DOUBLE BABOON NINJA – This upcoming Arcade game by Danlabg for the Amiga looks fab [Version 7a UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | Jun 4, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Fancy playing a new Commodore Amiga game that smacks of high quality, is fun to play, and well worth keeping an eye on as developments progress, then this game called ‘Double Baboon Ninja’ by Danlabg is just the game for you. An upcoming Arcade game in...

Museum Games #2 Staging Microhistory in Tampere & Frisco

by Raiford Guins | May 27, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

Over 5,000 miles separate the Finnish Museum of Games (Suomen Pelmuseo) located in Tampere from the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Frisco, Texas. The city of Frisco is the result of early 20th century railroad expansion, taking its name from the St. Louis-San...

Something’s amiss in the US. Part 2

by Raiford Guins | May 27, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

Clear-eyed at last, I found myself cataloguing the differences. Not between Athens and Heraklion, or between riot cops and farmers, but between what I’d been shown and what I’d been denied. The teargas had been indiscriminate — it didn’t care whether you were a...

Breakout on Cassette: When Apple II Games Came Screeching Out of a Tape Player

by William Winter | May 13, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, Apple 2, Retro Computing

Some early computer artifacts feel almost impossible to explain today. The original Apple II cassette of Breakout, written in Integer BASIC by Steve Wozniak, is one of them. Yes, distributed on cassette. Not a floppy disk, a cartridge, or a download. A cassette. The...

Empire Strikes Back – A C64 fan version by Megastyle has been released and it looks mighty impressive

by Indie Retro News | May 4, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Well, it’s that time of year again when we all suddenly become sci-fi nerds and amusingly misquote Star Wars for 24 hours, so to celebrate the geek in-joke turned global holiday that is Star Wars Day, we present you a brand new game for the C64 which is sure to excite...

MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School

by Marcus Albers | Apr 29, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Apple 2, C64 Vic20, Early IBM DOS

The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn’t realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota...