Balatro set to Shuffle onto Commodore 64
Balatro is a deck-building roguelike that’s played by the player playing poker hands to score points in order to defeat “blinds”. Balatro was released last year, and its reinvention of of a classic card game into a roguelike structure has proven to be both a critical and commercial success, selling ...
what a koinkidink, i chose c64 today as well
Very nice. I've been fighting the urge to start an Apple I version, specifically because it's completely stupid.
Not Apple II. Apple I. A 6502 attached to a TV Typewriter. It did have published software, and quite a few of the games were card games. It'd have to be a completely different experience, because there's no way to update the screen aside from printing new characters and scrolling up.
This looks damn near as good as a C64 version could - and pretty spot-on for the mechanics of the real thing. About the only trick left would be to plasma up the background.