My union went on strike for three weeks during the summer of 1997, so I was left with more spare time and less money than usual. So I took the opportunity to make a game for the C64. I chose to port the classic Atari 2600 game Frogs and Flies since Carla and I had […]
Alex’s plea for more Commodore posts got me thinking – I actually have been doing lots of C= related posting still, just not here on my blog. It goes to other forums, such as Lemon64, AtariAge, and most recently, Denial (all linked at the right). This is pretty cheap, but here’s a (somewhat revised) post […]
I often buy games for the Game Boy Advance without reading reviews first – when they’re in the bargain bin, and the game description on the box sounds promising enough. I’ve said often enough that my favourite genre of games are vehicular combat. Get in a car with machine guns, rockets, flame-throwers, and blow up […]
Vacation Day 3 was supposed to go up today, but it’s not done yet. It’s really a lot of work writing these travelogues up, especially on a day as exciting and busy and full as DAY 3! So you’ll just have to wait. While you’re waiting, you can listen to some great video game music, […]
Happy Birthday Peter, 4 years old! Peter is really into Mario, which I think is cool, because he’s a retro video game character who has stood the test of time. Because people really like short, fat, athletic Italian carpenters turned plumbers. It gives us all hope. Peter and his sisters have played Donkey Kong (the […]
I was waiting for someone to leave comments like that, Richard and Erinose. Eventually, I would have left a similar comment myself! I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the PAL (European TV standard) version of the C64 30-games-in-one joystick. The rest of the time I’ve been thinking about what I should […]
Got back tonight, and my friend Adrian is happy to host the pics I took at the World of Commodore in Toronto this weekend. You can see all the pictures here. Any picture with a * beneath it has a comment – I made a bunch, other people will probably add theirs too. More reporting […]
I played Car Battler Joe a second time through, and totally enjoyed it again. It really is a modern remake of Origin’s classic Autoduel game, a real favourite of mine – I doubt they could have made this game without being aware of the original. In both games you’re a guy who gets in an […]