Subj : Re: C64 new games
To : Chris Baird
From : Joe Cincotta
Date : Wed Sep 22 2021 10:14 am
On 21/9/21 9:20 pm, Chris Baird wrote:
>> Eww. The pioneers in corrupt computer games reviewing.
>
> ...and of course the sexist advertising and promotion, which was
> already dropped from the general computing press by the
> mid-1980s, but of course ZZap!64 was a magazine for easily-lead
> teenage boys.
>
I think budgets have shrunk a little since those days folks. Nowadays
it's one of the best ways of finding out about the latest games and
releases for the 64. There is also an Amiga version in the works AFAIK.
If you don't mind using YouTube, then there is a South African guy
called Bastich-B who does great game reviews for the C64. His most
recent was for a new 3D space trading game called Gates of the Ancients.
Looks like a filled-poly version of Elite at the same framerate! Pretty
amazing for a 1Mhz C64! Actually Bastich also does a 'best of genre'
style video where he goes through game genres and looks at old and new
games of the genre - some of these videos have been really eye opening.
