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Bounces for the Commodore 64

Sprite Castle 046: Bounces

Pick a warrior, put on your fric-toe boots, grab your slugdomium sphere snatcher, and do battle in the leisure dome in this week’s combat sport of the future by Denton Designs, BOUNCES!

Sprite Castle Plays Bounces: YouTube
Sprite Castle Plays Tron Cycle Clones: YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Video: 8-Bit Show and Tell – JRPG Menus (YouTube Link)
Link: Obliterator918’s CBM Disk Transfer Benchmark
Game: Poppy Locky
Game:
Zeta Wing
Coming Soon: Funfair Inc
Coming Soon:
Another World (port to c64)
Coming Soon:
The Empire Strikes Back

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Sprite Castle 045: Mancopter

Steal fish from pelicans and mermaids while avoiding squids, dodo birds, sharks and aggressive racers in pedal-powered personal aircraft in this week’s wacky game from DataSoft, MANCOPTER!

Sprite Castle Plays Mancopter: YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Video: 8-Bit Show & Tell / Commodore 64 Programmer’s Reference Guide (YouTube)
Link: The Retro Hour – The Games That Weren’t
Game: GridPix (itch.io)
Game: Planet Balls
Game: Quick War (indieRetroNews)
Game: Miner 2019er (indieRetroNews)

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YDKF Episode 189: Joysticks

If you’ve ever wanted to hear a grown man talk about joysticks for over an hour, boy are you in luck! From old Atari joysticks to modern USB controllers, I run through all my favorites on this week’s You Don’t Know Flack. I also talk a bit about the MiST, supporting local arcades, and Retrobriting without Retrobrite.

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Yie Ar Kung-Fu arcade game at Arkadia Retrocade

Sprite Castle 043: Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Swords to the left of me! Nunchucks to the right! Become the Kung Fu master you were born to be in this week’s game, YIE AR KUNG-FU!

YouTube: Amigos Retro Gaming / Sprite Castle (Yie Ar Kung-Fu game play)
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Link: Brandon Stagg’s Stereo SID Configuration
Link: Twitter — @FixYourC64
Link: Dir Plus 4.0 (SD2IEC)
Link: SideKick64 (GitHub)
Link: NoSwearGamer’s Konami review (YouTube)

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Sprite Castle 042: Fix-It Felix, Jr

Use your magic hammer to fix the things Ralph wrecks in this week’s game, FIX-IT FELIX, JR!

Show Link: 8-Bit Show and Tell
Show Link: Growing up 80’s Podcast
Show Link: SmokerDore 64
Show Link: J-CIA (FPGA CIA Replacement)
Show Link: TwoBit Joystick Doubler
Show Link: PunyInform (Inform)
Show Link: Naddando (Game)
Show Link: The Last Amazon Trilogy (Game)
Show Link: Fix-It Felix, Jr. (Itch.io)

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