|  Nathan's Journey: The Spinoff Before The Big Challenge | | Posted by Luca on 2022-03-31 |
 Just before the forthcoming release of the massive JRPG game Lykia - The Lost Island, the guys behind the scenes would love to present to you the main engine which will drive it onto the tracks of your Plus/4's board.
Lykia Prologue - Nathan's Journey is a short side story written by Olaf Nowacki, derived from what will be the main root of the official game, which will be released both on C64 and Plus/4, and both as freeware and commercially distributed on several media by Psytronik Software (2 disks, 4 sides) and Protovision (1MB cartridge for C64). The game fully runs in C64 FLI / Plus4 DFLI graphics, in order to match as far as possible the palette of classic 8/16bit consoles of the era. Playing it, you can learn how to manage at best the inventory, and handle some early clues to be solved.
Lykia Prologue - Nathan's Journey is the sophomore release of Puls4r, the supercrew composed by several skilled personalities coming from various well-known groups; they're people we've just seen in action before, in the previous games of the same Mad/BKN: KiCHY/ASN, 5tarbuck, also including c0zmo as SID musician, plus various additional companions of them all. So let's get a first taste of what they offer us now and what they will offer us in the future. |
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| | A Monumental Comeback: Bruce Lee Anniversary Edition! | | Posted by Csabo on 2022-03-28 |
 TCFS is back! (Is there anyone who doesn't know this name? Hmm, indeed there might be; in short: a much-celebrated and very prolific old-school Plus/4 scene developer, most famous for his rewrites of C64 games.) After 29 years, a new "converted" game is here: Bruce Lee Anniversary Edition. A true TCFS-style "conversion": this release is in fact a newly coded game, only using graphics and level design of the original. Considering that the Plus/4 does not have hardware sprites, it is no small achievement that the game is a "pixel-perfect" recreation.
Why Bruce Lee, you might ask? It's ranked high on many C64 top-lists ([1], [2]) with good reason: it's fun :-) The game is also noted for being one the first ones to combine platforming and beat 'em up elements.
You control Bruce Lee, as he collects lanterns, climbs nets, jumps across rooftops and delivers savage flying-kicks to his enemies. Besides the many obstacles and hazards, you must also deal with the black ninja and Yamo, who are constantly on your tail. You can play in the normal one and two player modes (where a second player controls Yamo), but the Plus/4 version also has an additional 3 player mode. Can you fight your way through the evil sorcerer's lair? Go play now!
And finally the cherry on top: check out Retro Sprite Workshop, a new Windows utility by TCFS, developed specifically for this game. It allows anyone to extract sprites or characters from screenshots exported from any emulator. What a birthday gift to us, enjoy! |
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