When I was a wee lad - like, properly young, let's call it a gentleman's seven or eight years of age - the world of the Commodore 64 PC was first opened to me. Now, this would have been (given the age range I just provided), the early 90s. Call it 1992 or 93. The Commodore 64 was not, at this time, a computer that people still used, really, but it was the second of two computers that were in my grandfather's work office (the other one was a proper grey block of a PC, running first an MS DOS-based menu, then later on Windows 3.1, and eventually was replaced with a Gateway PC a few years later with a Gateway running Windows 95. I have a lot of memories tied to those as well, but that's not what we're here to talk about today).
The Commodore 64 had been left behind by one of my uncles, who had also thoughtfully left a giant plastic case full of 8 1/4" floppy discs with an absolutely ridiculous amount of pirated Commodore 64 software on them. There may have been one or two legitimate games in there, but my copy of Blue Max definitely was provided by someone who had ignored the chastising message in the code not to crack it. One of my favorite games on that particular PC was a frankly ridiculous game about mowing the lawn using your neighbor's mower that you'd borrowed without his permission. That game was titled Hover Bovver, and if you really want you can play it over here in your browser, bearing in mind of course that it is browser emulation and therefore a bit wonky (you can go full sicko and grab a copy of it to run in a C64 emulator but I would absolutely never do such a thing like point you in the direction of anywhere such repositories exist.
The point is, it all started with this game here:
Ignore the fact that this is from the Atari version of the game, I assure you it basically looks like this on the C64 too. I fucking loved this game, because the premise is silly and your dog friend will occasionally get pissy at you and attack you if its loyalty meter drops too low. Playing it in the janky online emulator I linked earlier, I still like it! It is a top ten Commodore 64 game for me, along with the aforementioned Blue Max, Space Taxi, and seven other titles I can't be arsed to look up at the moment.
Because I posted a link to twitter, and because in doing so I tagged Jeff Minter (thinking "ha, wouldn't it be funny if Jeff Minter read my words about how cool I think his games are, that will definitely not happen"), he has now read this extremely long post about, well, how cool I think his games are. He also was kind enough to inform me that 1. Posh Lawn Panic was just some AI generated nonsense and not actually his next game (damn!) 2. He is going to have news about his new game soon, possibly today soon (woo!).
Plus it turns out you can download and play a copy of Hover Bovver 2, which was made for old PDAs and the beneficiary of a Windows Port on the llamasoft itch.io page over here for whatever you want to pay, even if you want to pay zero dollars.