Davide Bottino | Dave's Retro Forge

Space Bash: Contact!! for MSX is now available from: daves-retro-forge.itch.io/space-bash-con…. Feel free to buy us a coffee ko-fi.com/davesretroforge Thank you for playing and supporting us! @Indie_RetroNEWS @dantemendes #msx #retrogaming #rodland

@YamadaFCJP Yeah that is the final boss !

@DavideBottino Bubble Bobble! Is that Super Drunk? This brings back memories 😅

Which arcade game were you actually GOOD at, back in the day? Not just played a lot — genuinely skilled, high score kind of good. #arcade #retrogaming

On C64, multicolor sprites get only 3 colors, 2 of them shared by everyone. Ocean Software chose a drab pair of greys for Toki. I chose brown and yellow instead (just as in Creatures): he's a fire-breathing ape, not a corpse! #c64 #pixelart #juju

@dfilskov probably to make games more difficult, so they could get more quarters 😂

@DavideBottino I was lucky in that regard. I used the same hand for arcade sticks and for handheld joysticks. I've always wondered, though, why arcade layouts have the buttons on the "wrong" side for most people.

@mrmccrac83 I think it was the first arcade game I ever saw

@DavideBottino Probably Galaga

@Clive_Frog_2_0 Original SF2 cab. No I am not envious. Not in the slightest 😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

@DavideBottino Yes, and yes, of course!

@CptSparky360 @CommodoreBlog got it, thanks, I don’t like that either

@DavideBottino @CommodoreBlog As I said, compared to my favourite stick, the Competition Pro(!), the ArcadeR's stick "moves" to wide.

New email from #Commodore this morning with a hint on a new joystick coming? Quickshot 2 Turbo please!🕹

@CptSparky360 @CommodoreBlog I loved the original Tac-2. Also its little brother Slick Stick, I still own two of those and are my main controllers. What’s wrong with the ArcadeR compared to the Tac-2?

@CommodoreBlog I got one some time ago, didn't like it as much as the Competition Pro but can't remember why. Then I got a real TAC-2 which I liked better.... but the fire button doesn't work properly any more. Since I don't like the ArcadeR, too, I guess it's the amplitude of the stick 🤔

Tac-2 please

@Wanax12 @FREEZE64UK Absolutely lovely 🤩

Tiny Quest II is still alive! You thought it was dead? I’ve got tons of work to do, and TQII now comes first. Once all the sprites are ready, we’re blasting off full speed. #C64 #Commodore64

@Clive_Frog_2_0 Awesome! You mean the whole cabinet? Have you still got it?

@DavideBottino Both. I won an arcade machine in '93 playing SF2.

@dfilskov I was rather poor at using an arcade joystick with my left hand most of the time. Too used to hold the C64 joystick in my left hand and push directions with my right one

@DavideBottino None 😬 - it cost too much & I soon got a C64 for gaming/creativity back then & later Amiga. A few years ago I did get OK at Bomb Jack, though (using my #MiSTerFPGA arcade), but not like my skilled arcade gamer friends. I might be better than them at Tetris nowadays, though 🙂

@dantemendes It was cool to see After Burner in the arcade scene in Terminator 2

@dantemendes Never saw that in the flesh, unfortunately. Played G-Lock though while on a school trip, very impressive, but I sucked at it😂

@Clive_Frog_2_0 Where you also good vs humans at SF2 or only played against the CPU?

@DavideBottino Shinobi, Street Fighter 2.

@MuseumCommodore Creatures would definitely deserve a comeback on C64

@DavideBottino They were stunning to look at challenging too.

What still amazes me in Creatures 1 and 2 is how much personality those characters (and backgrounds too!) have. Animations, great use of colours and tons of little details make a completely crazy fantasy world feel alive and... believable!. #c64

@newIapetus @thegeps74 Thank you my friend! I really wanted to go beyond the classic "simple blocks" style platforms, very typical of this kind of fixed screen arcade games.

@DavideBottino @thegeps74 Looks amazing. For example the platform blocks are awesome you use the msx1 attribute restrictions to great effect.

Back when I solo-developed games with The Games Factory, I prototyped and iterated A LOT. On MSX, where @thegeps74 writes the code and has to sweat bullets to push Space Bash as far as the system allows, I focus even more on design to reduce rewrites to a minimum. #msx #gamedev

@alimede_info Bei tempi davvero: i primi cd in allegato, il forum tgm online, i contest…me li sono goduti parecchio

@DavideBottino TGM, che ricordi... Io avevo mandato un paio di progetti alla rubrica Talent Scout..

Before any of this, in 2004, I made a Bomberman-style game called MaxBlaster with The Games Factory. It starred the editors of Italian magazine The Games Machine as playable characters — "Max" was Reynaud, editor-in-chief at the time. My first published game, over 20 years ago.

@PeterAusti61402 It’s just an hobby and I like to make the games I want to play, so mostly conversions, remasters and clones/spiritual sequels of arcade games I loved as a teenager.

@DavideBottino Did you make an original game yet, or just clones of existing games..?