It started with an Oric 1

In the early 1980s, home computers arrived with a keyboard, a BASIC prompt, and not much else. If you wanted a game, you often typed it in yourself, line by line, from a magazine listing, and learnt to program along the way.

That's how Oric64 Games began, decades before it had a name. Our founder learnt to program on an Oric 1 and later an Oric Atmos: 8-bit machines from Oric Products International with 48K of RAM, chunky keycaps, and a rainbow stripe on the case. The name and logo are a tribute to those machines and that era.

The games we make reflect the ones we played then, card games, arcade classics, rebuilt with modern polish and the options the originals never had. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Our first game is completely free; future games will be a single lifetime payment with free upgrades and bug fixes after that.

We've done a lot of travelling over the years, but now these games are being built about 2 miles from where I grew up and learnt to write code with an Oric 1 that was plugged into the family telly.