VIC 20 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

First update of 2020

On February 2, 2020February 3, 2020 By fgasking

In hoping to bring back more regular updates now the book nears conclusion and publication in a few months, here is the first GTW update of 2020, including a new Vic 20 section. This update includes a bunch of new … Continue reading →

Vic Nibbler – A new game for the Commodore Vic 20!

On August 15, 2019August 16, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

If you don’t have a C64, but a Vic20 with a 3K RAM expansion. Then you might be interested to know, that this week Hewco64 released the arcade maze game ‘ Vic Nibbler ‘ for the Commodore Vic 20. This game available to download for free, is a remake of […]

Realms of Quest V – An eye opening RPG for the VIC-20 is now available

On July 1, 2019July 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Way back in 2014 developer Ghislain de Blois released Realms of Quest IV for the Commodore VIC-20 through the publisher Psytronik. It was another game in the series as a fine tribute to classic style turn based, party based dungeon crawlers of the 1980‘s, with graphics reminiscent of the early […]

Robots Rumble – A great puzzle game now for the cplus/4 and VIC-20

On May 31, 2019June 1, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

It was only just the other day that we mentioned that a new game was released for the C64 by Digital Monastery called ‘ Robots Rumble ‘; a game that was originally developed by Miguetelo Art for the ZX Spectrum 48k and 128k in September of last year, as an […]

Realms of Quest V – An eye opening RPG for the VIC-20 coming July 1st, 2019

On May 8, 2019May 9, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Robots Rumble – A puzzle game for the VIC-20 and CPlus/4 is also coming!

On April 2, 2019April 3, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

The CPlus/4 and VIC-20 also look to be getting a very decent puzzle game at some point soon, as we’ve recently been contacted by Hokuto Force, that Digital Monastery will be releasing a puzzle platformer called ‘ Robots Rumble ‘. Now if you’ve heard of this game before, that’s because […]

Realms of Quest V – An eye opening RPG for the VIC-20 gets a new trailer

On March 7, 2019March 8, 2019 By Neil G

Tenebra Macabre – A rather special C64/VIC 20 game by Digital Monastery is here!

On February 27, 2019February 28, 2019 By Neil G

If you’re looking for something awesome to play through this week, then you’ll pleased to know Digital Monastery’s has finally released their C64 game ‘ Tenebra Macabre ‘. This game created for the RGCD’s C64 16KB Cartridge GameDev Compo 2019, is a game that doesn’t just feature wickedly horror filled […]

Rodman Special Edition – It’s kinda like Pac-Man but it blows things up!

On December 23, 2018December 24, 2018 By Neil G

If you’re not into those festive games but still want to buy a damn fine game for Christmas then look no further than Misfit’s ‘ Rodman ‘, a super duper Pac-Man style game with some very cool yet unique differences. This game released in multi-format for the VIC-20,C64,C16,ZX Spectrum,Atari 8bit,Oric,MSX and […]

Voodoo Castle (Adventure International game, Vic 20, 1979)

On December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 By Neil G

We had better start by getting the obvious out of the way. The Vic 20 was not a powerful machine. Your average Vic 20 game had to be programmed in less than 3,583 bytes. To put that into context, a modern mobile phone with sixteen gigabytes of storage has approximately […]