Old School Gamer Celebrates 5 Years and Wants to Raise It’s Game

by Old School Gamer | Sep 8, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Press Release About Kickstarter Old School Gamer has been publishing it’s retro gaming magazine for the last five years.  Covering video gaming from its beginnings in the 1970s until the late 1990s, Old School had published 29 issues and is due for it’s 30th issue to...

Black Dawn Rogue – The next Amiga AGA game in the Black Dawn Saga gets another tease

by Indie Retro News | Aug 5, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured many Dungeon Crawlers on Indie Retro News, from Black Dawn Rebirth which is a high grade crawler as the 7th episode of the Black Dawn Dungeon Crawler/RPG series by Colin Vella, Shaun Watters, Ten Shu and Mike Richmond. To ‘ The Shadows of...

Five Retro Game Industry Standards We’d Love to See Come Back

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 22, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Lists

The video game industry sure has changed since the ‘70s and ‘80s right? With micro-transactions and DLC, games change throughout development and release- a far cry from the old days. In this exclusive list, we old birds at Old School Gamer share five things we’d love...

Riviera Story – A new arcade platformer is previewed for the C64 by Bladawietz

by Indie Retro News | Jul 12, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Even more C64 games to get through today, as trawling through the CSdb database we’ve come across a new C64 game as a preview called ‘Riviera Story’ by Bladawietz(?). This game available to try, looks to be an Arcade platformer in which you play as...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Air-Sea Battle?

by Derek Slaton | Jul 11, 2022 | 1970s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1977 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: Target Fun Model #: CX2602 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Larry Kaplan Given that this is one of the earliest 2600 games to be released, it comes as no surprise...

Krillin and The Castle of 7 Daggers – Play as Krillin in this new Dragon Ball inspired ZX Spectrum game

by Indie Retro News | Jul 7, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Another retro gaming news story has appeared in our inbox, as Saberman was kind enough to let us know through Facebook, that if you’re looking for a Dragon Ball inspired platformer for your ZX Spectrum, then you might like to play Junterlart’s new speccy...