Joachim Froholt

Adventure Game Studio doesn’t support shaders or effects. But those limitations motivate you to get creative to bring your vision to life.

I can't remember the last time a new C64 release kept me up until 3 in the morning. Steel Ranger 2 just did exactly that. Amazing game, inspired by Turrican and Metroid. protovision.itch.io/steel-ranger-2

We published an interview with David Deen, who worked on the original Tropico (among other games).

Welcome to #WishlistWednesday! I have been focused on debugging my #WIP #CRPG / textadventure hybrid called Cyberganked this year. Please add to your wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/880930/C...

Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

Had to repost this because of a mistake in the original post. But we've got a great little interview with Robert Bowling, done by @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social . Read it here: spillhistorie.no/2026/10/08/a... This bit is a highlight:

I interviewed John Victor, founder and president of Program Design Inc., one of the earliest publishers of educational software. PDI created dozens of educational software titles and games for Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET and 64, TRS-80, Apple II, and TI computers. Video version: youtu.be/t8vYoJTd1vg

We've got a very cool interview with Microsoft veteran Stuart Moulder, who was responsible for signing and publishing Age of Empires. We talk about AoE I & II, Ensemble Studios and the current Microsoft cuts.

Bubble Bobble, Amiga 500 with 1084S display. A great game to play with your pal after school! 100 increasingly devious levels, easy to learn, surprisingly hard to master and that incredible theme tune still refuses to leave your head. Photo shot in my studio.

Graphics BASIC (1983) A double feature today, as one didn't really work without the other. We see a programming example from Graphics BASIC by Ron Gilbert and Tom McFarlane. The tiny listing and the image it produces. If you've ever tried to do graphics in standard BASIC, this'll blow your mind.

My new game SP13KTRA is out! 🌈 8 racers, 8 tracks, 8 songs, real 3D, and it all fits in 13K. Play in your browser on desktop or phone: mouse, keyboard, gamepad or touch. @newgrounds.com @wavedash.com @itch.io @github.com #js13k #gamedev

All the Adventures turns to Australia and their most succesful home-grown computer, the Microbee. I give the story of how the Microbee came to be and explore one of the games published by their software branch. bluerenga.blog/2026/09/18/e...

My #sharptember project this year is trying to finish my walkthrough of Ropoko before @sharpworks.bsky.social releases the English version on tape.

A few screenshots for #Sharptember - This is the English language version of Tookato's excellent graphic adventure game "Ropoko" for the Sharp MZ-700, coming very soon now on physical cassette tape from Sharpworks :)

Way ahead of everyone. Invest 100 billion dollars in my Ko-fi now please.

Roguecraft DX from @badgerpunch.com is finally out on the PC! I wrote about it in Norwegian here. TLDR; it is deceptively simple, but if you don't treat it seriously and consider your choices carefully, you'll never win.

Happy #Sharptember to all those who celebrate. #RetroComputing

Do it. #sharptember

Five days until Roguecraft DX is out!🤯 It started life on the #Amiga and ended up here. Chunky pixels, handcrafted rooms, and tentacled Eldritch horrors. A wishlist before launch day genuinely helps a small team like ours ❤️ Wishlist: thalamus.link/roguecraft #ScreenshotSaturday #roguelike

Oh, this is cool! The manual/newsletter alone would be worth the price to me. There's a very nice guide on how to get these games running, too 🙂

We had the best king. King Harald: I'm going to Antartica in february, to visit the station we've got there. Queen Sonja: Which I consecrated ten years ago. King Harald: Yes, it was named after you, wasn't it? Queen Sonja: No, it was not. It's called Troll.

Our August Commodore 64 archive update is here, with 1 new GTW entry, 15 game updates and a fantastic batch of 15 previously unpreserved Grolier/Mindflight titles recovered thanks to MalcSeventyFour. Another busy month for C64 preservation! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/gtw6...

We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.

The HUMANKIND 2's live-action announcement trailer was filmed at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia using real actors, practical sets, and custom-made props created specifically for the production. We will be sharing behind-the-scenes images from the shoot soon.

Commodore is proud to release the Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection for PC & Consoles in partnership with our friends at @antstreamarcade.bsky.social and @team17.com. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4870460/... #gamescom #retrogaming @pixel-arcadia.bsky.social

I reviewed Theropods at @spillhistorie.no (in Norwegian). It's quite lovely. Dinos, puzzles and lush pixels. A bit like the old Gobliiins games in a way.

We posted an interview with Kristjan Hatlelid today. It's about his work in games (he did audio programming and music for a bunch of classics in the eighties and nineties). He also reveals that he's making new games now, and a sequel to Frantic Freddie. Interview by @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social .

A new, really ambitious #homebrew port of #Wolfenstein 3D has landed on the #C64 Created by kweepa.bsky.social this port not only manages to squeeze all the shareware levels onto 1 disk, it also manages to capture and recreate the true #Wolf3D experience kweepa.itch.io/wolf64 #retrogaming #gaming

I quite enjoy my day job.

Our Y2K Callback 8020 commercial sparked a lot of comments. "I’ll buy it if you remake the commercial with real people instead of AI." So we did. No generated cast. Just a gloriously Y2K commercial brought to life. Pre-Order your Commodore Callback 8020 today: commodore.net/callback

A lovely huge preservation update today! Thanks to @malcseventyfour.bsky.social, 15 previously unpreserved Commodore 64 educational titles from Grolier/Mindflight have now been recovered, including the long sought-after The Story of Miss Mouse and Rhyme Land. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/grol...

Hi! Here are some random Commodore 64 screenshots for you!

BAD APPLE in Impulse Tracker! 🍎🔊🎵

Happy 80th birthday to game designer Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry, Torin’s Passage) – a key figure in the story of Sierra On-Line!