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02.06.2025 - C64 game 'TantooMan' released
'TantooMan' is a logic puzzle game where you have to trace your way through different maces with rising difficulties while facing a tight speed limit. You can get it as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Amiga game 'AmiSeaFox' - demo version released
AmiSeaFox is an explosive tribute to the classic SeaFox! Dive into this reimagined version for the Amiga, where your mission is clear: destroy the entire enemy fleet before you run out of torpedoes or fuel. Runs on an Amiga 500 with 512 KB RAM expansion, though a stock Amiga 1200 is recommended for optimal performance. You can get the demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

01.06.2025 - Tyrian's Tower (Commodore 64) Review - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Review of Icon 64's latest C64 release "Tyrian's Tower".

31.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Farmiga' - rewritten alpha tech demo released
Farmiga is a farm simulator game that has been worked on in 2022. Now the game got written from scratch. It is optimized for better, smoother performance and has lower requirements than that version. You can get a demo version as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

31.05.2025 - Your Philips Commodore 1084 monitor might have a serious flaw (and it has twins!?) - video by 'Adrian's Digital Basement'
Philips made one of the Commodore 1084 variants for Commodore and unfortunately many of these monitors contain a flaw that can make them unusable. They also sold variants of the 1084 under their own brand, two of which Adrian owns. Lets dig in and investigate these monitors.

31.05.2025 - C64 Weekly #35 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Links to all shown games, demos and music in the video description.

31.05.2025 - Video: Wardner (V0.4A) - Amiga [AGA] (WIP 31st May 2025)
This video shows the current progress for level 2 of Toaplan's Wardner port to the Amiga. Most of the elements of level 2 are finally implemented for this build. By the end of June the developer hopes to have the final Alpha demo finished, with level 1 and 2 available to play with score system, powerups, shop, sfx and music complete.

30.05.2025 - Gameplay of New C64 Games from May 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in May 2025, with lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

29.05.2025 - C64 game 'Slither Pro' released
'Slither Pro' is a Centipede-style game, originally created as a bonus level page but now released as own game. You can get it as digital download for a fair price (name your own price) to support the developer.

29.05.2025 - Tyrian's Tower (Commodore 64) - New Crystals Castle clone - video by 'RetroGamerNation'
Video game showcase of Tyrian's Tower for the Commodore 64 (C64).

28.05.2025 - C64 game 'Tyrian's Towers' released
'Tyrian's Towers' is a brand new C64 release in the style of Crystal Castles, an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. Help Tyrian recover Queen Mumph's lost eggs in this fantastic game featuring 50 amazing isometric screens. You can get it as digital download for little money to support the developer. There is also a physical edition of the game available on cartridge, disk & tape exclusively from the Psytronik Software Online Store.

27.05.2025 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) - GTW64 May 2025 update
The fifth update of the year has a number of new entries added, including a game that was once submitted to Zzap and just disappeared, beginnings of a Pacman game that never was intended for Mastertronic, and Elite’s strange Commando-themed game that would eventually be renamed to Duet. GTW64 has also some updates to existing entries (details of each update in the history notes).

26.05.2025 - Commodore 128 - Part 1 - What is it? And why is it 'Not Working'? - video from 'The Retro Shack'
Commodore Fix-It Chronicles Part 2 - Commodore 128 - Part 1. What is it? And can we get it 'working' again?

25.05.2025 - Building my Latest Crazy Invention! - video by 'RobSmithDev'
We have already seen Rob's crazy floppy disk cleaning machine, and even his disk backup machine, but in this video he wants to build something new... This time, he is going to attempt to build a physical game, that in the end will be controlled by an Amiga.

25.05.2025 - Amiga game 'Gemdalus' released
Gemdalus is an immediately accessible arcade game which challenges the player to pick up all the gems scattered about procedurally-generated mazes. Gemdalus has been written in AMOS Professional 2.00 and M68k assembly and requires Amiga computer with AGA chipset, 1.6 MB of CHIP RAM, 320 kB of other RAM. You can get the game as digital download for a fair price and support the developer.