vic-20

Awesome VIC-20 racer, Super Monza Grand Prix has had a small update, so you can now change the difficulty of the game. Author, AJ Layden says: "Seeing as the game was proving to be a little tough for some players I have added an option to select the difficulty in the "race for position" mode...

Earlier this year when appearing on the news, it was noticed that Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health had a VIC-20 on his desk. We reached out to Mr Gwynne, not to ask about his ideas for health policies, but to chin-wag about old Commodore computers! Was the VIC-20 your first...

Fans of the game H.E.R.O are in for a treat, as versions of the game are being released or developed for Atari 7800 and VIC-20 machines. A.R.T.I for the Atari 7800 was developed by MuddyVision and a demo is available to download on the AtariAge forums. The developer says, "A.R.T.I. is my take...

A few years ago we did a round-up of 20 great Vic-20 Homebrew games. Well, in the last few years the humble Vic has seen a great number of new games. Many of these games will require memory expansions, if you are running on real hardware, but all should run fine on emulators such as VICE or...

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...

Hewco have launched Cheesy Trials for the expanded VIC-20 on itch.io. The aim of the game is to guide Echo the Mouse through a series of platform puzzles split across three experiments. "To beat a trial room collect a piece of cheese before the time runs out. You only have 5 seconds to do this...

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...

The Future Was 8-Bit have launched a range of cartridges for the Commodore VIC-20 and C64. The company are also providing a new service to amateur programmers where they will publish their games in cartridge form. Commodore 64 games Ms Rodmän Ms Rodmän is the follow up to last year’s Rodmän...

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...