{"id":13541,"date":"2024-02-29T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/the-commodore-64-collection-3-review-retro-console-serves-up-old-favourites-in-fine-style\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:40:27","slug":"the-commodore-64-collection-3-review-retro-console-serves-up-old-favourites-in-fine-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/the-commodore-64-collection-3-review-retro-console-serves-up-old-favourites-in-fine-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commodore 64 Collection 3 review \u2013 retro console serves up old favourites in fine style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blaze Entertainment; Evercade consoles<br \/><\/strong>Paradroid, Boulder Dash and Break Dance are among the classic C64 games repackaged for the 21st century in this weird but lovely compilation<\/p>\n<p>It is an odd feeling having an unremitting barrage of childhood memories fired at you by a game cartridge no larger than a matchbox. That\u2019s certainly been my experience of the C64 Collection 3, the latest in a series of vintage gaming compilations assembled by Blaze Entertainment for its Evercade retro consoles. Each of these little carts contains a dozen or so classic titles from various arcade manufacturers and home computers, all emulated to a pretty high standard. This one, for me, and I suspect a lot of other C64 veterans, is unmissable \u2013 for several reasons.<\/p>\n<p>One is that it contains what I think is one of the greatest home computer games ever made: Paradroid. It\u2019s a top-down multidirectional sci-fi blaster by Hewson, beautifully styled, fiendishly difficult and with one of the earliest examples of the now ubiquitous hacking mini-game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/feb\/29\/c64-collection-3-review-blaze-entertainment-evercade-console\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b5b3707cbae839bab64469d4d1e34ab3757a39ee\/0_30_1200_720\/master\/1200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0eee59c0e0bbddec3b085c43f8c4be26\" title=\"The Commodore 64 Collection 3 review \u2013 retro console serves up old favourites in fine style\" \/>Blaze Entertainment; Evercade consolesParadroid, Boulder Dash and Break Dance are among the classic C64 games repackaged for the 21st century in this weird but lovely compilation<br \/>\nIt is an odd feeling having an unremitting barrage of childhood memories fired at you by a game cartridge no larger than a matchbox. That\u2019s certainly been my experience of the C64 Collection 3, the latest in a series of vintage gaming compilations assembled by Blaze Entertainment for its Evercade retro consoles. Each of these little carts contains a dozen or so classic titles from various arcade manufacturers and home computers, all emulated to a pretty high standard. This one, for me, and I suspect a lot of other C64 veterans, is unmissable \u2013 for several reasons.<br \/>\nOne is that it contains what I think is one of the greatest home computer games ever made: Paradroid. It\u2019s a top-down multidirectional sci-fi blaster by Hewson, beautifully styled, fiendishly difficult and with one of the earliest examples of the now ubiquitous hacking mini-game. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze Entertainment; Evercade consolesParadroid, Boulder Dash and Break Dance are among the classic C64 games repackaged for the 21st century in this weird but lovely compilation It is an odd feeling having an unremitting barrage of childhood memories fired at you by a game cartridge no larger than a matchbox. That\u2019s certainly been my experience &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/29\/the-commodore-64-collection-3-review-retro-console-serves-up-old-favourites-in-fine-style\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Commodore 64 Collection 3 review \u2013 retro console serves up old favourites in fine style<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}