Monday, November 26, 2012

One man's quest to bring your favorite indie games to the Commodore 64

Super Bread Box

The Commodore 64 may have made its debut back in 1982, but if Paul Koller has his way, you'll still be able to play new games on it for the foreseeable future. Koller has turned his passion for the C64 into an interesting hobby: porting modern indie games to the ancient platform. It all started in 2010 when he released a demo of Terry Cavanagh's VVVVVV, and it continued with the release of C64anabalt, a port of Adam Saltsman's iPhone hit Canabalt. Now he's working on a C64 version of Super Crate Box — and soon you'll even be able to buy it on a cartridge.


Koller says that he's been interested in creating things for the C64 since he was a child in the mid-eighties, though he never really took things too seriously. He created what he...


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