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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 11 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 11 (November). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, November 18th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. R …
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General • 1st 1970's/80's C64, Console, Or Computer Game You Thought Looked And Played Just As Good As The Arcade?

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Thought this would be a fun topic. If you grew up in the era of arcade machines you know they set the standard in breakthroughs and it was always exciting to walk into an arcade and see literally month by month how graphics, audio, or video game concepts …
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Games • Archive of the (few) USA-released games on tape?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Has anyone ever archived these? I know that a very small amount of games were released on tape in the USA.For sure, I have seen Fort Apocalypse, Zaxxon, Bruce Lee, Temple of Apshai, maybe a Cosmi game or two.All the TAP archives I've ever run across are 1 …
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The Hidden History Of Donkey Kong Is About To Be Revealed

Time Extension about 8 months ago

1997 "tell all" document is getting translated.Donkey Kong is one of the most important games in Nintendo's history for many reasons. It gave us both the titular character and Mario, the latter of which would become the company's mascot. Secondly, it highl …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 09 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 08 (June). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, August 12th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. Remembe …
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Games • Gamebase Zaxxon/Super Zaxxon US Gold cartridge version link?

Lemon64 about 9 months ago

So, I owned the US Gold branded tapes but as far as I know the cartridge versions were not anything to do with US Gold, possibly neither was ever released on cartridge outside the USA.Am I wrong or is the attribution of "US Gold/SEGA" to the cartridge ver …
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Retro Rewind: August 1982 in Computer & Video Games – Pilot Episode!

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

You join me, dear reader, for a bit of an experiment! I started collecting Computer & Video Games magazine in earnest in early 1985, buying every issue every month until the middle of 1992 when, at 20-years old by then, a combination of falling behind …

Looking for Tetris for the Model 1????

VCFed about 10 months ago

Just what the title says. I like Tetris and I have several TRS-80 Model 1s (as well as a Model III) and I'd like to enjoy the combination someday. After all, if this thing can do Zaxxon, Tetris shouldn't be that hard. However, the only version I've found …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 08 - Cast Your Votes!!!

Lemon64 about 10 months ago

This vote is for the game we will play in Round 08 (June). The voting starts now and ends 23:59 GMT Saturday, August 12th Vote for 5 games. Votes with less than 5 games will not be counted. Votes with a game on the list below will not be counted. Remembe …
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Discovering Tower of Evil on Commodore VIC-20 (and the June 1984 Issue of C&VG!)

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

My own collection of Computer & Video Games magazine began in April 1985, and apart from the following month’s issue, I didn’t miss one until well into the nineties when, in my early-twenties, my limited magazine budget had moved on to lads’ mag …
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Games Competitions • Games Competition 2023 - Round 07 - Super Zaxxon

Lemon64 about 10 months ago

RULES: Round 7 starts 17th of July and will end midnight, 6th of August (GMT) Use the version of the game below The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible Post screenshots in this thread. Please ensure that you own a legal copy of this gam …
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Supermarket • SUPER ZAXXON for C64 (cartridge)

Lemon64 about 11 months ago

SUPER ZAXXON Fully compatible with your C64 / C128 PAL & NTSCThis is a gold plated cartridge with gold finger bevelingUnlike the boards with the "tin" style cartridge edges, this version won't damage your cartridge port by wearing and clogging your po …

Re: Help ID an old game please.

Arcade Controls about 11 months ago

Reminds me of Zaxxon... …
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Book Review: ZX Nightmares by Graeme Mason

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

It’s taken around forty years but finally I know there’s someone else out there who feels my pain, and actually a whole lot more besides – 270 full colour, premium quality hardback pages of pain, to be precise! And as such, it was a no brainer when …
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Super Trunko Go trumpets on Switch

Portable Gaming Roundup about 1 year ago

Isometric shooters are old hat, notably classics Zaxxon and Viewpoint. And isometric puzzlers were legends of the 8-bit genre thanks to Ultimate's Underwurlde and Alien8 up to the Vita's Lumo. But few games mixed the genres up, something that Super Trunko …

The Intellivisionaries - Episode 25 - Zaxxon / Space Raid

The Intellivisionaries Podcast about 8 years ago

In this episode, we review two games; Coleco Zaxxon and ColectorVision Space Raid.  We hear a bit about what went into Space Raid from the designer / programmer, Oscar "Nanochess" Gutiérrez.  We also have an interview with the creator and one of the hos …