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The year is 2021, and thanks to AGD & his son Nate, Dave Sloan has fulfilled a childhood ambition to make a game for the ZX Spectrum.
He longs to go back to the 80s so he can give his younger self the tools to make some fun little Speccy platform games, so he sets about building a time machine.

The fabric of time is not something to be trifled with however and Dave being Dave, the time machine goes a little wonky.
Due to a misunderstanding relating to the metric system, Dave & Nate get sucked into the time vortex and for reasons unknown the only thing that will save them is collecting 42 Maguffinanium crystals.

This is where you come in, can you save our intrepid duo and prevent an irreparable tear in the space-time continuum?

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Cassette 50 was an infamous collection of games published by Cascade in 1983 and an early example of shovelware, marketed on the basis of sheer quantity rather than the quality or playability of its games. So Phoenix Ware and The RVG Squad created a competition in the hope of creating a brand new compilation tape – with all proceeds after costs to be donated to charity, (this is guaranteed to be a minimum of £5 for every tape sold) – featuring games by C64 developers of all levels of experience, focusing on great gameplay in a mini-game format while still retaining the look or feel of a Cassette 50 game, such as it was!

The Competition ran from December 8th 2020 to March 31st 2021, we was amazed with the level of interest, lots of very good games all having to be created within the confines of some very hard and challenging rules. For those of you that know about coding, you will understand what we mean if you look at the competition page, so with that said, everyone of these games (56 in total) deserve there place on this tape.

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Chiller 2 by Cosine Systems is a multi-level single-screen platform game inspired by the Mastertronic game Chiller.

The aim of the game is to collect 20 crosses on each level while avoiding all sorts of nasty ghouls, witches, and critters that drain your energy when you make contact with them. While you’re at it, make sure you also look out for where you stand as each level is littered with poisonous mushrooms that will also result in a loss of energy.

There are 12 challenging creepy levels for you to complete so I hope you are not afraid of the dark.

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Towards the end of the 11th century, a young crusader named Sir Ababol from Manchester starts off on a venture to Jerusalem. The brave knight travels across the ever-green prairies of French Britain and climbs the infinite heights of the Pyrenees to arrive at Alcoraz River.

Sir Ababol witnesses the courage of St. George from Cappadocia against the infidels and is so astonished from what he sees that he stumbles over a rock, falling into the Alcoraz River that carries him to the Monegros Desert.

When he wakes up, Sir Arabol realises that he has lost his sword. Fearing that his journey to Jerusalem has come to an end, he searches around for the sword when he comes across a farmer tending to his crops.  When he asks the farmer about the whereabouts of his sword, our knight is directed to a land full of Ababol flowers. Sir Ababol is confused but believes the red flowers may be tied to recovering his sword and decides to collect them, hoping to then continue his journey to Jerusalem.

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Metamorphosis is a game about evolving. You start as a spider which is the lowest lifeform in the game. The aim is to evolve into a human in order to complete the game. Increase your energy by eating worms, as your energy level increases, you will evolve into a higher lifeform. Hitting enemies a few times will make them devolve to a lower lifeform until their energy level is zero and then they will end as a worm. The screens are a kind of ecosystem, enemies attacking each other, running away and evolve/devolve.

You have to collect 3 objects and bring them to the central room with the circles. In this room, there is a location to drop the objects into the circles. When all 3 objects are in the circles, a pink teleport to the next level appears.

There are 3 levels to explore. To obtain some objects, you first have to get a Combat room key. If you got the key, a black teleport appears somewhere in the map to enter a combat room.

After entering the combat room, you have to kill all enemies before an object appears.

At the bottom, there is an energy bar. This bar shows your current energy level. Your energy level can be raised by eating worms and is decreased by getting hit by spit or toxic drops. The dots indicate the max energy level at a certain stage. The maximum energy level is increased after you drop an object in the circles. When you have a Combat room key, a small key symbol appears on the left side of the energy bar. If you have an object, a red dot is shown on the left side of the energy bar.

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Phoenix Ware is proud to present Monster Catcher, a previously digital-only release for your C64! Monster Catcher is a fast action, single player game! If you like Rodland, Bubble Bobble, and a little bit of Smash TV then you’ll love Monster Catcher!

Monsters have invaded, and the bunnies are in trouble! Grab your magic wand and use your capture spell to save the day! But careful you don’t trap a bunny by mistake!

** Monster Catcher Features **

Randomly generated levels
40 levels plus an end game boss
4 different areas
9 different enemies with lots of varied behaviours
4 different power ups: lightning bolt, magic boost, shield, and extra life.

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About

The premise is simple – remove all the BlockZ from the screen! How? It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3!

1) Move the BlockZ around the screen… but beware… they can only move in the direction(s) shown on the BlockZ!
2) If the BlockZ come to rest touching one or more other BlockZ then they will all disappear!
3) Remove all BlockZ to complete the level!

Puzzle your way through 50 brain-busting levels! Don’t worry – you’ve got 5 chances to restart if you mess it up!

Also – because we’re nice guys – you can also resume the game from the highest level reached in your current session. However – your score will start at zero (Ok, we’re not that nice!)

48k version includes SFX only
128k version includes SFX and jaunty tunes.

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The object of the game is to make lines of three or more matching vegetables. To do so, you can swap the position of any two vegetables on the play screen by pressing fire then pushing in a direction. Pressing fire again “unlocks” the cursor. When there are no valid moves left then the board is shuffled – until you run out of shuffles, then it’s game over!

Match three vegetables and they are removed from the board, with new shapes dropping down to replace them. Occasionally an immovable block will be dropped. These can only be removed by strategically dropping them until a line of three or more immovable blocks is made. Match four shapes in a row to destroy a full row or line and match five to destroy all matching shapes and get an extra shuffle.

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It’s a tough life being flushed away! Guide young Turdesley in his adventures down the pipe, dodging and shooting all manner of strange nasties with his trusty condo-cannon.

Travel through the worlds ‘Pipe Central’, ‘Skull City’ and ‘The Kingdom of Mighty Two’

Destroy Mighty Two and head to the sea for a well earned holiday.

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You have just discovered the secret path to all the treasures on the rainbow.
Follow the edge of the rainbow and pick up all the gold you can carry.
But beware!! The path to the fortune is trapped with mines.

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