Pit-Fall – A Boulder Dash (Prequel?) lost and found for the Atari XL/XE!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 27, 2023 | 1980s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

We’ve featured the 1984 Boulder Dash game many times now, from the release of Boulder Dash Junior II The Final Dig, to Boulder Dash Senior and even the more recent version on the VIC20. But now as something slightly different, we’ve just found out by...

Evercade Breaks Into The Charts!

by Old School Gamer | Jun 25, 2023 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Press Release

Evercade Team17 Collection 1 Breaks Into the UK Charts! The Evercade community is currently enjoying their first taste of Amiga gaming on Evercade with Team17 Collection 1! 10 great games from the UK publisher are here, highlighting their beginnings and rise to...

Xevious is coming to the Commodore Amiga 1200 via JOTD and it looks super cool! (Preview Available)

by Indie Retro News | Jun 17, 2023 | 1980s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

As I said before in my previous article from last month. There’s one type of genre that I loved playing in the arcades and more so on my home console, and that is the shoot em up genre! You know the type, enemy waves coming at you at all sides, your ship...

Super Star Trek – 1970s source code of the 80 column printer terminal based simulation, converted to many 8bit systems!

by Indie Retro News | Jun 13, 2023 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Fancy a new game for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Plus/4 or Vic-20, then you’ve come to the right place! As thanks to a heads up by a good friend of ours in our inbox, we’ve learnt of a classic treky game that has been...

Antstream Arcade Twitch Superstar: Mappyman

by Antstream Blog | Jun 12, 2023 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Antstream

In our latest Antstream Arcade Twitch Superstar feature, we chat with another one of the wonderful people spreading the retro gaming glory of Antstream Arcade via streaming platforms. This week, we proudly present Mappyman, AKA Scott, answering questions on his gaming...

Atari’s SwordQuest: What Went Wrong? [Part I]

by John McNichol | Jun 9, 2023 | 1980s, Atari, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Console/Handheld

Atari’ Swordquest Series: What Went Wrong? Part I   On the face of things, Swordquest looked like the idea that couldn’t miss. It had elements that had never been done before in videogames, but that had the recipe for success that had worked time and again in...