For your dashboard, knew it for some time but forgot to mention it, ideal for a quick game, e.g. of Cracker, the Eurogamer christmas gift i mentioned, you can find the widget here

As I could iceskate in front fo my door today, it is time to give some attention to wintersports. Stadium 64 is the site for all sports games on the C64. It has a special section devoted to wintersports.

Me skating


Winter games C64. The C64 is easily emulated on the Mac with Power 64



And today Nintendo released the Icehockey game Blades of Steel for the Virtual Console and Eurogamer gives away a special ZX Spectrum christmas game, Cracker

On december 8th the second edition of Games in Concert is in Utrecht's Vredenburg music centre. Here the Mario Bros theme performed by the Metropole Orchestra last year

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