C64 Book Kickstarter

Optimus Prime

In the vein of the megadrive book and the recent artcade book on kickstarter, here is another one. C64 Visual Commpendium.

Looks great and Tim Nichols who is doing the Artcade book is helping this guy out too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium-by-bitmap-books

o1s1n

Great to see more of these books coming out.

I was never really a C64 fan but wouldn't mind picking one up out of interest.

Optimus Prime

Commodore 64 was my first games machine, lots of good memorys playing it so definitely getting this one. Thats 3 of these books ive backed in the last few months. They look great though.

CathalDublin

still waiting on the artcade one, supposedly shipping in 4-6weeks now

eddhorse

Thanks, spotted that a while back alright. Backed it.
£5,825 of £20,000 so far.

DoctorEdgeWild

Would love to see one of these projects for the BBC Micro which was my first computing/gaming experience. I don't think it would have anywhere near the appeal of the C64/Mega Drive etc. though.

Ordering a copy of the Mega Drive one now for a friend.

djsim101

Going to back this also, was thinking about backing the £60 quid to get the cart, a lot of money though.

I still play my C64 and its my first true love, sorry wife :pac:

o1s1n

As the cart is limited to 100 I'd say it'll only rise in value, probably not a bad investment if you're that way inclined.

djsim101

Was thinking the same way, although I am a collector, I have never sold anything yet, just can't bring myself to do it.

o1s1n

Haha, Tell me about it! So many times I've bought things thinking 'yeah! this'll only go up in value!', only to sell absolutely none of it.

kc66

I have been playing Hexagon for the last hour after reading that Kickstarter. Cool game.

eddhorse

I went for the cart anyways, feck it, might as well !

eddhorse

@MrSidC64: 10K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love you all :-)


@MrSidC64: Only 35 copies left of Micro Hexagon by @paulko64 They are going fast! http://t.co/GUNVPzDujK

eddhorse

Kickstarter a Quote :

I have just edited the main description with some exciting new updates!

On Friday I received emails from Gary Penn (Zzap!64), Dan Phillips (Armalyte) and Stephen Thompson (S.I.T), all kindly offering to write in the book. Now, as you know, the book won't have 'many' words but it is great to have such industry legends involved. These new writers now add to existing contributors; Robin Hogg (Zzap!64), Stoo Cambridge (Sensible Software), Paul Koller and Andy Roberts (Commodore Format). Even industry legend and backer of this project, Mevlut Dinc has kindly offered to contribute which is very exciting. Having such great names involved with the book obviously adds a lot of kudos to the campaign and will massively enhance the final book! Check out some examples below of how the writing will look and also some new spread designs!! Please note that this is just placeholder text to give an idea of how the final thing will look.

More info here : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium-by-bitmap-books/posts/802138

Doge

Really hope there are full pages of art from the Last Ninja 1 and 2.

Those games are graphically the best games that came out on the C64,

especially the 2nd one, the amount of detail and realism is sublime, down to each and every pixel.

This is my favourite scene from the 1st game:

eddhorse

The Last Ninja music was also awesome, looking forward to it all.

eddhorse

I think Retr0 will like this : (think he 1 coined it)