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Five Superhero Games We’d Love to See Happen
Legacy Comix owner and Old School Gamer Magazine Senior Writer Patrick Hickey Jr. shares his thoughts on five great comic book franchises that would make amazing video games. The Maxx: The art alone in this comic lends itself beautifully to the video game world. Add...
The Last Ninja – Is System 3’s classic game coming to the Atari XL/XE? Here’s a Demo tease!
Way back in 1987, System 3 released one of the greatest action adventure games ever to be made available for the C64. It was none other than 'The Last Ninja', which also saw a number of ports released for the Apple IIGS, MS-DOS, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron ,Apple II,...
Ultimate Play The Game “Sabre Wulf” is getting a C64 remaster, and it looks awesome!
The retro news just keeps on coming this weekend, as earlier today we found out ' Sabre Wulf ' will be coming to the C64 as a full remaster by Genesis Project. Yes indeed this famous game released in 1984 by Ultimate Play the Game, and originally released on the ZX...
Distant Worlds & A New World Concerts!
AWR Music Productions, LLC presents Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, the official symphony concert tour. Launched in 2007, in conjunction with the twentieth anniversary of FINAL FANTASY, Distant Worlds features the music of the great video game series FINAL...
Pak-Men – A Pac-Man clone for the C64 as a preview via Lucas SDM Siudym!
In the early 80s, when video games were just starting their migration from the arcades to the living room, it was common for games programmers to take their inspiration from the more popular arcade games, and so we ended up with a million and one variations on...
Hyperkin Wants To Make The Sega Dreamcast 2
Accessory maker Hyperkin just got everyone's hopes up regarding a follow-up to the Sega Dreamcast – only then to proclaim that, if it got the chance, it would love to make the console happen. The original Dreamcast was Sega's final foray into the world of home...
Mind Blown! As Starfox demo’d on the Sega Genesis/MD!
I always try to get you the latest updates from around world when it comes to games that have been released or are still being developed. Well this latest news story took us by surprise this afternoon, as looking through our Twitter feed, I've come across a mind...
Duke Nukem 4Ever – A prototype build for a scrapped sidescrolling 2D version of Duke Nukem Forever has been recovered!
Apogee Software certainly released some great games in the 90's, games such as Monster Bash, Bio Menace and even our personal favorite Duke Nukem. Well one game you've probably never heard of is the platformer version of Duke Nukem 4Ever. That's because while the game...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Walter Day
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Walter Day who is displayed on card number 95, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Walter is also featured on cards 108, 523, 539, 591, 775, 1000, 1021, 1859, 2133, 2149, 2261, 2292, 2321, 2390 and 2462 (And many...
Retro Gaming Roundup – December 2022
CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST TOPICS COVERED IN THE SHOW Hardware Flashback - (00:00) Dinosaur Pie - (35:47) Guinness Gaming Records - (1:53:31) Martin Galway: Rambo High Score - (1:55:09) Top Ten Swinging Games - (1:59:15) Linus GH: Truck On - (3:16:14) Live News And...
The Retro Hour EP360 – Sega Classics
90's Video Game Shop Memories & Sega Classics We chat to the wonderful James Schall about working at classic gaming shops like Virgin Games and Future Zone, his time as product marketing manager at Sega in the post Dreamcast era, and his current work resurrecting...
KICKSTARTER – “Back of the Box” A 90s Video Game Coloring Book
CLICK HERE FOR KICKSTARTER PAGE Do you remember the thrill of powering on your favorite video game console and embarking on an epic adventure? Take a trip down memory lane with our retro video game coloring book, designed for those who grew up playing classic games....
COMING SOON – It Returned To The Desert – For Steam
Unique mix of turn-based strategy and adventure. Defend the town of Glint Rock against radioactive giant ants! Dr. Mill is a geologist that came to town to examine the recent meteor crash. Now he has to convince the towns folk that something's going on. It Returned to...
Missile Command on the Amstrad CPC+ and GX4000 and it looks pretty decent!
The iconic Atari game Missile Command didn't get the best of ports even on the Amstrad, but that is about to change. As thanks to yet another gaming heads up from Saberman, he has told us that Ayor61 and team, have released a much improved version of the game over to...
Coming Soon for iiRcade – Wizard of Walls
Coming Soon to the iiRcade Wizard Of Walls! "Wizard Of Walls" is a dungeon/maze shooter with retro mechanics inspired by the old arcade classic "Wizard Of Wor". You play a warrior with a laser gun and have to shoot all monsters. If you touch a monster or get shot by a...
Bleeps On Wax: Bushiden Soundtrack
Welcome to Bleeps On Wax, where we look at a variety of Video Game Soundtracks released on vinyl! Bushiden Soundtrack Garoad is back at it with another fantastic game soundtrack. This time, Garoad lends his talents to Bushiden, a soon-to-be-released ninja action...
Last Action Hero – An enhanced(hack) version of a 1994 brawler via AmigaLive!
While I do try to avoid writing on weekends, this was too good not to spread the word! As thanks to both Earok and Saberman letting us know earlier today, they have told us that AmigaLive has made available a hack of the Amiga version of the 1994 game 'Last Action...
Five What-Ifs That Could Have Changed Gaming Forever
The comic book industry isn’t the only one that get to have this much fun. Take a look at five situations that morphed the industry forever and what could have happened if things happened otherwise. Sega Doesn’t Give Up Creating Consoles After the Dreamcast: Sega is...
Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game
Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game In Late Grandmother's Collection As spotted by Gaming Bible, a gamer named KrisReed recently took to Reddit to share a picture of their grandmother's video game collection. However, it appears their late relative apparently...
Dread – WIP Doom clone on the Amiga 500 & Atari ST looks better than ever in this new footage
The upcoming Doom clone of 'Dread' has been featured many times on Indie Retro News, as with every new update the Amiga 500 and Atari ST version looks better than ever with noted changes as fabulous new textures and new zones to visit. Well if you're looking for more...
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand…Pixels?
My oldest brother Richard wasn’t the master of sarcasm that our middle brother Steven was. But he still looked at my game's box with a caustic smirk. “This-“ he said, first looking at the art on the box cover of cover of Atari's Air-Sea Battle... and then looking at...
Five Must-Play Game Boy Titles Besides Pokemon and Tetris
If you love Nintendo’s breakthrough handheld console, you’ll got the staples- Tetris and Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, but with over a thousand titles released, there are a bevy of gems. Here are a few of the best you may have never played. Penguin Wars: It’s...
Gem Blenders, TCG coming to Kickstarter
GEM BLENDERS: A REVOLUTIONARY NEW TRADING CARD GAME After selling through their beta version product, indie game designer Steve Sekula and his team are set to launch the First Edition of the trading card game Gem Blenders this March via Kickstarter. In a game of Gem...
Czolgi – An Atari 2600 Combat inspiration arrives on the C64 via Protovision
Some cool news indeed especially if you grew up on the Atari 2600 as well as the much later Atari 8bit as you'll be interested to hear, that Protovision has released the Commodore 64 game of Czolgi. A new game which is an inspiration to Combat that was first shown at...
