c64 – Page 3 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Wolfling Enhanced – RGCD announces Nesdev game will be coming to the Amiga, C64 & PC/Linux/MacOS!

On June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In 2017 Lazycow released an early version of a high quality platforming game for the NES as an entry for the 2017 Nesdev competition. It gained favourable feedback during that time with one such member noting the game had nice level design, felt non linear and incredibly moody with rather […]

Looter – Early preview of a fabulous looking C64 game by Marvin Hardy

On June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The C64 gets a mention this afternoon as we’ve just come across a new video from Saberman that shows the very latest work in progress footage of a C64 game called ‘ Looter ‘; which is a new game from Marvin Hardy that was originally called Hellbound. This footage gives us […]

Wolfling – Nesdev game appears on the Amiga as a scrolling test

On June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Flufy Cleaning Co. – A Procedurally Generated Jet Set Willy Clone for Windows

On June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Just released from Albatross Wirehead is a C64 inspired game called Flufy Cleaning Co., an homage the classic Jet Set Willy! Available now for Name Your Own Price at itch.io. Become an employee of Flufy Co’s latest subsidiary, Flufy Cleaning Co! Flufy Cleaning Co. strives to provide the highest quality […]

Cruiser X-79 – Migrating to another base

On June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

2nd-3rd June 2019 Sunday, I came home and was wondering what I should do. I decided on doing some more work on Cruiser-X 79. I decided to carefully look at the code, and copy/paste it it from CBMPRGStudio to Endurion’s C64Studio. I created a new C64Studio project and called it […]

King’s Valley – Konami’s platformer is coming to the C64 via Psytronik Software

On June 3, 2019June 4, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Thanks to a heads up via Hársfalvi Gábor in the Commodore 64/128 group, we’ve been told ‘ King’s Valley ‘; which is a port of the MSX version first released in 1985, and also as an apperance via MS-DOS in the 80’s and as an unofficial port in 2009 on the ZX […]

MiniMIKE – Early C64 game preview feels more like a WIP indie title

On May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

While some of you are considering pledging for the Parallaxian Kickstarter but would still rather play a new C64 game right now, then you might be interested to know that Paul Nicholls has made available an early preview of his work in progress game ‘ MiniMIKE ‘; a new game that […]

Parallaxian – A C64 game Kickstarter that aims to push the machine to its limits!

On May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The C64 is certainly in high spirits this month, with fabulous games mentioned such as Robots Rumble, Doc Cosmos 2, Winterdane, and Parasol Stars C64 to name but some of the games highlighted on IRN. But one such game we haven’t yet mentioned until now and is aiming for a […]

Robots Rumble – A great puzzle game for the Commodore 64 has been released

On May 28, 2019May 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Another day and yet again another great game has appeared, as we’ve recently been contacted by Hokuto Force, that Digital Monastery has now released a puzzle platformer called ‘ Robots Rumble ‘. Now if you’ve heard of this game before, that’s because it was first released by Miguetelo Art for […]

Doc Cosmos 2 Adventures in Time – C64 Sequel to the RGCD 16k competition entry Doc Cosmos teased

On May 28, 2019May 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

In March of this year shallan64 released a fantastic game for the C64 community which not only featured top quality gameplay as a C64 RGCD 16K entry, but when a powerful time travelling alien device was activated, it switched to two different graphical styles depending on the timeline being used to […]

Vortex – An enjoyable SEUCK C64 game by Pinov Vox

On May 27, 2019May 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Trawling through the latest SEUCK Compo 2019 enteries looking for a decent C64 game to play, and one that stood out in the crowd was Pinov Vox’s new C64 Shoot em up ‘ Vortex ‘. This game as the 9th entry in the competition which is a vertical scrolling shooter, is a […]

Winterdane – Double Sided Games announces a new C64 Rogue Dungeon Crawler!

On May 23, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Double Sided Games has been the highlight of the retro community these last few months, as not only did they announce that Black Dawn Rebirth was coming to the Amiga, but they also announced that as of the 1st of July they will be releasing Realms of Quest V for the […]

Goldrake – C64 Shoot em up based on a 1970’s anime/cartoon

On May 20, 2019May 21, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The C64 scene hasn’t finished with us yet, as moments ago we were contacted by Saberman, that the C64 game based on the 1970’s Manga UFO Robo Grendizer called ‘ Goldrake ‘, has recently been released by The Hokuto Force. This game classed as a shoot em up and developed […]

RGCD officially killing it with 4 new C64 cartridges announced!

On May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Not happy with continually supporting the Commodore 64 game dev scene with the phenomenal 16KB Cart compo – James Monkman of RGCD announced 4 brand new cartridges. Following 2 official announcements for Retaliate DX and Grid Pix on the RGCD blog page, I spoke to James, who confirmed that the next C64 […]

Nono Pixie – Nonogram Puzzle Game for the Commodore 64

On May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The last day of the week and it’s time to rejoice Friday retro heads, as we’ve just been told by a follower on our twitter feed, that Space Moguls has released the final version of a new C64 game called ‘ Nono Pixie ‘. Now if you like puzzle games, […]

Zzap! 64 Annual 2020 a Kickstarter success, also new The Lord of Dragonspire footage!

On May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Fabulous news if you’ve supported the latest Zzap! 64 Annual 2020 Kickstarter as not only is it a kickstarter success, but we’ve also been told one of the perks as The Lord of Dragonspire, has also received new footage as a short glimpse of this upcoming game. Yes indeed if […]

Pagoda Warrior II – A brand new C64 game featuring music by Richard Bayliss!

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The C64 news just keeps on coming, as earlier today we were informed by the developer Stefano "Mc.Valdemar" Canali, that he had released a new C64 game called ‘ Pagoda Warrior II ‘; a brand new game featuring music by Richard Bayliss that has been entered in the C64 SEUCK Competition […]

Trzask Tensorskiego 64 – A rotating C64 Boulder Dash?

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve certainly featured the 1984 Boulder Dash game a lot these last few months, what with the release of Boulder Dash Junior II The Final Dig and Boulder Dash Senior to name but a few. But what if you could play a Boulder Dash style game, but instead of the game […]

SlipStar – Another awesome looking C64 Shoot em up in dev by Sarah Jane Avory

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

As many of you know by now, the ex-SEGA game developer and author: Sarah Jane Avory is not only working on a fabulous RPG for the C64 called ‘ Briley Witch Chronicles ‘, but has also released a wicked Shoot em up called ‘ Neutron ‘; which many people have […]

Zzap’s back…Again – Zzap! 64 Annual 2020 announced!

On May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

It wasn’t long ago now that we were banging on about Zzap! 64 Annual 2019 ; a glorious book of goodness from Chris Wilkins as a revival of the classic Zzap magazine, wrapped up in the guise of an awesome looking hardback. Well it looks as if the C64 is about […]