Games like Rings of Saturn (C64) by Sander Alsema

--- Zombie Menace --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2026. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description --- Graveyard shift at the cemetery. Brian O'Donnelly took a swig from his hip flask. Nineteen years of loyal service to the force, and for what? It seemed like everybody got ahead at some point, except for him. Yesterday was a new low. A co…

--- No Fly Zone --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2024. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- Up till now you had it fairly easy. Stationed in sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, your job mainly consisted in drinking coffee while watching pitch-black computer screens monitoring open space. Sometimes you even wondered whether they were sw…

--- Panzerjaeger --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2025. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- The days of peace are a distant memory. Intense fighting on both sides has led to a death toll of unprecedented proportions. Somewhere in all this carnage a tank battalion was on manoeuvres. Unfortunately however, during the night…

--- Maternal Instinct --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2022. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- In ancient China, farmers and dragons could peacefully coexist. Of course there were some minor issues, but usually these could be easily overcome with a little mutual understanding. This all changed when the farmers let greed in…

--- Amphibian Assault --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2024. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- Where did things go wrong? You just went out to run some errands, and now look what happened. Lost in a swamp somewhere in the middle of the night. A quite harrowing predicament to be in for a mere firefly. Uneasily you try to f…

--- A is for Aardvark --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2025. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- While wandering through the savannah, Kevin suddenly feels an appetite building up. If he were a human being, then he would have had a serious problem. Kevin, however, is not a human being but an aardvark. For him the ab…

--- Capitalist Pig --- Written by Sander Alsema for the 10-liner competition 2021. Language: Commodore 64 Basic v2 Category: PUR-80 --- Description & Instructions --- On a farm in the poorest part of the country lives Francis the pig. By a stroke of luck he has the opportunity to gather a decent amount of cash. Usually farm animals don't know the value of money. This is where you come in. Help Fr…

# Roguelike 10 This game was written for the Basic 10-Liner Contest 2023 in the PUR-80 category. It's written for Commodore 64/128 computers. ## Aim of the game As in all rogue-like games, your aim is to explore as many randomly generated dungeons as possible, not get slain and find as much gold as you can carry! With joystick in port 2, your hero character can move and attack only in 4 direction…

This game was written for the Basic 10-Liner Contest 2024 in the PUR-80 category. It's written for Commodore 64/128 computers. Aim of the game In this game, you control Dan who once used to play in a sandbox. By following his passion he become a great digger. Help him to find as many diamonds as you can by digging holes down. In order to get out to the surface, you can use a ladder by pressing fir…

--= ZX STOCK EXCHANGE =-- System Requirements: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k/48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next  Written by Matthew Begg for the 2025 BASIC 10-Liner Competition (PUR-80 category) Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Players: 1 --= INTRODUCTION =-- It is July 1982. Welcome to the frenetic trading floor of the ZX Stock Exchange. The air crackles with the buzz of hurried transactions and the staccato rhythm of …