The Commodore 64 is 30 years old and sudo 8 bit gaming

I can hardly believe that the Commodore 64 was released 30 years ago, even though I was a ZX Spectrum boy back in 1982 I have a huge fondness of the C64. It’s music chip was massively better than my Spectrums, and it’s hardware smooth sprites looked great. Of course I can blame one friend who got me interested in computer back in 1992 my good friend @sm0d You have a lot to blame for buddy!!

An 8bit musical blast from the past.

 

8 bit gaming in 2012, done right!

Swordandsworcery

Before I start explaining that games back at 1980′s as being the best games eva… (they were not!) let me tell you about a great little iPad/iPhone/iTouch game that has it’s roots firmly set in the 80′s 8bit gaming. Swords and Sworcery - http://www.swordandsworcery.com/ it’s such a lovely little game and reminds me so much of early Commodore 64 gaming and it’s music, it’s keeping me nicely entertained on my daily commute! As it’s designed for todays hardware it’s so much more fun than trying to run a MAME version as they were all designed for joysticks not a multitouch screen so Im happy to leave 80′s gaming as a loving memory and play games like this that rekindle my love and memory of gaming.

 

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