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Whirlybirds by Puls4r is a technically amazing maze game made for Commodore Plus/4.

In this game, you can move around with a joystick or cursor keys. You will explore the level and find the three Christmas elves. As a gift messenger, you have a lot to do at this time of year. And now you need to find those scatterbrained elves, too. There are only a few days left until you must deliver the presents. You need to find them quickly and remind them to take care of it or the winter festival will be a disaster this year.

Grapple Skull by Elastiskalinjen is a short Halloween game made for PICO-8.

In this game, you play as a skull by grappling on the pumpkins flying in the space. You will shoot and aim to move around and earn points. There will left/right (L,R) indicators which will show you the direction. Avoid the ghosts, they will come in your way. Use ‘d-pad’ to move and ‘a’ and ‘b’ to grapple and move.

Synthia 2 by Elanor Burns and TMD is a retro indie game made for the Commodore 64.

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Guide a robot and try your best to survive the challenges. There’ll be a lot of puzzles to solve, enemies to avoid or defeat.

Shazabi by AndiDev is a short dungeon crawler puzzle game made for PICO-8.

In this game, you will enter the catacombs of the “Cantina of the Eight” and look for the eighth-artifact. You will rescue the Cantina residents kidnapped by the Zoo. The whole game is made up of 4 levels. You will find keys and fight snakes, bears, bats. Watch out for your lives as well. They run out quickly.​

Clash of Tanks by Ptath of Gonwonlane is a strategy game made for Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

In this game, you will go through epic tank battles. The game consists of three parts:

Garage: This game can be played by up to four players at a time. You can create new players in the garage, change player names, save individual players to tape. But the garage is primarily used to display the tank tree.

Battle configuration: The battle pits the blue and red teams against each other. Up to two players can play in each team. In the battle configuration, you must first choose which player will play for the blue team and which for the red team.

Battle: The battle itself takes the form of a turn-based strategy. The winner is the team that can either destroy all the enemy tanks or capture the enemy base.​

Jungle Ping by Heracleum is an arcade action game made for PICO-8. It is the demake of the classic arcade game Jungle King by Taito from 1982.

In the original game, everything was predetermined, making long plays safer for those who memorized everything. In this version, you can start directly from a specific level of difficulty and stage. Good for training and figuring out how to play at a specific point of the game. The game is divided into four different stages:

Stage 1 – Swinging: jungle and swinging vines (with monkeys on harder levels). Timing is crucial while jumping from vine to vine.

Stage 2 – Underwater: swimming in a crocodile/ alligator-infested river. Stab the crocs but stay away when their mouth is fully opened.

Stage 3 – Boulders: running uphill with falling rocks and boulders. You can jump or duck. In some cases, you could even just run below the boulders.

Stage 4 – Cannibals: a camp with cannibals where our hero’s girlfriend dangles above a boiling cauldron.

Keep an eye on the Timer: It starts at 5000, but it speeds up in the last stage and if it reaches zero it’s an instant game over. It means your girl ended up in the cauldron.

Elf Spirit Hunters by earok is a short action game made for Commodore Amiga OCS. This game is inspired by David Crane’s ‘Ghostbusters’.

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In this game, you have to free the world of the last remaining Halloween Spirits before Christmas. You have 24 days to repay the bank $5500 and recapture all 12 loose Halloween spirits. You will hire elves from the shop. At least two are needed to carry the spirit chests. You will buy spirit chests from the shop. The more you have, the fewer trips back to the north pole are needed when you’ve captured spirits. Also buy some batteries from the shop. The more batteries you have, the less likely the beams are to run out during gameplay. You need to bring the Elves closer together to force the Spirit close to the chest. Press action to launch a capture heart from the spirit chest. If you’re successful, the Spirit will be captured. If you miss, one or more of your team may be injured.​

Dino Run by Phaze101 is a simple game made for Commodore Amiga OCS. The game is a clone based on Google Chrome’s Dino Run, hence the same name.

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You need to survive by avoiding obstacles and jumping. Touching an object will give you a “Game Over”.

Unified by Zelax and New Generation is an Atari XL/XE demo released at Silly Venture 2022.

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Sprite Snake by Oziphantom is an (almost) endless maze game made for Commodore 64.

While the game is not amazing, it has a technical purpose, which is possibly more amazing. The game is also known as “Somebody challenged me to make Snake in a sprite”.