It's time to go down your local alley and have a game of bowling. The game is viewed from behind your bowler at a slight elevated angle. Before you bowl you can move your bowler left or right to get the perfect position. There is an option to choose which angle to bowl by pressing the + or - key and also which hand you want by pressing R or L. To bowl the ball when you are happy, you move the joystick forward and press the fire button to release the ball. You can't release the ball while not running. Don't go forward too far or it's a foul. The usual scoring is worked out by the computer. Here's to scoring 300.
1943: One Year After is a vertical-scrolling shooter heavily inspired by 1942 (even a carrier take-off sequence is included). The player flies a Lockheed P-38 Lightning over the island-dotted Pacific during the World War 2, fighting against Japanese aircraft. You may collect powerups and perform defensive loop maneuver to avoid enemy fire (up to 3 times) - you have only three lives left. Player's progress is tracked on a map (left side of the screen).
Gyropod is a one or two player shooter for the Commodore 64. The player controls a space ship, the Galaxy Ranger. The ship's mission is to locate and eradicate every planet in an alien system. These planets are defended by waves of fanatical defenders who must be overcome.
You are a private detective and you have been asked to rescue the daughter of a millionaire and your investigation has brought you to a complex of ten tower blocks. Gumshoe is a platform game where a small part of the block is shown and the screen scrolls when you move in all directions. You have to navigate the various floors of the block to find the girl using ladders, escalators which change direction every few seconds and elevators that move up and down various levels but can't be shot from. There are also rubbish chutes and when entered they transport you to another part of the block.
This edutainment game for the Commodore 64 required players to spell specific words in order to progress through the titular Wizard's cave. Successfully spelling words gives the player name-brand adhesive bandages useful for treating snake bites and scorpion stings. Failing to spell words correctly causes the wizard to drain energy from your flashlight. The game ends when you run out of bandages, run out of light, or if you can successfully collect all four crystals and escape the cave.
The game impressively relied on the Commodore 64's ability to produce recorded voice clips. Whether it did so successfully is a matter of debate.
Showdown is a 1 or 2-player action shooter for the Commodore 64, released in 2020. The game is inspired by a host of older titles with the same theme, going all the way back to Gun Fight from 1975.
You play a cowboy out to win a fierce gun duel. The first one to outwit and knock down the opponent 5 times is the winner of the duel.
Giddy-up and get ready to fight!
"Wild Wood" is a fast-paced, platform adventure game where players will take on the role of Hare as he journeys in search of his ancestral home, the Ancient Wild Wood Warrens.
You will need all of Hare's superior agility and speed to survive the treacherous trails and outmanoeuvre numerous enemies and hungry predators.
Do you have what it takes to enter the Wild Wood and live to tell the tale?
You have to save a wise man who is kept prisoner in a deep dungeon by a malevolent Ifreet and who is the only one who can rid the Golden City of said Ifreet.
Blagger goes to Hollywood to steal the latest movie of famed director Speilbum. But his attempts are thwarted by a wide variety of movie characters, like Tarzan, James Bond or several comics book characters.
Nobby the Aardvark is a platform game. The player takes the role of Nobby, an aardvark who is hungry for ants. The game's plot involves Nobby trying to get to Antopia, a place where there are ants everywhere, so Nobby can eat his belly full.
Four Player Competitive Strategy Game
Taking inspiration from M.U.L.E., a classic strategy game from 1983, Space Moguls pits four competitors (the computer handles any competitors not being controlled by humans) in an off-world production/trading strategy challenge. Whoever ends the game with the most cash and assets is declared the winner!
The game is played on a fixed screen hex grid of land cells with a central town in the middle. There is a river meandering through the land that changes the properties of the land cells. There are various types of land which each produce different amounts of items such as food, energy, ore, materials or rare material. The items are necessary to expand and survive!
One to four players can compete in Match or Tournament Play, with individual handicaps. Wind, temperature and ground condition can be entered or randomly determined by the computer. When playing, the left half of the screen shows the situation from the player's point of view, and the right half shows a map of the course. The player can select between different clubs. For each shot, you can individually select the direction, the angle of attack, and the spin. The strength of the shot must be carefully timed.