Post by Sparky-D in River Barrage [Commodore 64] comments

Viewing post in River Barrage [Commodore 64] comments

Yes, talking about retro gaming is always fun, also for me. I've been into this topic for a long time too, actually, since I got my first Atari-2600 back in the year 1982 (before i had a Philips pong-machine, but it had no interchangeable game-modules), then the first Commodore-64 in 1984, some years later an Amiga-500 and so on.

In the last 10 years, at least 500 games have been released for the C64, if that's enough, so i am sure, no other retro-system will come anywhere close. If you take a look at the website "Lemon64", for example, where newer C64 games have been added since the beginning of this year and the archive has already grown from around 4700 games before, to over 7270 games now. It's crazy. Looks like, the C-64 will soon be mainstream again. :-) *lol*

I'm just afraid, that this big retro-theme is going a bit beyond the scope here, because this page is actually about the new C64-game "River Barrage". So, maybe we should get back to the topic.

Catham Joker87 days ago

im not sure thats a grand issue tho it is a bit offtopic, any author getting buzz on a feed thats instructive or contrsuctive, friendly in nature and not negative cant possibly not not benefit from that ... seventh axiom of catzlawick

i use indieretronews a lot but also the ones that source it like https://www.youtube.com/@Saberman i check csdb almost daily and often refer lemon on my mistercompatlist on the site, other than that RGN and Retro Gaming Dino and up til lest year some french guy doing hour-long videos on new c64 releases .. theres more ofcourse , but since im on the mister the world went beyond c64 and Atari ST ... the 2600 is so long ago i can barely visualize paddling it as a small kid but i do remember yars revenge cleary, the C64 came early 80s and i bought the ST when that broke with my own savings b/c i was allowed to ... a friend of mine had an Amiga so its not a strange machine, im one of the few west-europeans who owned a jag (imported from the USA back then for 14000 francs with cybermorph lol) and right after to PC, pentium 60, its only since like the year when they forgot covid that i have a c64 again and recently an Atari ST, i dont really have money and space for much more but the mister FPGA takes care of most others including obscure systems only inufuto (im sure you know the name) still seems to program for.

Just like SEUCK gets a lot of love and ... can i say extensions rather than plugins it would be great to see someone doing something like RPG maker64 , "using the briley engine" or something like that , theres adventure creators a few but nothing like that. If im not mistaken one of the guys from river barrage has a new game out already, i got 59 notifications on the bell here so im a bit behind. Sadly there's more to life than 1980s and 1990s gear

Catham Joker87 days ago

hm btw , i dont wanna start a sizing contest or something but https://www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4648 ... it all depends on wether you add gamejamgames and other stuff i guess but if taken a purely statistical approach i really think by '24 the ZX might give the 64 a run for the money in sheer numbers ... that said, if you stillread and reply i dont check these everyday (i check youtube like never) but i will sometime between this and half september lol (i really dont wannastart a spelling contest i just got curious b/c i know the numbers like on planetemmu run in the 25000 for a c64 or something but thats probably including doubles ... ST/amiga runs closer to 5-6k but the ZX has had a boom in the last decade.

Its like the jag had some 50 or so titles and after they opensourced it now around 300-400 (i think, i wont put my fiver on exact numbers)

But a lot of these ZX releases, just like a lot of the 64 releases are just lightweight afternoon tea coding or jams ...its kind hard to measure "full games only"

right anyway there i went again, take care, see you on another game or something (or if you reply still, no need to i assure you, dont wann hog TND's light by growing a tree over it here)

Sparky-D87 days ago (5 edits) (+1)

I think, that the comments here should mainly be about the game in question (that's why I mentioned the off-topic thing) and not about retro gaming in general etc. :) A quick last word on the numbers. Let's first take a look at the total number of games for the C64 by looking at GameBase64. There are currently around 30.000 games in the current GB64 v19

https://gb64.com/search.php?h=0

You can definitely subtract around 10.000 from that number, because these are only little basic-programs and not really finalized games, but the range of games for the C64 is definitely still very very huge then. I then searched the CSDB for all new games, released for the C64, just in the last 15 years and the search-engine found exactly 1.300 games, released since 2009 and many of them are also really good. You can also subtract some of these, because some games have different versions, but still the result will be over 1.000 new games then, since 2009. I have added this search-result as an image, because it doesn't seem to work, to directly link to the search-results of the CSDB's advanced-search-engine.

I don't know what the Spectrum looks like, but it's hard to imagine, that more new games have been released for it, in the same time. Possible is everything, but i don't think, this will be the case.

But whatever, now it should be about "River Barrage" again, I think. Otherwise Richard maybe will wonder, what this topic is all about here, on the site of his River Barrage game. *lol*

Catham Joker73 days ago

looks like i have an expert groupie on my hands. In all honesty i cant say its just from what i follow since i have a mister (around 9 minths or so now) ... maybe a year. i dont do time very well, it feels like the zx bedroomcoders are definitely on par or pop out more than the c64 in recent years (full games-like)

but yes. Lets call it even hehe see you on a next feed perhaps

itch.io

Viewing post in River Barrage [Commodore 64] comments