similar game play. The author, OnlineProfessor2010, has been releasing previews of the game since last September. This new version B, released on Nov 4th, contains several updates,…
There is another Kickstarter campaign. The project developer is asking for funding in order to build the smallest C64 Emulator. The hardware will have an open source software that will emulate the Commodore 64. The interesting part of this project is that the sound won’t be emulated, and the only way to get the sound working on this device is…
Your favorite Commodore Magazine has just released issue 89 with lots of articles, interviews and game reviews for the C64, VIC-20, Amiga and all the Commodore family of computers. The interviews are with Steve Reed from WWW.C64COPYPROTECTION.COM and CLOAN NEWSLETTERS, and Sean Peck, creator of Kipperterm 128. It reviews games like Meteor Defender for the Amiga and Abyssonaut for the for…
VIC-20 Denial user ‘litody’ has released a very nice version of the classic Minesweeper. He has develop it as the way to learn 6502 programming. The game is no different than any other minesweeper, which is really a good thing, as the idea is to remake a classic game. You can try it in your emulator or VIC-20. You can download…
Scott Hanselman hosts the HanselMinutes Podcast, and on the show #498 released today, he talks to Matthew Cannon about the musical revolution that happened the eighties and early 90s in video game soundtracks. Matthew worked at Ocean Software and composed music for games like Navy Seals, Batman: The Movie, Elf, and many more. Matthew worked on C64, Amiga, SNES, Megadrive,…
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
‘Claus’ user on CSDb has released today the game ‘Time of Silence’, a top view graphic adventure game for the Commodore 64. The game is superb, with a refreshing top view perspective. You walk the hero around, and you can interact with people and objects using the menu that shows up when you hit the joystick fire button close to…
The New Dimension has released yet another game for the Commodore 64: Blap ‘n Bash. In essence, the game is a bi-directional breakout. You control at the same time to bars, one at the top and one at the bottom, which move in opposite directions. As any breakout game, you have to destroy the blocks to move to another level and…
BITBITJam is a RetroGame event where people around the world create a game for old hardware in a weekend. This year’s BITBITJam was held from Fri 24 of July to Sun 26 of July, there were some fantastic entries and you can now download all the retro homebrew goodness over at http://bitbitjam.com/#entries. The winner for Best Confronted Kingdoms Game is Les Quizarables…
Nuclear Strike Force is a new game by The New Dimension, where the objective is pretty much a shoot’em up standard: Shoot the enemies, pick up the bombs for bonus points and survive as long as you can. The frantic background music gives away how hard is the game. I’ve tried for quite some time and I couldn’t get too…
