More Freaky Homebrew Games & Ports (A Pig Quest, Wild Wood, Wolfenstein Maze 3D)

As you guys know I’m always on the lookout for cool homebrew games and ports/demakes for retro consoles and recently I’ve come a across a few more excellent ones.

Firstly is A Pig Quest for the Commodore 64 that uses some clever colour cycling tricks to force more colours than you normally can into the gameplay area resulting in it looking better than most c64 games. It’s cool environment effects are equally impressive with detailed moving backgrounds, leaves falling, rain, lightning and monsters that change more due to some animation compression tricks too. It’s full of so much crazy stuff they’re apparently having problems putting together the physical cart for real Commodore 64s lol!

Website: https://piggy18.itch.io/a-pig-quest

Second is another new game in the making called Wild Wood that’s also pushing the Commodore 64 to it’s limits with colour tricks and extra layers of parallax scrolling resulting on a lot of background movement! The artwork is truly incredible and the game just looks utterly amazing for a c64 game.

Website: https://www.wildwoodgame.co.uk/

8-bit Civilizations – a Civ 1 & 2 like game for Commodore 64!

Wow.. I love a good classic console homebrew game, especially when they involve Sid Meier’s Civilization haha! I was pretty blown away by Tupi’s Civ1 for Sega Megadrive/Genesis fan port project a while back but this one is even crazier lol! A fellow named Fabian Hertel has made a Civ1&2 hybrid like homebrew game for the good old 1980s Commodore 64! Sadly it looks like he hasn’t worked on it for a few years but I’ll try to contact him and see if he’s still going with it. There’s a playable demo that apparently has working AIs and you can play from start to finish on so it’s mostly complete.

Links:
https://www.protovision.games/development/8_bit_civ.php?language=en
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=153098

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Sonic The Hedgehog & Super Mario Bros on Commodore 64

Wow!! The world (and Nintendo’s lawyers lol) went bonkers a few years ago when Super Mario Bros was successfully ported to the Commodore 64 and was actually fast & looked good (I’ll put a link & video below if you missed all the fuss). Well now it’s Sonic’s turn as Sonic The Hedgehog 1 from the SEGA Master System has been ported to C64 and it looks & sounds really good! I love seeing people in the homebrew scene pushing the limits of old consoles like this.

C64 Sonic The Hedgehog:
https://www.indieretronews.com/2021/12/sonic-hedgehog-is-coming-to-c64-and.html

C64 Super Mario Bros:
http://www.indieretronews.com/2019/04/hot-news-super-mario-bros-has-been.html

Great Retro Gaming News Sources

Hi guys,

Found some great retro gaming, indie gaming, classic consoles & emulation news sources last night. I’m amazed to see just how alive the old Commodore 64 community is too. Check them all out!

https://twitter.com/Indie_RetroNEWS

(there are people friggin building new Commodore 64s & making new games lol)
https://twitter.com/CommodoreBlog

https://twitter.com/_RetroGaming_

(I used to visit Zophar’s Domain in the 90s lol)
https://twitter.com/ZopharsDomain

https://twitter.com/emuparadise

(These guys appear to be a magazine that’s been going for years.. how on earth did I not know about them!!!)
https://twitter.com/RetroGamer_Mag

Looks like you can subscibe to the magazine here:
https://www.isubscribe.com.au/Retro-Gamer-UK-Magazine-Subscription-Subscription.cfm

And these guys have past copies in digital format:
https://au.zinio.com/www/browse/back-issues.jsp?productId=500654829

These are Australian sites however it’s a UK magazine so no doubt you’ll be able to find similar online distributors for other international locations.