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11.05.2025 - C64 game 'Space Invaders One Button' released
This particular version of the Space Invaders clone for C64 by LC-Games, which was recently released, is designed to be controlled exclusively via the joystick's fire button. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

11.05.2025 - Video: Wings of Fear V2
This video shows some footage of an overhauled version of 'Wings of Fear', a Shoot'em'up for Amiga which was recently in the making. What has changed: - Smaller planes but with shadow and more colours. - Background is now more correct from the perspective of the planes. - increased colours from 32 to 64 (not on the boss level, that is still unchanged.. ). - more moving clouds and vehicles on the ground. Jeep, tank and train.

10.05.2025 - Video: Gyruss Amiga port - very early footage
Early footage of WIP Amiga game port of Gyruss, the famous shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto,which was released by Konami in 1983. There are still lots of glitches but overall the game is running. The game is pretty complex to port as the arcade machine uses 2 processors and no source is available.

10.05.2025 - Video: Quasimodo's Halloween Horror (C64) Preview 2 with commentary
This is a quick follow-up on the first video. Basic collision and controls are in for Quasimodo.

09.05.2025 - C64 Quickload Episode #04 - Latest C64 news, and releases! - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
The C64 Quickload is your concise guide to the latest news and releases for your Commodore 64 delivered in a quick format magazine style presentation.

08.05.2025 - C64 game 'Eight Links' released - free for download
Eight Links is a Commodore 64 variant of 8 Links by Anton, a seemingly simple puzzle game where you have to put down tiles with links to their neighbors and create the longest possible chain of connected tiles for a greater score. In this game, however, the object is somewhat simpler: just find as many connections as possible for each tile on the same 4x4 grid. This small change affects scoring but the core ideas remain the same.

07.05.2025 - C64 Weekly #32 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

06.05.2025 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - Rock Star Goes Bizarre (C64) recovery
A very rare promo edition of Rock Star Ate My Hamster on the Commodore 64 has been recovered. This was released through The Sun newspaper, and has been missing for quite some time, though a ZX Spectrum version has been recovered a while back.

05.05.2025 - What is Game 31? Recreating Satoru Iwata's First Inspiration - video by '8-Bit Show And Tell'
Before Satoru Iwata became the President of Nintendo, before HAL Labs, even before his Commodore days while attending university, he found his love of computer games in a subway station in Sapporo, Japan. It was the mysterious "Game 31" which we know little about, but I've decided to attempt to recreate it on the Commodore 64 anyway. Learn a bit about Mr. Iwata's early life, as we look into a math "number-crunching" game that sparked a love of gaming in someone that went on to make a very large impact on Commodore, Nintendo, and the video game industry at large.

04.05.2025 - C64 game 'ROGUEish' released
ROGUEish is a rogue-like RPG for the C64 computer (either via emulation or on real Hardware). The objective is to see how high up you can climb the tower before you are killed. It was inspired by "Rogue 64" (a c64 game), "RogueCraft" (an Amiga game) and to some extent, Marvel Avengers Alliance (an online game that is now dead). You can get the preview as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer. To try before you buy, you can download a free 2-level demo before you purchase the full version.

04.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Doll Maker' - demo for download
The Doll Maker is a new adventure game, currently in development by Remanence Studio. The game requires at least 1 mb of chip ram and a harddrive. Kickstart 1.3 and up supported. You play 'Emo', that answers a strange beacon, originating from a wast and now uninhabited land. You must find the origin of the beacon and discover the dark secrets behind it.

04.05.2025 - Gameplay of New Amiga Games from April 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore Amiga released in April 2025, with lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

03.05.2025 - Amiga game 'BDTZ - Better Dead Than Zed' released
'BDTZ' is a zombie survival shooter game. Over 60 levels of adrenaline-filled tension. 30 days to survive the apocalypse. New intro, improved graphics, introduced female zombie figure, new sound effects, 4 different game locations each with its own set of graphics, gangs of thugs ready to kill you, minefields, military bases, an Easter egg, new mission objectives...all this is Better Dead Than Zed. Are you a survivor? You can get the preview as digital download for a fair price to support the developer.

03.05.2025 - Video: Quasimodo's Halloween Horror (C64) Preview 1 with commentary
This video is a very early preview of a new C64 platform game featuring my Quasimodo character. Expect all the usual Halloween related themes, ghosts, skeletons, zombies, bats etc. trying to stop Quasimodo at every opportunity they can. More updates to come.

03.05.2025 - Video: Echo Fighter WIP v0.004 - Amiga Game Development - A500 - Early test footage #5
More early test footage of a Shoot'em'up game that is in the making for Amiga OCS/ECS. New in this release: some line drawing using the blitter chip for a new frontend. The line drawing required a lot of optimizing and the spinning logo might need some more optimizing in the final version to get it running consistent on an A500.