Death Escape II (2026) by BMO Studios for Atari 2600.
Your ship is stalled at the frontier, facing enemy drones that crash into you to drain your life-energy. Kill them all, break through, and dodge the Ball of Death that wipes out all 8 lives. Victory or perish.
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Death Escape I (2026) by BMO Studios for Atari 2600.
Eight lives to outgun an elite Otherworldly bodyguard. One laser hit ends it all, so dodge the Ball of Death and hit 250 points to win.
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Penult (2026) by Karl Garrison, Erin Cornell, Maggie Vogel for MS-DOS.
Faradur falls to Shadow Realm hordes. You, a simple villager, carry a fey companion’s pledge. Why you? Find the cause, save the kingdom. This CRPG rewrite runs on 4.77 MHz 8088s, CGA graphics and PC speaker tunes.
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Quake64 squeezes the 1996 first-person shooter onto the Commodore 64, though it’s more a tech demo than a full game right now.
Kweepa’s demake is an AI-generated project with no download available yet, so it’s one to keep an eye on rather than play today. You can follow its progress on his itch.io page.
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Alien Smash (2026) by RBG Entertainment for NES.
A single screen shooter now available as digital paid download. Lot’s of action and get mash up few enemies in one go for combo bonus.
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Expanse 2 from Quantum took fourth place at the Breakout party in August 2026.
The demo runs on the Commodore 64 and follows up on the group’s earlier work, though the source data doesn’t give details on what’s new or changed.
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A 5K Commodore 64 demo written entirely in BASIC, with no assembly.
Sprites in Motion, the first release from Harvey/AMID, packs 8 rotating sprites and 3-channel SID sound into a tiny program, all coded in C64Studio.
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GBA GB Maps turns a Game Boy Advance into a working satnav, a concept that was pure vaporware back at E3 2004 but is now a real cartridge.
The UK road network and 1.7 million real postcodes fit on a single 32 MB cartridge, and you can type in two postcodes to get turn-by-turn directions with distances. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap, with postcodes from the ONS Postcode Directory.
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SANDRA, a demo by Crazy Studio for the ZX Spectrum, took fourth place at the Undefined party in 2026.
The demo was released on 15 August 2026. It’s a compact piece of work for the classic 8-bit machine, and the party placement shows it held its own against the competition.
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Quantum’s Lollypop And Dots is a Commodore 64 intro that landed sixth place at the Breakout party in August 2026.
A typical C64 production, nice to watch.
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