commodore 64

It's not often you get homebrew for the Memotech MTX or the Microbee. Nor the Sord M5 or SpectraVision SV 318. Well now a new puzzle game reaches some normally un-loved platforms, as well as some more common ones too. Vexed is a puzzle game where you must match the blocks to remove them from...

Sarah Jane Avory has released Zeta Wing 2 – the sequel to the original game, which was released on the C64 back in 2020. Not that you need a story – you can just load the game and blast away! – but should you need it, "The strange mutant creatures have returned! Only this time they are tougher...

Plants vs Zombies is a tower defence game that was originally launched by Popcap in 2009. The game made its way to a variety of platforms such as Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, iOS and Android, and Popcap was eventually acquired by EA. Once platform it didn't launch on was the Commodore 64. Well...

Blaze Entertainment have announced two new cartridges for their Evercade platform: Toaplan Arcade 2, and TheC64 Collection 2. Both cartridges are due to launch in April, with pre-orders open later this month. Toaplan Arcade 2 Fire Shark Shoot 'em up One of Toaplan's most notoriously...

Popular Commodore 64 website, Lemon64, has been relaunched in celebration of 25 years online. The website has been updated to work better on mobile, while still retaining that classic Lemon-look. The website was launched in 1998 by Kim Lemon and has become one of the world's most popular C64...

Launched over the weekend, was Knights & Slimes, a new single-screen platform game for the Commodore 64. The game was coded by Monte Boyd, who previously brought us the C64 game, Monster Catcher. You can choose from eight different knight characters to play, and the aim is to clear the kingdom...

We've updated our mega list of Antstream games, with the latest games added to the retro-game streaming service. The new games included Loaded - the first PlayStation game added to Antstream. The line-up of newly added games include: Amiga Fire & Forget II Amstrad CPC Cybernoid II: The...

Vincenzo Mainolfi is about to launch the latest issue of Freeze64 to subscribers. The upcoming issue 55 has a cover feature on Firebird Software’s C64 conversion of Taito / Toaplan's Flying Shark. As well as the Flying Shark feature, the mag also features Rogue64 and Creatures. Full details are...

The team behind the impressive Commodore 64 game, Sam's Journey, is making a port for the NES. The game was originally launched in 2017 by Knights of Bytes, and published as a physical edition by Protovision. In the scrolling platformer, you play as Sam who finds himself on an unexpected...

Reset64 have released a compliation of all of the games entered into their annual Craptastic C64 competition. Each of the games entered need to be less than 4K in size. Reset64 say: It certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny...

From the same people who gave us the awesome Plus/4 platformer, Pets Rescue, comes a new adventure / RPG for the Plus/4 and C64. Lykia is an epic quest for the C64 and expanded C16 + Plus/4 that spans 4 disk-sides! The beautifully presented adventure features lots of characters to interact with...

Evercade have launched a new line of cartridges for home computer games, the first of which is a collection of games from the Commodore 64. The new collection, which is released in conjunction with Retro Games Ltd, will launch in October Games in TheC64 Collection 1 include: Summer Games...

When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, NES) and now boasts over 1,300 games. It can...

Shahid Kamal Ahmad is working on a follow-up to his classic 8-bit game, Chimera. The original game was developed on a ZX Spectrum and ported to the C64, Atari 8-bit, Amstrad CPC – and for some reason*, the Watara Supervision. In the original game you must explore a spaceship, which is on target...

Here's a brief run down of recent ports, home-brew and indie games from the last few weeks. Check out the video at the end, and if you've made a game for a retro machine that you'd like us to cover please let us know :) Beethoven's Revenge (ZX Spectrum) Check out our news article here...

You may have come across Wordle - a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted in yellow. If the...

Sarah Jane Avory has launched her long awaited JRPG-style game for the Commodore 64: Briley Witch Chronicles. The game is based on the novels of the same name by Avory. “When Briley Forester is torn from her world and dumped into the backward village of Maepole, she discovers that being a witch...

Nixy the Glade Sprite is a new C64 arcade-adventure platform game, which has been ported from the ZX Spectrum version launched in 2018. Nixy is a glade sprite charged with looking after the Gaia stone. The Gaia stone is the heart of the Glade and gives life to the plants and flowers. But...

Here are three upcoming books that may be of interest to retro gamers – two of them are being funded by crowdfunding, so take action if they interest you. Shareware Heroes Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the...