A #C64 that is still in productive use today: https://x.com/RetroVidGaming/status/1868587811517219090
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Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt
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Evolution of C64 games 1982–2023 (and Bach on the C=TAR) - Iftkryo
RetroGaming Shorts Part 100 - Coup D'Etat
Coup D'Etat (Commodore 64)
Old school BASIC inspiration! This game has evocative greyscale PETSCII art. You're trying to overthrow the government, with old school BASIC action where you simply input choices and numbers to spend/buy/etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9XK89cQg0
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 098 - Angry Ninja
Angry Ninja 1994 (Commodore 64)
Awesome PETSCII art inspiration! This game really shows off what old school C64 PETSCII aesthetic can do. Just because you CAN fill up the whole screen doesn't mean you should. The small size of the map view gives an interesting sense of scale, and cropping the fights to just around the two (well animated!) characters makes combat feel more focused and deadly.
Oh yeah, the PETSCII animation of the melee fights is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefcRDflDv4
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 077 - The A Team
The A Team 1985 (Commodore 64)
This game is so bad. It is so bad. I pity the fool that payed for this game.
I feel like there may be some retrogame design inspiration somewhere in here ... or maybe just what not to do ...
... or maybe it's just a train wreck worth gawking at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3JG-xoYJYo
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 073 - Lost Realms of Murkasada Episode II
Lost Realms of Murkasada Episode II 2023 (Commodore 64)
This "RPG-lite" has lovely 8x8 pixel art. Lots of pixel art inspiration here! It may also serve as game design inspiration, showing how you don't really need complex RPG systems or even battle animation for a cool CRPG experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqEPzJYaQaQ
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 067 - Sea Route to India
Sea Route to India 1984 (Commodore 64)
A COMPUTE type in BASIC game of the Oregon Trail type, with nice little minigames, all in PETSCII.
I think it could serve as good inspiration for mobile game design and aesthetics. For example, the PETSCII map and travelogue "dot" movement gives a particularly effective feeling of scale and adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG5WvhyFp44
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 066 - Coil Cop
Coil Cop 1985 (Commodore 64)
Thing on a Spring is a cute platformer where you control a cute cartoon creature with a springy pogo leg. Here in the USA, though, it was renamed Coil Cop and advertised by Epyx as part of its totally rad MAXX OUT series.
So look at the totally rad COP OUT magazine ad for Coil Cop. And then contrast with the cutesy gameplay. I still wish the game I imagined from the ad existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwEiKJXPpMA
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 064 - Chopper Hunt
Chopper Hunt 1984 (Atari 800/C64)
Buried Bucks/Chopper Hunt is an interesting game with small sprites and a whole lot of pixel level terrain destruction. This sort of game design was never terribly common, but there's a lot of fun little possibilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffoztcxOkB8
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 063 - Ad Astra
Ad Astra 2023 (Commodore 64)
Ad Astra is a recent space trading action game, with an overhead view similar to Asteroids. It's deliberately slow paced rather than relying upon quick arcade action reflexes. The space trading genre, born in 1973, is one of the oldest computer game genres but it's still going strong.
It's a good place to try a game design, since the basic space trading framework gives the player a reason to travel different places and accomplishments to achieve by traveling around, without too much explicit developer effort designing "levels" or explicit missions. And it's not just the same game over and over again, since you can randomize which goods are more expensive where, as well as randomize prices rising/falling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzNgZ-BUAo
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RetroGaming Shorts Part 061 - Various Star Raiders type C64 games
Various Star Raiders type C64 games (C64)
Here are a few Star Trek type C64 games with first person shooting action (as popularized by Star Raiders).
3D Time Trek (Anirog 1983) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ckKxDZprDE
Star Force (ECP 1987) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyt8KNu8Mw
PETSCII StarForce (???) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUFlhAsBOHk - actually a Star Fire clone
Okay, that last one isn't actually a full Star Trek/Star Raiders type game, but its PETSCII graphics could be used for a PETSCII Star Raiders type game.
Just throwing these out there for Star Trek or Space Trading game inspiration!
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