About
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.
To learn more about each individual game and its developer please visit our submissions page on itch.io HERE
The Games
A MAZING QUAD RACE
Arcade Baseball!
Asterocrash
Balloon Caves
Battleships
Big Time Bugger
Bloop
Boom
Boxnightmare
breakdance
Bullshit
Centered
Circles
Copy Cat
Defuse
Don’t Block The Box
Eggs
Floaty Balloon
Frog! Aargh
Froop
Gardening vs. Global Warming
GDM HangMan
GET OUT!
Katics 4k
Kiteee
Lamentable Soccer
Lil Adventure
Lil’ Red Hatchback
Line ‘Em Up
Lockdown
Loopy
Mastermind
Ms Lily’s Haunted Shop
My Balls Are Dropping
Over Take C64
Package Delivery
Pancakes
Panic In The Bank
Para Lander Mini
Petscii Cave
PETSCII Pete
PETSCIIPede
Psion Attack 2021
Red Is Blue
Rocket Away
Rogue4k
SCIIAMBLE
Ski
STAR TREK: Last Hope
Tents and Trees
Textris
TinyBubbles
Txt Advntre
Whack-a-mole
World Cup Horseracing
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The overall winner of the competition was TinyBubbles, a game worth of a release in its own right.
Who are we
The RVG Squad is a group of likeminded game creators, members that want the comfort of being part of a group but minus the pressure that some would place upon game creation. Our motto is purely “Come for the Game Creation, Stay for the Friends”.
The charity we have chosen is Special Effect, they are a charity that uses specialist technology to enhance the quality of life of people of all ages who have severe physical challenges, whether as a result of a disability, traumatic injury or debilitating illness.
