The Outrageous Chronicle

This is a collection of blogs & articles , youtube & twitch videos and any other documentation about OUTRAGE.

We try to make it as comprehensive as possible.

In case your article or any other contribution is missing please feel free to contact me!

Awards

Winner - Best Games 2020

Very nice personal Top5 of C64 game releases in 2020 by Youtuber Kite666G with OUTRAGE rated number 1.

“I know there where many exellent games this year but this game really took me back to the golden years of the Commodore when i was a kid. Thank you for making this gem of a game.”
Kite666G

Silver Medal - RVG Game of the Year

Retro Video Gamer nominated 10 finalists for Commodore 64 and for ZX Spectrum for its annual Game of the Year 2020 Award. The list has been curated by RVG, RGN, Planeta Sinclair, Reset64, Hayesmaker64, and many more.

OUTRAGE achieved the fantastic silver medal with 28,31% very close behind the winner Millie & Molly from Carleton Handley / Bitmap Soft & BoBr Games with 28,92%. MW Ultra from Protovision & Psytronik took 3rd place with 20,48%.

Nominations

RGN Gamers Choice Award

These 20 finalists of Retro Gamer Nation’s C64 Gamers’ Choice Award of 2020 have been curated by RGN and the results were determined by popular vote.

OUTRAGE made it into the TOP 10 and scored with 63 votes a remarkable 6th place within the strong competitor field. The honorable winners are:

place – Zeta Wing (144 votes)
place – Fix-it-Felix Jr (101 votes)
place – Millie & Molly (90 votes)

IRN - C64 Game Awards 2020

Indie Retro News nominated the “cracking AAA beating games with amazing physical releases in 2020 and stunning artwork. These will be remembered along with the very best games ever made for the C64.”

OUTRAGE was placed within the Game of the Year category together with Milly & Molly, MW Ultra and Hired Sword 2. We solute the category winners:

Game of the year: MW Ultra (Protovision & Psytronik)
Budget Game of the year: Zeta Wing (Sarah Jane Avory)
Genius of the year award: Fix it Felix Jr. (Steve Day)

Videos, Gameplays and Playthroughs

Honestly that was exactly the review I was hoping for so much. A comparison between my great inspiration the classic C64 Thalamus game Hawkeye and OutRage. Fantasticly edited and commented by BastichB 64K .

Thanks mate, that really meant a big honor to me!

Best comment by Jeroen Tel (famous Hawkeye sound composer) telling that he was in the age of 15 (!) when doing it – WTF this C64 legend is MY AGE!

First full playthrough without trainers mastered by Old Style Gaming.

“This one was just the right level of difficulty/strategy to be enjoyable as some games become a real chore on the really hard levels. You got everything right on this game mate and every c64 fan should defo play it!”
Old Style Gaming

Reviews and Articles

These international retrogaming platforms have been reviewing OUTRAGE in their blog articles:

Revenge! Finally. Outrage Review and Interview written by Georg Fuchs of LOTEK64
- “The praise Outrage received in many Commodore 64 forums and publications is well deserved. If you are looking for a challenging game which offers more than non-stop shooting action, this is for you.”
- This very comprehensive article includes an extensive game review that covers many different aspects of the game and its genesis, lots of screenshots and an exclusive interview with the OUTRAGE creator Bernd Buchegger.
- The article is in German. The english translation has been published in the vandalism.news market.
Outrage Review by Markus Karp of GGGames
- “Outrage is “likely [Cosmos Designs’] last release”, so it’s a C64-treasure like few others in the category of games that almost were forever lost.”
- “It looks really, really good. Hawkeye-good, if you will…! (And in some ways even better…)”
- “Getting such a well-made C64-game as Outrage in 2020 must be considered a luxury for anyone who enjoyed these types of classics back in the days.”
Italian review Outrage – Recensione C64 from Paolo Besser of The Games Machine
- First to mention Duke Nukem Forever and Cyberpunk 2077 as both games having been significantly long in development but nothing compared to the 30 years of OUTRAGE.
- Rates Outrage a rock-solid 7.6 Score for suberb graphics and sound.
Fabulous floppy disk-based magazine Vandalism News features OUTRAGE in Vandalism News #71
Indie Retro News writes Outrage- After 30 years a fabulous ‘Hawkeye’ style game is coming to the C64!
RetroGamerNation announces upcoming Protovision C64 games – Planet X2.1 & Outrage
Norwegan Article Etter 30 år er C64-spillet Outrage endelig lansert by Joachim Froholt from spillhistorie.no
French article Outrage ne fait pas offense au Commodore 64 from Guillaume Verdin of Le Mag MO5
Polish retro computing magazine K&A plus featured an OUTRAGE review in their issue#18.

Print Coverage

This is the collected print coverage featuring articles that mention OUTRAGE

1993 – 64erMagazin_1993_07-BoederCompetition_Announcement
- including the C64 competition announcement (pages 15-17, German)
1993 – 64erMagazin_1993_12-BoederCompetition_Winners
- declaring the C64 competition winners OUTRAGE, Cosmox and Genloc (page 102, German)
2005 – CEVI-Aktuell_2005-07
- including an Interview with Protovision by Boris Kretzinger (page 3, German)
2009 – CEVI-Aktuell_2009-03
- with a Protovision story by Milo Mundt, Jakob Voos, Stefan Gutsch and Jan Böttcher
  (page 9, German, 7MB!)
2021 – ZZAP! 64 Micro
- published a cover story about Cosmos Designs in their brandnew ZZAP! 64 Micro Issue#1
- including a full OUTRAGE review scoring a fantastic overall rating of 79%
- with a timeline of all our games including IMPEROID – a game we never made or simply forgot …