Category: Classic

Jump into your R-9/Styx/spaceship of choice, and join us defending humanity against incredible odds and bright orange bullets.

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It’s taken us awhile to cover Commodore’s amazing 8 bit machine the C64 but we wanted to make a big deal with this one.

We chose the C64 as our first machine for our new Listener’s Choice Top 10- the games voted for by the listeners of the show. We asked for your five fave games on social media and then took the top 10 highest voted games and then played them all to give our views.

So good or bad we’ll be honest with our viewpoints. We are also joined by Daz from Retro Domination and Arcade Perfect podcasts to give his views on the games.

Finally in this episode Paul interviews Neil Grayson, editor of the excellent Commodore Format Archive. They discuss Neil’s history with the C64 and a lot about Commodore Format magazine. Neil’s site can be found at www.commodoreformat.wordpress.com and it is full of magazine scans, interviews and more.

Thanks also to everyone who voted for your favourite games and we hope you enjoy the show.

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If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the news lately, you may have caught a glimpse of an upcoming Mega Drive adventure making the rounds. Originally announced back in late 2015, this yet to be released homebrew title known as Tanglewood is slowly nearing its release. With plenty to update fans and backers of the project on, the development team has not only detailed some recent additions, but also released a fully playable gameplay demo in ROM format.

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Miss the days of getting a ‘back up’ copy of an Amiga game from a friend? The feeling of holding a 3.5 floppy disk freshly ground from somebody’s external disk drive, still warm from the inner most sacred depths of X-Copy? Or maybe you had an Atari ST. Shame.

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Sony’s entry into the handheld fistfight was everything you’d expect from them. Sleek and glossy black, big bright wide screen display, and a host of titles squeezed down to fit, plus loads of new games made to order. Join us as we take our first look at this future-classic console.

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Any retro gamer accustomed to the fine art of pointing and clicking will know the name Tim Schafer. His illustrious career started by porting ‘Maniac Mansion’ to the Nintendo NES, but he is best know for being a talented writer and programmer of the iconic pirate-themed adventure ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ (working alongside Ron Gilbert).

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Big Deez Productions had a dream; take a game often called “the worst video game of all time” and remake it for modern consoles. With a team made up of people who had worked on ‘Halo’, ‘Street Fighter’, ‘Final Fantasy’ and the full backing of professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal they took to Indiegogo.

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While the Analogue Super NT may have only just hit the virtual shelves of online retailers, retro developers have already found a method to unlock the system’s true potential. Although an early release, the Super NT Jailbreak now allows the booting of Super Nintendo ROMs from SD card, along with holding plenty of potential further down the line for additional FPGA cores.

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In 1987 Toho released a Nintendo Famicom adaptation of the high school baseball manga known as Touch. Loosely following its source material, this long-lost adventure featured a somewhat open world to explore whilst rescuing puppies that had been scattered throughout a troublesome town. Needless to say City Adventure Touch: Mystery of Triangle never saw release outside of Japan, however, ROM hackers have just brought the game to English speaking audiences with a newly released fan translation patch.

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In 1999 GT Interactive released 40 Winks on the Sony PlayStation. This somewhat forgotten 3D platformer arrived at a time when just about everyone was experimenting with the genre, so it comes as no surprise that the Nintendo 64 port of the game was cancelled. Nearly two decades later and the retro publisher Piko Interactive has taken to Kickstarter to finally gift the game its much anticipated debut on the 64-bit system.

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