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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.

02.05.2025 - Golden Years : Featuring Muse Software (1978-87 / Commodore 64) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
This 3rd episode of the series "Golden Years" dedicated to highlighting the short lived software companies of the early C64 gaming scene. This episode features the US company Muse Software.

01.05.2025 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - GTW64 April 2025 update
The fourth update of the year at GTW64 has yet more Commodore 64 goodness, and a bit more of a holiday bonanza with 14 new entries (including a stack of titles intended for the Commodore MAX). Also there are 20 entry updates that you can check out too (details of each update in the history notes).

01.05.2025 - C64 game preview 'Tusari 2' released
'Tusari 2' for the C64 is a WIP run and jump shooter and sequel to the multi screen platformer Tusari, which was released by Zzap64 in 1991. Now the 'The River' level has been released, being the first C64 game to use vertical parallax and horizontal parallax with variable speed while using simultaneous raster synchronised NMI and IRQ interrupts for the scroll and sprites. You can get the preview as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

30.04.2025 - Gameplay of New C64 Games from April 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in April 2025, with lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

29.04.2025 - C64 Weekly #31 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

28.04.2025 - C64 game 'Puzzle' released
Puzzle is a brand-new sliding puzzle game for the Commodore 64, released in .CRT cartridge format. Rearrange the pieces to complete 7 different puzzles, with up to 5 levels of increasing difficulty! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.