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New action platform titles are few and far between. Great ones are even harder to find. There simply are not a lot of these being made anymore. Most independent homebrew developers fall back on easier genres such as scrolling shooters, First-Person (FPS) games, or mashups of various genres. Knights of Bytes have already tackled the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Sam’s Journey’
New NES Game Footage Released for Sam’s Journey
March 25th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Commodore 64, Comp, NES, News, Nintendo 
Tags: action, adventure, Knights of Bytes, Sam's Journey 
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Sams Journey NES Teaser Released, Changes Spotted
June 1st, 2019 Carl Williams Sam’s Journey is an interesting game that debuted on the Commodore 64 to great fanfare. If you have seen, or better yet played, the C64 version then you have a good idea why it received the praise it did. The question on most fans minds was, where is the Nintendo Entertainment System version? Well, it […]
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5 Homebrew Titles that Push Retro Hardware
December 6th, 2015 Carl Williams While in today’s gaming world it is nothing to see super detailed, hyper animated characters and fluid gameplay. Um, well most of those anyhow. For the rest of us, the ones that grew up on Commodore and Atari and 8-Bit graphics, we just don’t feel welcome in the gaming world of today. This is not […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, 64, alex kidd, castlevania, commodore, dizzy, Majesty of Sprites, platform, Plus 4, retro, retrogaming, Sam Coupe, Sam's Journey, side scroll, Spectral Interlude, Texas Instruments, TI-99/4A, Treasure Island, zx spectrum No Comments »
5 Indie Titles Prove 2D Still Lives
November 30th, 2015 Carl Williams 2D is a rarer and rarer occurrence, especially on consoles. That is saddening for a retro gaming fan like myself as I grew up playing the greats. Super Mario Bros 1/2 (site link)/3 (site link)/World/Land, Mega Man series, Castlevania (site link) etc. Even the obscure ones like Shockman (Turbo Grafx-16), Popful Mail (Sega CD), even […]
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Amazing Action Platform Title, Majesty of Sprites, Comes to the Commodore Plus/4
August 20th, 2015 Carl Williams When you think of gaming in the style of Super Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog you probably would never see the Commodore Plus/4 make your list of platforms. Hell, Commodore engineers are probably reading this and thinking, “What the hell? Console style action platform gaming on the Plus/4? No way.” Yes way. Majesty of […]
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Five Commodore 64 Homebrew Games That Rock
July 4th, 2015 Carl Williams The Commodore 64 was a gaming computer from the 80’s that just wouldn’t quit. Initially not intended to be a gaming computer, the fans simply made it one through the openness it offered. Commodore was not one to shy away from this series of events, though they did continue on their original plan for it […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 64, c64, commodore, Guns n Ghosts, Heroes & Cowards, homebrew, Knight n Grail, KnightnGrail 3, retro, retro game, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, rgm, Sam's Journey, Soulless, sueck, video, youtube No Comments » Sam’s Journey Tells Mario to put up or Shut Up on Commodore 64, Nintendo Silent
April 11th, 2015 Carl Williams Super Mario Brothers never made it to the Commodore 64, though Hudson Soft did license the series for IBM PC computers. That might be why Nintendo stopped allowing their games onto other platforms, till the CD-i debacle with Zelda and Mario. That has not stopped other publishers from doing games that are quite similar to […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: action, adventure, c64, commodore 64, indie retro news, Knights of Bytes, nintendo, platform, retro, retro game, retro gaming, retrogame, retrogaming, Sam's Journey, SMB, super mario bros 3 Comments »
