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The original and officially planned sequel to the popular platform game Bubble Bubble has been released, which is a high-quality fan project that fundamentally reinterprets the Commodore 64 gaming experience. Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave brings the legendary fan-made arcade hack Lost Cave from 2012 to the C64, featuring 100 brand-new levels originally designed by TAITO as extra …
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A new strategy game that builds on the foundations of classic city-building and economic strategy games (such as Hammurabi or early SimCity), but offers more complex decision-making situations. In Rise of Babylon, your goal is to achieve the greatest possible population growth in the city of Babylon during your reign. The story takes place in the …
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The game is set in 2084, on the distant Deep Space Colony K-7 space station. The colony has been attacked by a mysterious crystallization process of unknown origin, which threatens to completely consume the station and its inhabitants. The player's task is to stop the infection and clean up the sectors using special vaccine projectiles. …
Its not a simple modification, but a professional-level fan project that gives Commodore 64 owners a full-fledged sequel nearly 40 years after the original release. This release is based on the original 1987 C64 port, but modernizes and expands it in every way. Lost Cave was originally a 2012 arcade ROM hack that collected levels …
The upcoming isometric adventure game for Commodore 64, spearheaded by the renowned artist and developer Robert Ramsay. Please note, we are developing the PC Windows version first, all graphics will be C64 ready for porting. Unlike many C64 titles that rely on repeating character tiles, CityCat utilizes high-detail bitmap backgrounds. This allows for organic, non-repetitive …
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A brand new and ambitious project thanks to KD Software (K. Debczynski), where the game transports players to a dark, haunted archipelago where the rugged life of piracy meets the supernatural horrors of an undead curse. An early prototype of an action-adventure game where you play as a pirate battling hordes of the undead. Players …
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A strategic roguelike deck-builder by the hungarian talented coder Kornel Kolma based on tactical card battles and resource management. The goal is to defeat a hierarchical robot army using an ever-expanding modular system. for the Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, and Commodore PET, featuring full-PETSCII graphics Current Project Status for the Commodore 64 Version: The game …
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A very interesting game has arrived, in which the developer offers a very simplified gameplay, unlike his previous games. No evil enemies, no complex puzzles or game mechanics, no hectic gameplay – just pure clicking and flickering screen joy. The player controls a reactor that blows up fuel pellets to generate energy. The goal is …
TT-64 is a clean, speed- and reflex-based classic motorcycle racing game that brings legendary OutRun-style branching gameplay. Leave the city and make your way to one of the five goals before the time runs out. The game is non-linear, at checkpoints, the player decides whether to turn left or right, which determines the chosen route. …
V8id is a massive multiplayer online (MMO) infrastructure created by JMP $EA31 with the goal of creating a persistent online world that runs natively on the Commodore 64 and other retro computers while relying on a modern, real-time backend server. Imagine a persistent online world running not just on modern machines, but directly from your Commodore 64. …
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