In this week's episode we take a look at four more games loaded from floppy onto a Commodore 64. This week's selection ended up being quite interesting, in my perhaps not so humble opinion. We started with Platoon, then Spy vs. Spy, A View to a Kill (which unfortunately I didn't end up being able […]

In this week's episode we play four classic Commodore 64 games. Tetris needs no introduction, of course, while we then went on to play a horizontal shooter called Delta followed by what may have been the "goriest game of the 80s": Deathwish III. We wrapped up with a quick play of a racing game called […]

In this week's episode we take a look at three more Commodore 64 games loaded from a random floppy disk I found amongst the collection. The first, Football Manager, is a stone-cold classic. Not the most visually interesting of games, but one that enthralled a generation. The next two are on the stranger side. There's […]

In this week's episode we play YALNG (Yet Another Last Ninja Game), The Last Ninja 3, followed by Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior and Shanghai (a version of mahjong). Many thanks to Martin Griffin for the inspiration to dig up TLN3. As usual I did what I could to play these games without any advance preparation, […]

In this week's episode we take a look at three classic Commodore 64 games. The first game, The Last Ninja 2, is a sequel to a game we played last week, of course. The second game, Ghostbusters, is one I used to play on my ZX Spectrum as a child, although the C64 version looks […]

This week's episode looks at three games I'd checked out briefly yesterday, as I'd been getting a little fed-up with editing out games that didn't load. As it was I had to load the first game – The Last Ninja – three times before it worked properly (I did edit that bit out). After that […]

That's it – we're halfway there! I was hoping to make a bigger splash with my 2^5th episode, but between my first vaccine jab and my first foray into team sports in 8 months (yes, perhaps not the wisest combo, but there you go), I had neither the time nor the energy to make something […]

This week's episode is longer than I expected, but I found I kept going on to the next game as the one before left me wanting more. I would have loved to have played the first game – Who Dares Wins II – for longer, but it crashed almost straightaway. One to come back to, […]

In this week's episode we dust off the Atari 2600 and play a few games on cartridge. We kick things off with Stargate, which is a sequel to Defender, apparently, and then play Missile Command followed by Moon Patrol – games we saw (or talked about) on the C64 in episodes #6 and #26 respectively. […]

It's still a holiday, here in Switzerland, so I'll keep this post short and sweet. We played four games on the C64 in today's Floppy Friday: Defender (which we played in Floppy Friday #25 on the Atari 2600), One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird, Sammy Lightfoot and David's Midnight Magic:     I […]