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Don’t Dig Up The Dead by MorningToast is a horror adventure game made for PICO-8.

Your goal in this game is to find 3 magic relics to help rid the land of evil. Use the ‘Find-O-Meter’ and your trusty shovel to search the forest. But if you dig up the dead you’ll need to fight them off to stay alive. Use the items you dig up to power up. And keep an eye out for chests and unlock them to get powerful upgrades. Every hole digs up a soul and sends it into the wild. If you get caught by a ghost, you’ll have to defeat it before you can continue on your quest. When you find a magic relic, take it back to the old man in the village. Find all 3 and you can win the game!

Friend Ship by Adam Wizard is an early space shooter game made for PICO-8.

In this game, you can blow your enemies up, or befriend them by using your secondary weapon, hit an enemy with its charge shot and they will become your friend and provide you with support fire. Blowing up enemies charges up the orange meter in the top left corner of the screen, when it’s full, you’ll gain an extra life. Survive for 5 minutes and you will encounter a boss, if you beat it the game will loop, and you can consider yourself a winner, good luck!

2k Ghostscroll by Fairlight is a 2k Intro released at ‘Intro Creation Competition 2022’ for Commodore 64.​

BencorPira-Ted by Mayday is a 4k Intro released at ‘Intro Creation Competition 2022’ for Commodore 64.​

2k Crazy Remake by Laxity is a 2k Intro released at ‘Intro Creation Competition 2022’ for Commodore 64.​

Bomb Jack by fregarni for the MSX1. An excellent remake, freshly released.

This game takes you across 5 different screens, collecting bombs and defeating the enemy as you go. You are ‘Jack’, can you collect all the bombs, dodge the many obstacles in you way to go through to the next screen?

Balls like a Frog by drmortalwombat is a new Commodore 64 game, released today.

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You, as a loveable little amphibian, have stumbled upon the temple of Blaf.

This disturbance has made you aware of the Sun god being trapped inside one of the temples, where he is kept encased in stone.

While at this temple you see that it tries to destroy you with spheres on a path, so you must get firing and bust those balls before they reach the skull and end the frog’s hopping life.

 In game control:

• Direction: The frog rotates towards the joystick direction
• Rotation: Use joystick left/right to rotate frog
• Paddle 1/2: An analog paddle controls frog rotation
• A 1351 mouse controls direction

The space bar swaps the two balls (except for mouse mode, where the right mouse button swaps)

Game modes:

• Adventure: progress through 76 levels and 22 maps to free the sun god.
• Gauntlet: play an endgless game one map with increasing difficulty
• Training: improve your skill by playing a single level

The game works on PAL Commdore 64 only (actual hardware and emulation).

8 Number Puzzle by Cout Games is a puzzle game made for Commodore 64.

In this game, you need to move all the tiles in the grid to order them 1 to 8 from left to right, top to bottom. Press the corresponding tile to move it into the empty space.

Fruitfall by Altrix Studios is a game made for Nesbox TIC-80.

In this game, you need to use your trusty trampoline to bounce the falling fruit into the basket but beware of the rotten fruit, bounce them into the trash can instead. Pass each level by collecting a certain amount of fruit within the time limit. Rarer fruits are worth more points. You lose if you run out of time, or if you bounce too many rotten fruit into the basket.​

Genesis of Dreams by WinglessPenny64 is an 8-bit platformer game made for Nintendo Game Boy.

In this game, you need to follow Alex and Max as they try to get the ‘Elegems’ back, while also saving the rulers of the mystical planet Genesis.