hayesmaker64 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

We’ve played Fix It Felix Jr. for the C64 and it’s Smashing!

On April 14, 2020April 15, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Anotonio Savona announced today that he is putting the finishing touches to the brand new C64 version of "Fix It Felix Jr". This is a 4th unofficial port of the arcade game which was inspired by the 2012 Disney motion picture: Wreck-it-Ralph. Other ports have been made for the SEGA […]

2019 C64 Yearly Roundup and GOTY Nominees

On December 31, 2019January 1, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Hello everyone and welcome to my 2019 C64 roundup. We’ll take a look at some of my highlights for the year, some of Neil’s picks of the year, announce the Indie Retro News GOTY nominees, and as we’re about to change decades, we’ll also pick our favourite C64 game of […]

Bubble Bobble (C64) – Essential "continue play fix" released

On September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

One of the most played games of all time. Bubble Bobble has infuriated and thrilled us in equal measure on the C64 since its release around this time of the year 1987. Its appeal captures all age groups, and the fun is doubled with a brother, sister or friend to […]

Chopper Command (C64) – Final version will be released tonight

On August 21, 2019August 22, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Indie Retro News have been given the heads up that Chopper Command is currently in the process of being released, and will be available to download this evening. Final bug testing was completed this week after we helped Beta test the game live on Twitch. It was streamed on my […]

Watch Chopper Command (C64) Gameplay First – Live!

On August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

I’m Really pleased to announce that we’ve been given access to play test the BETA version of the brand new C64 Chopper Command port from Antonio Savona and Steven Day. Antonio reported yesterday that the game was feature complete, with just SFX and difficulty fine tuning left to do. With […]

Chopper Command (C64) – Exclusive WIP screenshots from Antonio Savona

On August 1, 2019August 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Chopper Command is an Atari 2600 exclusive title published by Activision and released in June 1982, programmed by Bob Whitehead. C64 fans can look forward to their own port currently being developed by Antonio Savona (P0 Snake, Planet Golf, L’abbaye des Morts) and graphics by Steven Day, who did loading […]

Minit is coming to C64 – That Awesome Thalamus reveal in full.

On June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

We’ve had some pretty cool announcements for the C64 in recent years.. But Thalamus’ reveal last week that Devolver Digital’s “Minit” is being ported to the humble 8 bit machine as well as the soon to be released Spectrum Next could well be the most exciting news since the end […]

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 […]

Parasol Stars C64 is in development and it looks fantastic!

On May 11, 2019May 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

One of C64s most heart breaking stories – a fully completed and faithful Commodore 64 port of Parasol stars was lost forever when the developer – Colin Porch’s wife destroyed all his disks in an argument. The story was the subject of an infamous cover up, reported by Ocean and […]

Cosmic Force – Successfully funded C64 Kickstarter has 3 days left!

On April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

A brand new C64 game will be produced by Steven Fletcher and Wavem Studios. After their incredible journey talking to devs, engineers and artists from Commodore’s history in the immensely enjoyable documentary: The Commodore Story (2017), Steven has created another successful Kickstarter campaign for Cosmic Force. A brand new C64 […]

The Age of Heroes – A full C64 review by Hayesmaker of Psystronik’s latest release!

On April 8, 2019April 9, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

An evil wraith has appeared and is sending its legion of the damned across the frozen wastes, mountains and sacred temples, and only you can stop them. As descendants of the warriors of light, you must travel to the East and end the wraith and his legions for good. The […]

Cracktro Tuesday #1 – Exploring the very latest releases from the C64 Scene

On March 14, 2019March 15, 2019 By Neil G

Welcome to a new series of articles where I pluck a selection of C64 programs from Commodore Scene Database (CSDB), play them live on my Twitch stream on real C64 hardware, and write up the highlights here on Indie Retro News. Whether it’s artwork, demos, music, classic games revisited in […]

Thalamus Lunark announcement – C64 and Spectrum Next?

On February 16, 2019February 17, 2019 By Neil G

Legendary C64 publishing house Thalamus have announced that they will be porting Lunark to the C64 and Spectrum Next, if the Nintendo Switch and PC/Mac versions are successfully backed on Kickstarter. Lunark is a great looking cinematic platform game currently in development by Johan Vinet of Canari Games. It’s heavily […]

C64 GOTY Winner Announcement!

On January 11, 2019January 12, 2019 By Neil G

2018 was such a great year for C64, and I’m sure it’ll keep getting better in 2019. Recently we published a fab list of game releases both physical and download games, and the list is crammed full of awesome games. In the article I published my list of nominees for […]

L’abbaye Des Morts – Eagerly awaited C64 port will be released January 2019!

On January 3, 2019January 4, 2019 By Neil G

Some time back we announced the release of L’Abbaye des Morts; a great retro platformer in a ZX Spectrum style that was originally developed by Locomalito who is no stranger to developing fantastic games such as Maldita Castilla and Hydorah. Well you’ll be pleased to know that same game which […]

The year of the C64 – A 2018 Roundup and GOTY Nominees!

On December 28, 2018December 29, 2018 By Neil G

As another super year for the C64 draws to a close, I take another look at the release highlights of the year, starting with all the games which had Physical versions ship this year, then followed by all the digital download releases, including the ones which will ship next year, […]

High Noon – Early C64 Western with extras from Hokuto Force

On November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 By Neil G

Back in 2015 when I joined Indie Retro News, there weren’t so many brand new C64 games being released, so we used to fill our blog with news from the various cracking groups. I particularly liked Hokuto Force’s releases because they focused on re-releases of those lesser known titles that […]

L’Abbaye des Morts 64 – Exclusive first review

On November 18, 2018November 19, 2018 By Neil G

L’Abbaye des Morts (The Abbey of the Dead) 64, is the latest game from Antonio Savona and Double Sided Games. It’s actually a port of a ZX spectrum inspired mini game, written by Locamolito and released as freeware for Windows in 2010, It’s been ported to Linux, Mac OSX, Nintendo […]

Scuttlebutt – Behind Enema Lines: New game from Karl Hörnell for C64

On September 21, 2018September 22, 2018 By Neil G

Veteran Game developer and Cartoonist Karl Hörnell has ported his free to download ZX Spectrum game: Scuttlebutt, to the C64. Karl created a number of games for Interceptor Software while still at school. These included Clean Up Time, Velocipede, Fruity, Ronald Rubberduck and Toad Force. These were all pretty much […]