A lovely huge preservation update today! Thanks to @malcseventyfour.bsky.social, 15 previously unpreserved Commodore 64 educational titles from Grolier/Mindflight have now been recovered, including the long sought-after The Story of Miss Mouse and Rhyme Land. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/grol...

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Vinny Mainolfi | FREEZE64.com | Commodore 64@freeze64.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Hi! Here are some random Commodore 64 screenshots for you!

BAD APPLE in Impulse Tracker! 🍎🔊🎵

Happy 80th birthday to game designer Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry, Torin’s Passage) – a key figure in the story of Sierra On-Line!

I have just released a version of my ALTAIRIS game for the Sharp MZ-700 !! Feel free to check it out! loudscotsbloke.itch.io/altairis-sha...

ALTAIRIS - Sharp MZ-700 by Loudscotsbloke

A brand new Tetris style game for the MZ-700

loudscotsbloke.itch.io

Dawn of Microsoft Games: This is a cool interview from a Microsoft exec. Close Combat a series I got to work on after my time at Midway (Arcade Games) & right before I went to wok on the Genesis3D engine - which became WildTangent (that service you always uninstalled on your new PC😄) #RetroGames

Joachim Froholt@jfroholt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We published an interview with Microsoft veteran Stuart Moulder about his work with the Close Combat series in the nineties. By @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social

Step into my office, please! (this is where I work this summer, which is pretty neat if you ask me) And yes, please come visit. www.visitnorway.com/listings/tom...

YES!

Norway vs Brazil World Cup 2026 Round of 16 Ostenstad with a higher rating than Solskjaer?! #SensibleSoccer #Norway #Brazil #Brasil #NorBra #football #soccer #Haaland #Ronaldo #worldcup #90s #gaming #amiga #commodore #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #gamersunite #gaming

In this remarkable image of white supremicists on a subway train in Washington I see cowards afraid to show their faces and a strong woman who shouldn't have to put up with this shit. (Photo: Cheney Orr - Reuters)

August 7th sees the release of the official Expansion Pack for Worms: The Director’s Cut on the Amiga: Over 40 new custom levels Over 50 sample sets 10 new landscape types Massive thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project. Stay tuned for more details! 🪱

As promised: the tool we made to help convert Hoi! from Amiga assembly code to portable C code. The original Hoi! assembly files are included to prove it's working. bitbucket.org/rhinoid/conv... We hope it will help other Amiga devs to revive their old games and breathe new life into them. 💚

when folks say that manual procedural generation work is not the same as generative AI, this is what we mean. it's all just humans making artistic decisions, even if it is generated. it's more often than not a highly manual process as detail oriented as when i'm manually making environments.

loren schmidt@lorenschmidt.bsky.social · last mo.

i'm thinking about cases for high buildings next to doors through walls. the rooftop could be connected! it could extend the rooftop so the structure merges with the wall, or it could do a narrow earth connector...

I unexpectedly got the chance to interview Akira Yamato about 70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X, and Bill Litshauer about the remaster. You can read it here (I posted Yamato's answers in Japanese too):

Q&A about 70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X - Spillhistorie.no

We spoke with Akira Yamato and Bill Litshauer about the story behind the 1999 original, and the new remaster.

spillhistorie.no

Found this... but do I actually have the unit itself somewhere? Not sure! Might have sent it off to a colleague as I started focusing more on PC games. Still have the PS2 one, though.

My first game device as a kid was a Soundic TV Sports console, featuring Pong and a few variations upon that theme. It was connected to an old TV set via an analog coaxial RF cable. The exciting early years of digital light and magic. 💚

Silicium@assosilicium.bsky.social · last mo.

En 1977, pas de cartes graphiques, mais de l'imagination et des interrupteurs orange. 🚀 Et une superbe sérigraphie sur la #Soundic. Le design te jure que c'est un nouveau sport ; le hardware se contente de déplacer exactement le même point blanc. Pas un bug, une fonctionnalité. 🏓😂

The Acrobat was an ambitious comic book-style adventure by Simon Price and Mike Lewis, planned for PC, Atari ST and Amiga before MicroProse cancelled the project. Released today on Games That Weren't, including the surviving source code. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/06/the-...

I don't know if anyone will see this, but if I see someone posting "Why aren't game critics doing this?" I will block them. As a game critic, I've spent too many years trying my best, and I'm tired of getting this bullshit flung in my face.

The final part of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the Knights library collections for the Sharp MZ-80A :)

Spillhistorie.no@spillhistorie.no · 2mo ago

Det er snart på tide med et nytt prosjekt, så dette blir siste tur innom Knights-samlingen med småspill og andre greier for Sharp MZ-80A på en stund.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Infe2tation: coming soon! The galactic sheriff is back to unravel the Mystery of the Crystal Moon. Run ’n’ gun action with massive levels, varied enemies, 4 distinct areas, fun power ups, and a mini-game featuring robo-sidekick, D3P-UT! Late June release. #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit #indiegame

Here's a fun suggestion for @bsky.app: don't push away users with draconian and illogical rule enforcement. We only have two other options: fascist X or ghost town Mastodon. We'd like to be here as much as you'd like to continue existing, so let's do each other a favor here.

I just had to make a games disk for this Kaypro before I got it back to the client

Following the open source re-release of Moon Child and Hoi, we're now happy to announce the open source re-release of our 1994 puzzle game Clockwiser. We hope you will enjoy it again! Be sure to check the Demo mode for gameplay instructions… bitbucket.org/rhinoid/cloc...

We published an interview with Microsoft veteran Stuart Moulder about his work with the Close Combat series in the nineties. By @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social

– These games were probably doomed as far as being published by us - Spillhistorie.no

Microsoft veteran Stuart Moulder talks about his work on the Close Combat series.

spillhistorie.no

Just getting setup for this year’s awesome Retro Fest :)

Still alive!

Not unfamiliar with being rejected for job applications, but today was the first time I've been rejected because I had prior experience. WTF. I was literally the perfect fit for the job, but I didn't even get considered because I wasn't a n00b. OK. Thanks for the fast reply at least.