:) i havent actually counted tho i check about all new releases on csdb myself since the c64 was my " first love " followed by an Atari ST and STe later (cant even remember if it was stfm or st first) but since the mister fpga i had the chance to discover so many stuff i never even heard about . That little box is like a computer museum where i can fiddle around instead of watch-the-box on display tho to most who have it its probably an arcade cabinet.
Its hard to count but look at places like https://zxart.ee/ , https://www.msxdev.org/ , https://www.indieretronews.com/ , or the forums (denial hall of light, Mister fpga, Atari ,, etc ...) even if you count those silly gamejam games or the onehour thing hokuto force likes to pop out im not quite sure the c64 has the most, certainly not the most finished games a year anymore.
Not that it matters, every week stuff gets out for plenty of platforms the only thing thats sorry to me there is that the amiga-boom isnt countered with an Atari boom, the old rivalry seems to have lost fire and if you look at Atari forums its mostly engineering and tinkering, if games get released its almost all for the XL series , which i dont really have a past with
more = merrier tho its amazing how much life these things have after 40 + years
i cant say exactly when the c64 arrived to the kid but it certainly must have been early 80s so im probably around longer than a lot of present day csdb groups lol but im not too tribal about it. you never forget your first kiss so to speak and im still recovering from the culture shock of spending the first 48 hours trying to find the programming language on the Atari ST which for some reason when i turned it on showed nothing but a little green desktop ( that was a shock if ever i had one ...) broke fast got an STe but after the jag flopped i played a game called warlords and panzer general at a friends house and its been pc - i just "recently" re-acquired a c64 b/c i couldnt figure out wether a sid tune sounded real or not as it sounds different in goattracker, sidplayer and vice (and indeed on real hw on a tv again as i found out again) but i kinda dont use it b/c im scared to break it , mostly for stuff the mister cant handle like easyflash games (briley for instance) and testing out personal dabbles like the game we'd like to present by 2150 in early beta access for only $99.99
I like the smorgasbord the mister presents since i have it, even the consoles even if those leave little room for dabbling but the old machine that never die will always take first place
(whew ... my fingers went on while my head was in some other places sorry for that)
the post-2020 era for 8bit computers is really something the kid would never even have dreamed of and im really curious to see what all they come up with, stuff like metal slug for the STe or proxima3 for the amiga and here run 'n gun and briley and all that and even this seuck game that pushes the concept of seuck-game
i devour it
so feed me more heheh
