The Explosive Fun of Bazooka Bill

The Explosive Fun of Bazooka Bill

What can you possibly say about Bazooka Bill? It wasn’t a particularly brilliant game. It didn’t contain any major firsts in video game history. It was a fairly standard side scroller action game. So, why bother writing about it?  Well, Bazooka Bill was one of the...
The Wonderful Weirdness of IK+

The Wonderful Weirdness of IK+

If you created a Venn diagram with circles for the Commodore 64, Jackie Chan, John Travolta, and the ancient art of karate, the overlap would be International Karate +. The game, typically referred to as IK+ (released in the United States as Chop N’ Drop), was not the...
Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer

Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer

Limbo, if you’re not aware, was a fantastic platform puzzler released for a glut of platforms in 2010 by a studio called Playdead. It’s one of my personal favourite indie games of the era, involving a boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous environment....