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A Look At Boulder Dash
Here we are, ready to celebrate the anniversary of another C64 smash hit of the good old times: Boulder Dash…
A Look At Decathlon
Published by Activision in the spring of 1984, Decathlon arrived just in time for 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. It took…
A Look At Rambo II
What’s better than starting 2021 with a nice retrospective of a smash-hit Commodore 64 game? And what’s better than following…
MazingerZ-C64 Update
A hot and endless Summer is definitely not the right period to stay home and write about games, so the…
One Step Closer To The Finish
In the last year or so I consistently get involved more and more into the 8-bit scene. As a young…
30 Years Ago – An 8-bit Retrospective
The September issue of Super Commodore 64/128 was possibly the last 8-bit related magazine I bought before enrolling in the…
A Look At The Past: Leaderboard Golf
What a great period to live were the ’80ies. I will never be able to say it enough, but those…
8-bit Vengeance – Part 2. Introducing MEGA65
A couple of weeks ago I published my first article in the 8-bit Vengeance series. Aimed to shed some light…
A Look At Mazinger Z. C64 Video Game
There is always a first time for everything, and today I’m writing my first article on a C64 game. It…
A Look At Entombed
The sequel to 1984‘s The Staff of Karnath, Entombed is the second game to feature the aristocrat adventurer, Sir Arthur…
A Look At Pistop 2
Widely considered to be one of the greatest C64 games of all time, Pitstop 2 is a split-screen racer that…
A Look At Law Of The West
I have to admit it: retracing part of the story of the Amiga and the Commodore64 by means of Martin…
Heaven On Hearth-MEGA65 DevKit
The MEGA65 project has been thoroughly covered on this blog since last year. A first article was published to introduce…
New Amiga Book Coming On KS
Over a year ago I reviewed the outstanding book Commodore: The Inside Story, from former Commodore UK managing director David…
8-bit Vengeance – Part 4
Such a busy life, I’ve been living lately: playing like I mean it (PS4, mostly), writing about games, writing about…
One Giant Leap For Mankind
Fifty years ago, at the end of an incredible endeavor, the first men set foot on the Moon. Such a…
8-bit Vengeance – Part 3 – Vintage Commodore 128 Book
As a third, and for the time being, last part of the series “8-bit Vengeance“, I will introduce you to…
8-bit Vengeance – How to Revive a Myth
8-bit computing is now living a second youth: not only the guys who were there when it all started (I…
Book Review: Commodore The Inside Story
Preserving the memory of the past has always been a sensitive topic for all human activities, and even though for…