The Blast Annual 2020 is a multi-format gaming publication that celebrates all aspects of the retro community across two huge volumes – featuring lots of game and hardware reviews, along with plenty of special feature articles.

The Blast Annual Volume 2 is spanning over 200 pages and presented as a very high quality hard back cover book. This is available to pre-order at blastannual.com now. Order your copy fast, you won’t be disappointed.

A portrait of Protovision as a publisher of new C64 games – that’s the topic of the current edition of RETURN TV!
Showcasing nine exemplary titles from almost 25 years, the two moderators illustrate the evolution of Protovision.
On the occasion of the release of Outrage, they have invited its programmer and graphic designer for a video interview. Bernd Buchegger answers questions about the extraordinary development story of this long lost run ’n‘ gun by Cosmos Designs.
Enjoy this almost one hour long video – with lots of background information and nice anecdotes!

With her latest Briley Witch Chronicles video, Sarah Jane Avory once more shows her skills in game design, but also as a story teller with a sense of humor.

#BrileyWitch #C64 #RPG progress: mixing a potion… I mean, what could possibly go wrong..? pic.twitter.com/17toIxhfJr

— Sarah Jane Avory (@SarahJaneAvory) May 13, 2021

Following the successful crowdfunding campaign for the Protopad, we have been enthusiastically working away on the project making further refinements to ensure that this controller will be the best it can be.
During this time, we found that we were not satisified with controller case that we had originally intended to use and are currently evaluating superior alternatives. This has set the scheduled release back a little.

Stay tuned for further updates this year!

Issue 44 of the German language RETURN Magazine features a very positive review of our Glide and Gun title Wormhole – written by Denis Karimani aka Remute. Thanks for that, guys!

• RETURN Issue 44 Trailer
• Details and order

The ZZap! 64 Annual 2021 has started to make its way to backers of the Kickstarter campaign. This awesome book includes strong positive reviews of four Protovision titles:

• MW Ultra (94% – Sizzler award)
• Zeta Wing (90% – Sizzler award)
• Planet X2.1 (80%)
• Wormhole (74%)

This high-quality publication is available to order from Fusion Retro Books now.

The eagerly anticipated release of Monstro Giganto is available for pre-order from our friends at RGCD. This fun arcade style beat 'em up features large well animated PETSCII graphics by Lobo/Protovision. The game package is beautifully presented with eye-popping cover art and manual illustrations – also from Lobo.

Pre-order cartridge from RGCD Shop!
Digital Download will be available soon at itch.io.

Lotek64 conducts a unique review of two of our award winning games – Zeta Wing and Soul Force – in order to discuss whether they bring anything new to the shoot 'em up genre. The insightful report looks back at notable shooters from the past and identifies how both Zeta Wing and Soul Force push the boundaries on the C64.
You can read this article here – Shooters on C64: Little room for improvement.

In episode 53 of his vlog Beyond The Scanlines hellfire64 took a closer look at our shooter Soul Force.
With creating this video review he did an excellent job! Not only he captured from a real C64. He also did well in explaining what the strengths of this game are.
Watch this episode on YouTube:

Arnold Blueml (Arny of Cosmos Designs) posted an interesting article highlighting how persistence is one of the key ingredients to success. Using the recently completed Run and Gun Outrage – available from Protovision here – Arnold’s inspirational post is a wonderful journey of bringing a game to release after 30 years!
Read the article on LinkedIn.