The German language article „Deutsche zocken wieder auf alten Kult-Computern“ (Germans rediscover their retro computers), published on the website of newspaper „Die Welt„, mentions both Protovision and our Jake (JTR), who (very briefly) explains what „emulator“ means. 😉

http://www.protovision.games/press/press.php?language=en#misc

Tags: Press, Scene

News for our press section: Tim Jakob Chen-Voos (aka JTR) twaddles (in the Disk Magazine Scene World #21) amongst other things about his beginnings in the C64 scene, how he tried to write his first assembler programs on paper and without a computer, about Pac It and other upcoming Protovision games as well as about DMAgic.

Tags: Press, Scene

The Spanish language Commodore Plus website has taken a close look at our jump’n’runs It’s Magic and It’s Magic 2. If you speak Spanish, go and read it! Maybe a good opportunity to check out our press section. If you know of any other reviews or articles about Protovision and our games, please let us know through our contact form. We would love to complete our collection.

Tags: Games, It's Magic, It's Magic 2, Press

In the current issue of the German diskmag Digital Talk you will find another review of Jim Slim. The disk image is available as a free download. Please note that this test is only available in German language.  

Download the disk image of Digital Talk #94 here:
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=107982

Tags: Games, Jim Slim, Press

In a seven-minutes segment of the German local TV programme center.tv to the Commodore 64, the editor of the German retro magazine RETURN Frank Erstling talks about old times, the magazine, but also new stuff. Between some C64 hard- and software you will find our newest game Jim Slim as decoration.

Those who missed the show can see it now on YouTube – unfortunately the quality of the clip is not the best.

(The video isn’t available anymore)

Tags: Jim Slim, Press

We gave our website a facelift. A new addition is the press section where you can find many game reviews, interviews etc. We have also made some optical and structural improvements. Have fun looking around!

Tags: Homepage, Press

Issue 58 of the diskmag Vandalism News was released by Onslaught and Wrath Designs at Syntax 2011 in Australia.

Protovision wise you can find the following in this issue’s “Mini-Market” chapter:

• Ultimate Newcomer entering Independent Games Festival!
• Protovision soon in the pipe
• RR-Net MK3 PrototypeDownload Vandalism News #58 from CSDb.

Tags: Games, Newcomer, Press

Issue 21 of the German print magazine Retro includes a nicely written review of our game Jim Slim. The magazine can be ordered from here.

Tags: Games, Jim Slim, Press

C64 games are not necessarily the subject of the German language gamers blog truegamer.de.

Nonetheless, blogger Flow has dedicated a retro feature to Protovision under the slogan „The country needs new C64 games“, in which he introduces Protovision and describes some selected games. Thank you for this!

Tags: Press

The scene gives us two diskmags released on the same day:

In Scene World #17 the chapter „Game News“ features some facts on Protovision’s game projects. However, due to the issue being massively delayed, the chapter’s content is around one year old. Anyway, welcome back, Scene World!

Vandalism News #57 again offers a „Mini-Market“, an actually quite big chapter about new developments on C64 games and hardware. In there, Hoild explains some reasons about the delay of Ultimate Newcomer, and reveals some details about the massive amount of work that went into it.
In the Opinion Poll chapters you can read people’s thoughts about the „Gaming Renaissance“ on C64.
Last but not least, some Protovision titles are in the Game Charts.

Tags: Games, Newcomer, Press, Scene

The following magazines contain reviews of our game Jim Slim:

• Retro Gamer Issue 92 (Retro Gamer Sizzler, rating: 91%!)
• Digital Talk #92 (German)
• Lotek 64 #37 (German)
• RETURN Issue 8 (Summer 2011) (German) („must have“)

Tags: Games, Jim Slim, Press

Edition 51 of the English pdf, text, seq, d64 and html magazine is available. This issue has kindly been dedicated to us. In this issue you will find:

• News: Protovision Release Jim Slim
• Reviews: Stroke World, Cascade, It’s Magic, It’s Magic 2, Bomb Mania, Ice Guys, Metal Dust, Jim Slim.
• Interview with Protovision: JTR, Poison and MacGyver
• Get it from www.commodorefree.com.

Tags: Bomb Mania, Cascade, Games, Ice Guys, It's Magic, It's Magic 2, Jim Slim, Metal Dust, Press, Stroke World

The good news about the release of Jim Slim has already been published by a number of websites.
We are especially pleased about the news in the latest issue of the famous consoles magazine M! Games.
Issue 18 of Retro Hunter Show by Sven Vößing contains a video review.
Thorben Rumb has also released a short review at gamgea.com.
In addition, H.T.W has dedicated an article to the game in the German C64-Wiki.
If you understand German, have a look!

Direct links (in German language):

• M! Games 7/2011 (announcement only)
• Retro Hunter #18
• gamgea.comDirect link (in English language):
• C64-Wiki article

Tags: Games, Jim Slim, Press

Ultimate Newcomer’s last build was sent to the 13th Independent Games Festival competition on the 18th of October. It was accepted, and is part of the Official Entry listing.

Competition finalists will be selected and announced later this year for various categories (Excellence in Design, Technical Excellence, Audience Award, etc.). The winners will be revealed in March 2011.

Tags: Games, Newcomer, Press

A Newcomer project history article made it to front page news at independent games portal
"Play This Thing", on the 20th of October.
Direct link.

Tags: Games, Newcomer, Press

The German language console mag "GamePro" published an article entitled "Neue Spiele auf alten Konsolen" ("New games on old consoles") in their current issue (10/2010). This report is about homebrew developing labels.
You will find information on game projects from Protovision and Psytronik for the C64, next to interviews with Milo Mundt (MacGyver) from Protovision and Jason Mackenzie (Kenz) from Psytronik Software. The third in the row is Brandon Cobb from Super Fighter Team, who has some bits to tell about their productions for Sega Mega Drive und Atari Lynx.

The article is available as download in PDF format at www.protovision.games/press/files/milo_interview_gamepro_10_10.pdf.

Thanks to GamePro magazine for their permission to offer it publicly.
To find out more about GamePro have a look at www.gamepro.de.

Tags: Press

Oliver Foerster (Poison) created an excellent trailer for our jump’n’run hit It’s Magic 2 by Stardust Productions. It was part of the trailer show „Neue Spiele auf alten Konsolen“ („New games on old consoles“), published in the German language consoles mag „GamePro“ on the cover DVD of the current issue (10/2010).

Now the trailer can finally be watched online in full length for your enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoawMH3pAa8.

For more information on the game, please see our games section.

Tags: Games, It's Magic 2, Press