Tag: Videogames
Back in early April we reported about an upcoming C64 basketball game by Throwback Games titled Jam It. The game has been released today and you can purchase it for the humble sum of just $2.99 USD (or more). Jam It will be also soon be available on cartidge, disk & tape from Psytronik and RGCD (release date to be announced)Jam…
It had been 100 years since The Eradicator had been… well… eradicated, and the land of Faerie thought that it knew peace once more. But then the spirits began to creep across the nether of the realms. Driven mad by the peculiarity of the world that they found themselves in, they became hostile and violent. A group of fairies sought…
The first teaser for the English translation of Generation 64 is now launched by Bitmap Books. The Kickstarter campaign will open on the 17th of July. Generation 64 is a hardback coffee table book that tells the story of how the Commodore 64 influenced an entire generation of Swedish gamers in the 1980s. This generation of gamers, demo sceners and…
We have just been informed by Boucher Alexis (VingTrois Seize) about some Fantastic News! All you Amigans are gonna love this! We was fortunate to be blessed with the Kickstarter for new Commodore 64 replacement cases. Guess what? Now it’s the Amiga’s turn! Yes you heard correct!, in roughly 12 days, a new Kickstarter Project will be launched to make…
We have broke 7000 followers on Twitter! We created our Twitter account around the same time as Commodore is Awesome website, way back in April 2011. We thought this was definitely worth a mention and also a great opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU! to all our Loyal Followers on Twitter, Facebook, our websites and also our Facebook Retro…
We reported back in early June about the upcoming Bomb Jack remake by Retrofan for the Commodore 64. We have some fantastic (and rather late news that slipped the CiA net, doh) The remake now has a final name and will be now known as Bomb Jack DX, also there is now some awesome video footage to wet your appetite! …
Duel day is a remake of the Spectrum classic High Noon. The idea of this game is keeping loyal to the 1983 original, but bringing it playable to people with Android devices, whilst still keeping its ‘Retro’ look and feel. As it’s on the Android Platform, this will allow you to play the game on your phone, tablet and even…
Most of you that know me, will know that I am an avid Commodore fangirl, with much knowledge of everything Commodore. This might be why I decided to create the website Commodore is Awesome! However Commodore isn’t my only Forté and I have a great love for many other Retrogame formats including Amstrad, Acorn and the Sinclair Machines. One particular…
Peter McQuillan (soiaf) from World of Spectrum forums is relatively new to coding, he started learning to code in z80 assembly only earlier this year, reading Jonathan Cauldwell’s “How to write ZX Spectrum Games” and from reading articles in the development section of WOS. However within this short amount of time, he has come up with a fantastic new Tetris…
Early June we announced about ReSeT #20, which is a yearly Amstrad demo party, organized by Eliot / Benediction. The party is over and the results are in! Combined Demo/IntroSlideshow Paint ASCII CPC Intro ASCII 1K GraphicsBat-Moule by Beb & HicksCondense loves Pulpo Corrosivo by CeDBora-Bora by SiccaReSeT XX by CeDMammouth by Barjack & GrimLines Up Forms Fill Yeah!! (Amstrad…
