by Indie Retro News | Nov 27, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
This year has just been fantastic for the Amstrad CPC with a ton of Amstrad homebrew games to spoil us, but even though we had all these games such as Blinky’s Scary School for the Amstrad Plus and GX4000, we haven’t finished with the Amstrad just yet. As...
by Indie Retro News | Nov 14, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
When it comes to games such as Meat Boy and VVVVV you just know the game is going to be fun but extremely challenging and sometimes frustrating as hell with broken keyboards and frustrating screams. Well if weren’t able to check out the frustrating yet enjoyable...
by Old School Gamer | Nov 12, 2022 | 1970s, 2020s
A huge text adventure begun by anonymous creators 40 years ago was only completed this year. Jason Dyer has a blog called All the Adventures (opens in new tab) (via RPS (opens in new tab)) where he plans to play and write about every text adventure ever made, from the...
by Old School Gamer | Nov 9, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Press Release
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by Todd Friedman | Nov 6, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s, Press Release
One of the most recognized video game from the early PC days is “The Oregon Trail”. Some say that RPG games that came after were built from the gameplay of “The Oregon Trail”. The original game was released in 1971 for the HP 2100 PC. Almost...
by John McNichol | Nov 4, 2022 | 1970s, Console/Handheld
The Atari 2600 was a wonderful machine for its day. Despite having only 4k at its disposal, its games were etched in the minds and hearts of a generation of gamers. But few of the hundreds of games produced for it had the staying power, reach or influence of...