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30.10.2025 - Plus/4 game 'Geography Europe' released - free for download
In 'Geography Europe', a new Plus/4 game written completely in machine language, you fly a helicopter over a map of Europe and have to find cities before the timer runs out. The game is similar to an older Commodore 64 game by Radarsoft.

30.10.2025 - WIP Amiga game 'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' - Demo 2.0 released
'Creeping Me Out: Hex Night' is an WIP action platformer in the vein of Turrican & Castlevania, made in Scorpion Engine. Just in time for Halloween, here's another demo, that you can get as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer. It's a shorter demo than the first one but still has a good few levels - much more challenging ones this time though! Can Francis navigate the Swamps? Many obstacles await him, from the ghosts of fallen travelers to angry frog-men, and molluscs, and more assorted frog-related problems...

30.10.2025 - New C64 Games from October 2025 - video by 'Retro Gaming Dino'
Presentation of new games for the Commodore 64 released in October 2025, with gameplay footage, lots of information about the games and download links in the video description.

29.10.2025 - New 'Green Beret' port for C16 released - free for download
After the disastrous version of Green Beret for C16 from 1986, there is now a brand new port of the famous 1985 run and gun /hack and slash arcade game developed and published by Konami. It features: All four full-length arcade maps, via multi-load, smooth real-time scrolling, detailed multi-colour graphics, using more of the machine's 121 colours, soft sprite masking so there aren't big blue blocks around characters, flame thrower, rocket launcher and grenades, all ground enemies (including kickboxer, dogs, grenadiers, cannons) and Theme music.

28.10.2025 - Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga Accelerator Battery Replacement - video by 'Jan Beta'
Jan is replacing the rechargeable lithium cell on my Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga 1200 accelerator card.

28.10.2025 - Amiga game 'Dylan the Spaceman - Demo version released
'Dylan the Spaceman' is a standard dizzy adventure type game for Amiga, where you collect items and share with characters to complete tasks, what allows you to explore new areas or get new items. The game was been made using the Reality game creative software with the adventure skeleton disk, but development is currently on hold.

27.10.2025 - Video: Escape From PETSCII Castle - A First-Person Shooter for Commodore C64 - Preview 3
Preview (v0.75) of the upcoming first-person shooter Commodore 64 game - Escape From PETSCII Castle. An 8-bit ray casting engine with walls, doors, hidden passages, weapons, ammo, keys and gold. Multiple levels of mayhem! Blocky enemies are now active. Next steps include improved enemies, better sound and more levels.

27.10.2025 - C64 Weekly #53 (Commodore 64 Scene Updates) - video by 'BastichB 64K'
Weekly updates from the Commodore 64 Scene Including new music, demos and games. Links to all shown content in the video description.

24.10.2025 - C64 game 'Dr. Hell Invasion' released
'Dr. Hell Invasion' is an arcade action game for C64, where you must control Koji Kabuto as the Photonic Laboratory is invaded by Dr. Hell and his henchmen: Baron Ashura, the Headless Count, and their troops of Tetsukamen and Iron Masks. You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.

24.10.2025 - THEA1200 - Announcement
The Legendary ’90s Amiga Home Computer is Back. Available for Pre-order 10 November 2025 under https://retrogames.biz/links/thea1200. Step into a time when floppy disks ruled, pixels popped and imagination had no limits. THEA1200 brings back the spirit of the early ’90s as an astonishingly accurate, full-sized recreation of one of the most loved home computers of its era, beautifully reimagined with HDMI and USB connectivity for a modern age. Features: a full size working keyboard, 25 classic carousel games, four save-slots per game, play the games you own via USB-stick, integrated workbench desktop, multi-region HDMI video and classic mouse and game controller.

24.10.2025 - Video: Hyper Runner Limited Playthrough
Hyper Runner is a futuristic Outrun-style game for the Amiga with AGA chipsets, which is in the making for quite a while. This video shows a demo of Hyper Runner, playing through the first two stages and almost finishing the third.

23.10.2025 - Amiga game 'Freak Out' released as Boxed Version
The classic Breakout game is back - with a twist! Clear all blocks across 100 levels solo or in two-player co-op mode, and don’t freak out by the various enemies. Explore the old factory and uncover its dark secret! Spend your hard-earned points between levels in the shop to unlock helpful bonuses. And if you still want more, use the convenient and intuitive Construction Set to create your own levels. For CDTV, CD³², and OCS/ECS Amigas with Kickstart 1.3 or higher - No AGA needed! The game comes on Compact Disc (compatible with CDTV, CD³², and Amigas with CD drive), inclduding a 20-page manual in Englisch and German, a A3 poster, 1 “Freak-Out” sticker and 2 glow-in-the-dark bouncy balls.

23.10.2025 - C64 game 'HipoFruta' released
'HipoFruta' is a platform game for C64 in which you play as a friendly hippopotamus and try to overcome all kinds of obstacles. Hipofruta features 20 levels, each filled with colorful jungle environments and dangerous enemies, extra life hearts, levers to open doors, and much more for our grape-eating hero. You can get the game as digital download for little money (name your own price) to support the developer.

23.10.2025 - 'Sperrbildschirm' - game for 8-bit Commodore machines released as free download
'Sperrbildschirm' is a puzzle game for Commodore PET, C64, C128, and Plus4 as well as C16.. Can you crack the code? A strange new machine has arrived. Its glowing screen stays hidden behind mysterious barriers: shifting patterns, secret numbers, and even phantom fingerprints. Only the sharpest minds will discover how to break through.

23.10.2025 - C64 game 'The Last Pumpkin' released
'The Last Pumpkin' is a little action game with breakout elements. After Santa failed to save the last snowball the world went into extreme drought and now the following fall only one pumpkin remains.....the last pumpkin! You can get the game as digital download for a bargain (name your own price) to support the developer.