Joachim Froholt

Vi kjøpte skateboard i Sverige og smuglet det til Norge. Og så brukte vi det på plenen og skjønte ikke helt hva som var greia.

Skate or Die på Commodore 64.

Gøy med retrogamingreferanser, åpenbart noen som har peiling på hva de driver med! Usikker på hvor de fikk den mafiagreia fra, da.

Da jeg hadde praksis på skolen der rundt år 2000, husker jeg det sto malt over hele veien "End of Erotic".

Today we're releasing two Mia Hamm Soccer prototypes for #Nintendo64, dated 01/08/00 + 01/09/00. Both seem pretty much final builds with no noticeable differences, potentially just missing bug fixes. If you notice anything different - please get in touch!

www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/08/mia-...

Yes.

These things are hard. And that is actually the point. You struggle and stress, and you do the best thing that you can. And that's what people remember. Your struggle is the thing that create the value.

Getting an AI to "help" defeats the purpose entirely. It makes it worthless.

Elsker at å ha gründet er et verb.

Men sånn ellers tror jeg norske gründere egentlig bør jobbe ti dager i uken, ikke syv. Alle andre, også. Da vinner vi.

Congrats!

And I love the "screenshot". Such lovely pixels!

Wings of Fear - demo V3.01 by Roartj Retro - Shoot em up

My friend Roar released a new version of his Wings of Fear demo for the Amiga. It's now an AGA game, and has come a long way since the first demo. Lots of great pixel graphics. Find it here:

Here's part 3 of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the Knights compilation tapes for the Sharp MZ-80A. This particular part of his series looks only at the RPG "Wizard's Castle" and it seems it's a pretty decent early example of the genre.

#sharpmz #mz80a

– Maybe we should do an updated version! - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern, the creators of Super Cars.

@retrogamingpappa.bsky.social spoke with Andrew Morris and Shaun Southern of Magnetic Fields about Super Cars, and both expressed interest in going back to the series. Read the interview here:

Destiny (1985) by Destiny Software was a PC adventure game with RPG elements for the C64 and Apple II. A mighty king sent out the call for a brave soul to inherit his kingdom by slaying a terrible dragon long ago, but died before that heir could be found. Now it is your turn! (a flesh wound thread)

I showed my Minecraft world (that I've been playing in on & off since the alpha versions) to my niece.

- Woow! You're the best Minecraft player ever, even better than any of my classmates!
- I've just played it for a long time. Since before you were born.
- Since before dad was born, even?
- Errrr

Fredrik Liljegren on the creation of Pinball Dreams - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with one of the founders of DICE about their first game.

We posted an interview with Fredrik Liljegren, one of the founders of Digital Illusions/DICE, about their first game:

Pluss, det er jo mer eller mindre umulig å ikke bli hektet av Stardew Valley hvis man først prøver det, og da leter man gjerne etter spill som kan tilby noe tilsvarende. Jeg tror viktigheten av "cozy"-biten overvurderes litt (Graveyard Keeper var jo et av de første Stardew-ish spillene med suksess).

Legends of the games industry: Jim Sachs - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with pixel artist and programmer Jim Sachs about everything from Defender of the Crown to virtual aquariums.

American Jim Sachs is one of the true greats in the area of classic pixel art. He is known for his work on the Amiga, where he was responsible for the graphics in one of the platform’s most important system sellers, Defender of the Crown, as well as Ports of Call.

spillhistorie.no/2024/09/13/l...

Bad Apple on a Commodore 64..
On a single disk side, 170kilobytes! 🤯😱
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NhaVnkNBAz8
#badapple #commodore64 #demoscene

I grieve a friend, Roberta Vaughan, who passed on today. She commissioned this piece from me: 'Colossal Cave'. When I look at it now, I think about how perhaps her spirit continues to adventure on, somewhere in eternity. Either way, this little bit of beauty simply wouldn't exist without her. 💔

Oh no, I really wanted to see where you were going with that solution! :)

Just testing out a new game by my friend VaclavPe with a view to potentially becoming a Sharpworks release in the future :)

#mz700

Title screen for Send 1. Programmed by Yoshihiro Sonoda (ZAT), of ZAT Soft.

Send 1 on the Sharp MZ-700.

Send 1 on the Sharp MZ-700.

Send 1 on the Sharp MZ-700.

Some screenshots from Send 1 on the Sharp MZ-700. A simple but fun space shooter where you need to kill the alien ships that are ejected from the big mothership. This was actually the first game I ever played on my own Sharp (an MZ-80A, so I didn't get the colours).

Our game Roguecraft is an award-winning dungeon crawler turn-based roguelike with retro roots and pixel-perfect turn-based action. Now coming to #steam 🎉

🎯Wishlist on Steam: thalamus.link/roguecraft

#turnbasedthursday #roguelike #indiedev #indiegamedev

I hope Wizard & Golf is actually the name of one game, not two...

Indeed!

Roger Dean showing his Shadow of the Beast artwork.

Me and @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social just spent an hour chatting with a really nice British gentleman about his work in the games industry (and some other things). Very honoured that he agreed to spend time with us.

The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders We spoke with historian Andrea Contato about The Sumerian Game from 1964.

I interviewed @andreacontato.bsky.social about The Sumerian Game, an ancestor of today's city builders. You can read about it here:

Absolutely. And don't read up on them before playing the first one. Just trust that they are good.

I randomly stopped scrolling here, and then took another look at what I was seeing.

I liked it a lot.

Save 20% on Two Point Museum on Steam Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

I managed to just buy one game during the Steam summer sale; Two Point Museum. I'm 75% sure that it won't end up in my hall of shame. I really loved TP Hospital, and I'd really love another game like that. Pretty sure it'll end up being one of my main games of 2025.

These are pretty amazing!

Boni in Bat Hell! by SteveTyson ZX Spectrum

I just released my 2nd ZX Spectrum game. its a 20 level platform game, a kind of tribute to the Danterrifik games that I love. it's a free download if you have a Spectrum or emulator. Use 128k mode for music:- stevetyson.itch.io/boni