commodore 16

When I was growing up, I had the luxury of having the best (cough) 8-bit computer, the wonderful Commodore Plus/4. No-one wrote games for the Plus/4 but they did wrote games for its less capable sister, the Commodore 16. One company that released a fair few C16 games was Uk-based Tynesoft...

Rajcsányi László (aka Lacoste) is continuing his quest to seemingly port every C16 and Plus/4 game to the Game Boy Color. The latest is Doug Turner's The Exploits of Fingers Malone - a platform game where you need to collect keys, open the safe and avoid the baddies. The game isn't an exact...

One day, my dad decided we were going to get a new computer. At this point we had a Commodore VIC-20, but it was getting a bit long in the tooth, and for some reason half the games weren’t working any more. So off we go to the shops. Would we be getting a Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum like my...

Commodore 16 and Plus/4 owners now have a version of Ultimate’s classic Atic Atac to call their own. Atic Atac was originally launched by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. In the game, you must search for parts of a key to escape a castle filled with various...

As you might guess from the spelling of colour in the title, I’m from the UK. And in the UK in the eighties only the rich kids had microcomputers with disk drives. The rest of us made-do with cassette tapes. And if you collected computer cassette tapes then there is no way you wouldn’t have...